| 01-24-2004, 06:08 PM | #1 |
usualy sounds take alot of KB... is there a way to compress it to make the file smaller? |
| 01-24-2004, 10:53 PM | #2 |
Since most mp3s mostly repeat. Cutting it would make it smaller. Map Lock [Map Protection] would make a sound smaller. Changing the quality to lower would make it way go down in kb but it will make the sound; sound awful... Coverting it from a .wav to a .mp3 makes it smaller. Mp3 are smaller file with same out come then .wav files. Free programs to make sound kb lower are All Recorder and MP3 Workshop. DL the trial version from download.com and you cut and covert for free. It also saves unlike other free trial versions although some fuctions as fade out are taken out because of free trial. |
| 01-27-2004, 04:05 PM | #3 |
Heavy Locker can make the entire map smaller ( I never used it but heard great things about it.) there are a few links on this site, if you cannot find it, I can put mine up for dl or find you the link. |
| 01-27-2004, 08:53 PM | #4 |
Ditto the above. I was asking Maglok about this yesterday, but he could explain it better than me (About kbps in mp3's). Consider changing or removing the sounds or music, perhaps to something smaller. I just finished a cinematic and was going to use some music that brought it up to 7MB From 2.77MB - that's a big difference (considering 56k users and my server :P). As well, the music could barely be heard through the narrator's speech so it made little difference to the level. |
| 01-28-2004, 12:20 PM | #5 |
I am sure heavy locker can. But if your working with an mp3 format, there is not really anything to compress there people. It probably means compressing the rest. There is like next to no compression method better then *.mp3 at the moment. (Next to *.mp4 off course ;)) Changing the bitrate can indeed lower the size, but it will also lower the quality. Oh and if you consider cutting it cause it repeats anyways be aware that you will have a nasty gap in your music playback, you can bet on that. |
| 01-29-2004, 12:09 AM | #6 |
I think heavy locker just compress the whole map with imports too. Imports including sound files too. |
| 01-29-2004, 06:08 PM | #7 |
Well what your arguments for it doing so? Take a fruit basket. Banana, apple, etc. How are you gonna compress a apple? Probably slice it up in apple squares! :) Well that is how mp3s are, already sliced up. |
| 01-29-2004, 11:37 PM | #8 |
a little pissed off now aren't we.... (I would be too....) |
| 01-30-2004, 10:40 AM | #9 |
Not really, just dissapointed by the lack of arguments people tend to give. If I am saying that an apple is an apple and proof it by showing you a survey in wich 99% thinks an apple is an apple, then I have a point. If you would just yell "It is not!"... then you have no point at all. |
| 02-27-2004, 04:02 PM | #10 |
i used heaving locker and i saved it to a different file incase it would screw up the map guess wut it did. So good thing i did that :bgrun: i used heaving locker and i saved it to a different file incase it would screw up the map guess wut it did. So good thing i did that :bgrun: i used heaving locker and i saved it to a different file incase it would screw up the map guess wut it did. So good thing i did that :bgrun: |