I have a sound (voice narration) which I want to animate to.

I want to see the imported sound in the Timeline for its ACTUAL length in the
frames.

I then want to be able to drag back and forth (or similar) to hear WHERE I am
in the narration, and to do my animation to match it.

How do I do this in Flash 8 Pro ?

Thanks

It really is that simple in Flash Pro 8.

Import the sound. Drag it from the library onto a layer and put enough frames
on the layer until you have no more blue line. If there is an automatic way to
do this, I don't know it.

Click on the sound in the layer and in the properties box, make sure Sync is
set to Stream and you can wipe the timeline.

[q]Originally posted by: rlc5611...put enough frames on
the layer until you have no more blue line. ...[/q]How do I do this? When I
drag, the single frame moves, or the edge of the layer labels area moves, or I
get a wide blank range of frames with a single frame item at the right end...

None of these show any "blue line"...

One the layer where you have the sound, scroll the timeline to the right. Click on the timeline out there somewhere and hit the F5 key and it will extend the timeline frames to that point.

[q]Originally posted by: rlc5611
One the layer where you have the sound, scroll the timeline to the right.
Click on the timeline out there somewhere and hit the F5 key and it will extend
the timeline frames to that point.[/q]Thanks.

Okay, It's stretched out the waveform, thanks.

1) How do I make the displayed frames TALLER ?

2) How do I know in which frame the 2min 6sec sound ends? Do I need to multipy
out 2m06s by 20 fps to get the final frame (frame 2560!) OR OR OR.... Does it
just scale the sound length to FIT the "final" frame I chose, OR OR OR ... does
it CHOP the audio short to fit the magic "final" frame I chose ?

( What I want is 20 frames per second, and for the sound to be shown complete
and unchopped or adulterated at THAT SCALE ON THE TIMELINE )

If you want precision timing, Flash is not your software of choice. You can
sync animation to the sound. The timing will be reasonably close but with
marginal error. The FPS of Flash is not guaranteed. But I'm kind of tired of
GETTING YELLED AT so I'm kind of outta here.

Sorry, I wasn't yelling at you. I'm just frustrated by the terrible documentation. Typical Macromedia....

Well Macromedia hasn't been around for quite awhile, and it all works just like
you want, so stop over-thinking it. It also sounds like you should do some of
the basic tutorials on working with the timeline and the playhead.

You know what frame the sound ends at because the blue wave frame ends. If it
doesn't end you haven't reached the end and will need to add additional blank
frames.

How could it scale the sound to fit? If it scaled it then you would either
have chipmunks or chopped off sound or something else undesireable. You've got
2m6s of sound, that is how long the sound will be. At 20 frames per second that
is 2520 frames -- more or less. If you change the frame rate of the document
the length of the blue line will change, because again it all works just like
you are asking.

As for making them taller, I think the timeline only has normal and short
choices for the height of the timelines. So if you aren't already on short it
doesn't get any taller.