Follow the text in flash 8
I have devised a technique for a follow the text effect.
I load my sound in as a Sound object,
play it using the Sound.start() method.
Then the text for this voiceover.
I select the text, hit F8 and make it a Movieclip.
double click on the movieclip to open in edit window.
rename the layer the text is on to text.. doh!
create 3 new layers and call them ball, sound, actions.
create a bouncing ball (or a stroke is what i use 2×6 ), make it into a Graphic Object
and put it under the text so that it underlines the text as it is read..
then dump the sound file temorarily into the sound layer.. extend it till the sound is finished..
then just make ball follow the text in time with the sound.
i just put the stroke at the beginning of the line and when the sentence ends, move the ball to the end of the sentence. F6, create keyframe..
then tween …
when finished throw away the sound layer ..
and put a stop(); on the last frame of the actions layer..
I will explain it later when i get more time.
byee..