wk 9: Compression-succession!

Captains log, Star date 569705: I finally managed to compress the files so that they became upload-able. Strangely enough combining them made a smaller file size than any single separate file! Bizarre I know. Anyway enjoy: (my appologies for the length as it took about 3 hours for the full version to not-load and crash at about 20% of the way through, but heres a taster anyway!)



Also to go into more detail on an earlier blog I have added a screen shot of what I did in flash in order to get accurate representations in terms of timing the lighting to the songs.



The reason I used Flash was to find out where each beat on each song corresponded in terms of frames. It can't be done (to my knowledge) in 3Ds because you can't import sound tracks, so I chose to use Flash. What I did was to import all four tracks into the library, then I put the sound on its own layer and made sure that Flash's frame rate was set to 30 like 3Ds max. Then I played the song over and over until I had a blank keyframe for each beat. After this I just put the word light on each keyframe that landed on a beat so that when I played it again it was easier to see whether the flashing Omni light would fit to the beat.