3DMM Sound Design

[Samuel Deacon]

Originally posted by Ramza Brave
The problem with carrying ambient sound in 3dmm is the whole fading out. Even in a scene transition, and depending on the speeds of peoples computers. The sound mostly cuts out and ends up giving a worse reaction to people watching the movie.

I've noticed this. Like, if a song is fading out at the end, it doesnt fade out nicely like the original track does, but it cuts out below a certain volume level. I think its to do with how 3dmm compresses the sound.

[Demented Ferret]

Originally posted by Ramza Brave
The problem with carrying ambient sound in 3dmm is the whole fading out. Even in a scene transition, and depending on the speeds of peoples computers. The sound mostly cuts out and ends up giving a worse reaction to people watching the movie.

I haven't really found that to be the case at all, sound cues are normally the same on any computer; providing you precache everything first.

[Breed]

someone should sticky this, its very insightful

[Gorosaurus]

Originally posted by Brossy
I've always taken lots of care with sound, and done things like made my own sounds by mixing others (FFTOS - Crash.wav for example, that thing is in every second movie now!).

Have always tried to fade my music perfectly too, and in some cases done some slight sound syncing.

Sounds make a massive difference

You should check out Fight 3 on a Win98 computer sometime. It synches poifectly for the first half