[Aaron]

THIS METHOD IS BETA! I've only actually done it a couple of times.
This is intended for folks trying to do screencasts.

1. Download and install Audacity to record your voice. Do NOT use Windows Sound recorder, as it generates improperly formed WAV files, which will cause a problem later.

2. Download and install SWF Tools

3. Get Audacity ready to record your voice. (Figure this part out yourself) It wouldn't hurt to do a test recording to make sure it's working - you wouldnt want to talk for 5 minutes only to find out that you didn't have the mic plugged in or something. Move Audacity out of your way, but keep that red record button ready.

4. Get Wink ready to record the screen. (Figure this part out yourself)

5. Now, you have to be quick here: hit Audacity's record button and then hit Shift+Pause to start Wink recording.

6. Screencast away.

7. To stop, hit Alt+Shift+Pause to stop Wink, and Audacity's square yellow Stop button. SAVE both files now.

8. Render the swf and web page in wink. You'll want to make a version that starts playing automatically, and I doubt you'd want to have callouts and buttons to pause the playback of the screencast, as the audio won't stop until it's done (I think?)

Here's where the magic happens:

9. Copy the swf file to C:\swftools and rename it demo.swf.

10. Copy wav file Audacity made to C:\swftools and rename it audio.wav

11. Go to Start\Run, type

[narayan]

Excellent!

BTW some tips for those who are new to Audacity: It allows complete editing of the sound-track. (examples: joining tracks, splitting tracks, replace some unwanted sound with silence, increase/decrease the volume of certain part, etc.)

So you do not have to worry about creating a perfect sound track in your first attempt: just be your natural self and record the track. If there are any problems, just ignore them and finish the main track, and save it. Then record additional tracks where you had problems, and save them too. Finally prepare the final track using Audacity. Nothing is wasted.

If your recording setup does not record high-quality sound, you can even improve the sound quality using Audacity (to some extent).

[sir-archimedes]

I just coded a little tool that does exactly what Aaron proposed: you can choose your audio-file, your Wink-presentation-file. Then push the button "Combine" and the tool combines the files to one swf-File with video and sound!

You need the swftools installed.

I offer the program as open-source under the LGPL-license. You can download the executable and the delphi-sourcecode at

http://www.dbedv.de/software/downloads/

I'm looking forward to some comments of you

Regards,
Dominik

[Guest]

Hi Dominik
Thank you for that, I downloaded your code and it is a lovely neat application - works like a dream. I now have my wink generated swf with sound - all that remains is to figure out how to put user controls on it .
Kathleen

[Vinícius]

Hi all,

well, wav files are huge. Is that possible to do the same with a mp3 file?

Thanks.

[Guest]

[Guest]

I tried this out and it worked. Then I transferred the outcoming synchronized swf file to another laptop and on the other machine sound and picture was not synchronized anymore. The audio speed stays constant while the screen speed varies. Do you have an idea how to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance,

Tom

[gerrykirk]

I'm about to pull my hair out. I captured video of a playing Powerpoint presentation and the audio of my voice while the video played.

I set the capture rate to 2 frames / sec.

Now, for the life of me, I can't get the flash video to play at a speed that matches the sound. The way I am testing is I choose the output rate for the flash, then play the flash will I play the audio separately.

I've tried various frame rates, and all are either too slow or too fast. 7 frames seems to be closest.

Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,
Gerry

[stephan_branczyk]

[gerrykirk]

Yes, that's what I did. Maybe I'll have to wait for the 2.0 release, which is apparently due within days and try again...

[tucow]

Before wink 2 become available, I tried to add sound to my swf file using dominik's tool... In fact it works well, but I can't play the generated swf file several times (with a loop).I have to reload the HTML to read again the tutorial. What can I do? (please don't answere "wait release 2" )

Thanks in advance
Etienne
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[Patrick]

check this thread:
http://www.debugmode.com/userforums/viewtopic.php?t=2212

HTH

Patrick

[tucow]

thanks a lots i'm going to try that!

Another question there (another newbee question of course):
When i pause the running flash object, the animation stops as it's supposed to do... but sound doesn't!
I now that it's my voice and that i love to do what i'm not supposed to, but I'm not used to be that kind of boring with me!!
So could someone help me (again)?
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[davyboy]

[tucow]

ok thank you for the informations... I have enough time to wait release 2.0, the project is frozen for the moment, due to these misses. (i hope it's understandable).
By the way, i'm really impatient to use Wink 2.0...
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[davyboy]

We all are,

But we are getting this stuff for free, so as much as we complain about it not being released soon enough, it is still fantastic for the money!

Keep up the good work guys

[ronan]

Love reading this forum... & Love to wear propet shoes on occassions. Will visit this shoes forum again

[trevelyn]

i did:
wav2swf -o hack.swf -l 0 speech.wav
and got
strange error flushing buffer...
then it finishes and i do
swfcombine -T hack.swf speech.wav
and get
FATAL:coudn't open/read endcredits.wav!
omgwtf
now when i watch the video of me hacking theres just sound and no picture
please if anone still reads this help!? thanks 2 you in advance btw. -trev