SlideShowPro Director: Content management and publishing for SlideShowPro for Flash

SlideShowPro Director

Purchase

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Software requirements

 

Notable features

  • Built for SlideShowPro

    Designed from the ground up to fully administer all the data and slideshow content one or more SWFs containing SlideShowPro need.

  • Automatic XML publishing

    No more XML editing by hand. Director publishes unique XML File Paths for every album and gallery. All can be copied with one click.

  • On-demand image publishing

    Director "knows" what size imagery SlideShowPro needs and publishes sharp, beautiful images tailored to fit every slideshow you publish.

  • Amazing full screen imagery

    For the ultimate presentation, Director can (optionally) return images formatted to fit a user's monitor for huge, beautiful imagery in full screen.

  • Video support

    Upload any video and Director will return it "as-is" to SlideShowPro when requested. You can also assign any image to represent the video when needed.

  • Focal point selection

    Choose an area in any photo to keep in focus when performing image publishing, and Director will always crop around that area.

  • Fast content upload

    Browser-based batch uploading of content. Select as much as you want, and Director will handle it all for you. Uploading via FTP also acceptable.

  • Gallery importing

    Already created SlideShowPro content without Director? Only takes a minute to import your content and swap out SlideShowPro's XML File Path.

  • Runs on your own web server

    SlideShowPro Director can be installed with ease on your own web server, with software requirements that meet what most web hosts offer.

  • Multilingual

    At the flick of a switch, Director can change all user interface text to Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish. You can also load your own language translation file.

  • IPTC metadata support

    Have imagery with embedded IPTC metadata? Director reads this data on upload and can automatically assign image captions.

  • Group collaboration

    Setup multiple user logins for your content contributors, each with unique permissions and access levels. Director also tracks user edit history.

How it works

Director upload
ABOVE: Director upload progress

Easy installation and upload

SlideShowPro Director is installed on your web server (or hosted by us) and is "always on" to supply content to one or more SWFs containing SlideShowPro. You can batch upload a group of images or videos through a web browser, or via FTP with the self-install version. After installation, all management and slideshow content updating can be performed through a web browser.

Perfect photos, every time

When content is requested, Director publishes "on-demand" web-optimized duplicates of the original images you upload to fit your slideshow. This means that every slideshow you create will receive first generation imagery perfectly formatted to fit. Your original images are left untouched, and are only re-used when requests for new content (of a different dimension or setting) are made.

Sorting, managing

ABOVE: Editing album content order

Director offers total control over how content is managed and presented. It allows you to create albums of content, then group albums together in galleries. SlideShowPro can link to either content type. Need to change the order of content? Move content around manually (seen right), or use an auto-sort option to sort by date (newest and oldest) as well as file name. And whenever new content is uploaded, it's automatically sorted for you.

Focal point
ABOVE: Director's Focal Point utility

Smart cropping

Have a mix of portrait and landscape photos? No problem. As part of Director's on-demand publishing system, Director's "Focal Point" utility allows you to select an area of an image to maintain whenever a crop is necessary. So if any image is requested for use as slideshow content, an album preview, or a thumbnail image link in the navigation, the area you select will always be respected.

One source, many slideshows

Because Director creates content on demand (and caches it for re-use if necessary), there's no limit to the number of slideshows published with SlideShowPro that can retrieve content. This allows web designers and editors the freedom to deploy new slideshows anytime without having to spend hours and hours reformatting all their slideshow content to fit a new layout. Anytime SlideShowPro changes, Director notices, and will supply perfectly formatted content every time.

See it in action!

Want to learn more about how SlideShowPro for Flash and SlideShowPro Director work together? This screencast video covers the basics.

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