Make MV whole course with FLASH5

Online appear with Flash Music video, more and more friends are fascinated by this kind of creative way, the songs they like to make MV to friends or their own appreciation, in the works after the completion of the experience of their labor, while allowing their own Flash skills further, can be said to be a lot of benefits, No wonder many of the Flash charts are now MV works. (Figure 1)

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MADONNA "Music" may be you do not understand, there is no way, I would like to talk about it! MV Needless to say, Flash is now very hot things, three-year-old children know. And the MV used for it is different from what we see on TV. Because Flash is based on vector technology, mainly for network transmission, then we can't add a lot of bitmaps or video, so you can understand as a cartoon. Music with a certain picture to complete! Of course, the appropriate subtitles may also be required.

Since it is MV, then the music is very important, in the beginning of production, preparation should be done well. Put the song files and related materials, such as picture lyrics, etc. all sorted out! And then we can start doing it. First of all, the music must be the whole song, so that the complete, song file is generally MP3 format, because Flash version 5.0 provides a direct introduction to the MP3 function, here is not detailed, if the other format can be used soundforge such as audio editing software format conversion. When the music is ready, consider the match between the picture and the music. Foreign works pay attention to the combination of picture and music. In the country, most authors like to add subtitles, so you need to master the synchronization with the lyrics! This is a common problem in the production of MV.

In the image, you can introduce a number of bitmaps, but too many words will seriously affect the download speed, and flash to do the MV and the traditional MV meaning is completely different, do not be realistic and cause the file too large. Converting a picture to a vector format is a good solution, and it also reflects Flash art in another way. Because the flash itself easy to draw the weak, although 5.0 joined the Bezier curve, we can use third-party software to achieve, in the bitmap vector aspect, the recommended use of Adobe Streamline 4.0, it is a professional bitmap vector mapping tool, provides a rich transformation settings. The converted graphics can be stored as standard *. AI format. Let's take a look at the contrast effect after the conversion. (Figure 2)

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In Figure 2, the leftmost image is the original, the middle is converted to a multiple-color vector, and the rightmost is converted to a monochrome vector graph. The whole process was completed with streamline 4.0 less than three minutes. You can imagine the amount of work done with Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw to outline such a path. The software runs the interface as shown below. (Figure 3)

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Figure three Adobe Streamline 4.0 run interface. You can see that with the Adobe series of software style unified, users can quickly start, unfortunately only open *. PSD and *. TIF, rather than support the popular *. JPG, does not even support the standard *. Bmp. But the function is still very good. In the conversion setup item under its Options menu, we can set the details of the conversion curve precision, line capacity and so on. In Setting, there are a number of conversion modes built into the selection. is one of the necessary tools for Flash users. A trial version can be planted in the www.adobe.com. In this way, while reducing the size of the work, we have created another style, the art of Flash. After all, Flash is not a video editing tool, our work is not sold on CD, because the network to spread, because to play the advantages of vector animation. This, in the foreign MV Works "DDB" in a very good embodiment. (Figure 4)

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Of course, the benefits of so many vectors are not against your introduction of bitmaps in your work, because in certain situations we need bitmaps to match the effects. For the operation of the graphics to understand the scene in the MV film to consider the match, with the music and the beauty of the picture, the current use of flash creation of MV in this point can be divided into two categories, one is through the changing picture (picture text, etc.), with the music to achieve results, the other kind of characters to show, Through the characters ' movements, expressions and so on to match the music, lyrics and so on! Characters are usually cartoon, in which the way of the people's performance is more complex, the first requirement that the author has a higher basis for painting, because these specific things difficult to find in the material library, need to draw their own, followed by the author has a certain animation basis, master the most basic Flash operations friends know that in flash changes are divided into two kinds, Motion changes and Shape changes. and cartoon characters, such as reaching for a cup to drink water action. It is more difficult to perform such a movement with Motion and Shape. So we need to draw each of the successive motions. The character type MV's work protagonist appears a series of movements all need to draw out independently, if involves to the facial expression part to be more complicated! For example, some senior users want to perform the mouth of singing. This increases the difficulty of making. The work "I do Run" belongs to the typical character MV. (Figure 5)

Figure 5

If you are confident that you can draw the contents of Figure 4 and Figure 5 in Flash with your bare hands then you can try with a solid foundation, if you do not have self-confidence, you can start from the scene change class first. MV works so popular, like to do so many friends, it has its own advantages! For primary works, making is relatively simple. Because unlike interactive works, you have to consider a lot of control items, press the twist jump, scene switching and Actions, and so on. The production of MV is only to find a song to import, and then follow the music to go, and gradually make the screen, the basic use of Motion and Shape can be completed, and not involved in other more complex things. 　　If there are subtitles, the difficulty is to match the lyrics with the music well. Speaking of which, let's look at the audio problem! Because many friends in the country to do MV General choice pop songs, but also like to add lyrics subtitles, all many people have this question, subtitles and music is not the same step. How can this problem be solved? One of the ways is to stop using subtitles! (Ah, who threw the bricks!) There is to start with the work, first of all to understand the audio in Flash working mode, the next works to make Loading, because MV works include the entire song, in addition to the screen, the general file is relatively large, so do Loading is necessary, this is the premise of sound word synchronization. After you import the music file into flash and drag the scene from the Library panel, you can set it up in the sound panel. (Figure 6)

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Sound panel

In the sound panel, the Effect item is to set the sound effect, we do not discuss here, and the key is the sync item, the down arrow next to the point can see the Start, Stop, Stream three options. If you choose Start, the sound starts playing from the first frame you insert and remains relatively independent from the TimeLine, even if the movie ends, TimeLine stops, and continues playing until the music is finished if the sound is not played. The stop item stops the specified sound. To do MV, we have to select the stream of this item, specify the sound to stream playback, that is, Flash playback mode, network transmission how much play, stop transmission is stopped playing, always with TimeLine keep synchronized, because to maintain playback continuity, so just say do Loading 　　Also very necessary, you can wait for all the film loaded after the start playing! In the production, TimeLine start a few frames empty out to do loading, then insert the sound, and then edit the animation, until the end of the song. After editing the animation we can calculate the total number of films, and then add subtitles, the process is more troublesome, but also time-consuming, but after synchronization will not be a problem. For example (Figure 7)

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Audio and subtitles

From the figure can be seen, when the selection of audio Stream mode playback, audio is always consistent with the timeline, when the text in the subtitle layer as long as the master timeline time can be synchronized! In fact, these problems are caused by the network transmission process, I met a friend said that his works after the browsing is very synchronized, can be uploaded to the Internet is not synchronized, how also get bad. In fact, all you have to do is to turn on the Flash online Help and see the instructions in it, which are explained in detail in the online Help.

After all this work is done, you have to think about the creative issues. This is actually everyone's problem, it is impossible to read an article or a book to learn, only from the production of accumulated experience and see other people's outstanding works to draw. This article for the use of flash production MV made a general introduction, due to limited experience, deficiencies are inevitable, hope to help friends.

Finally, I wish you a satisfying work!