Active Slideshow
"The slideshow slowly zooms in and pans across your photos, bringing your photos to life."
Bring your photos to life in an amazing Flash slideshow. This extension uses amazing effects from the famous director, Ken Burns. The slideshow slowly zooms in and pans across your photos, bringing your photos to life. Furthermore, you can add your favourite sound or music track, making it the most enjoyable slideshow ever!
The extension allows you to create and customize your slideshow within a few clicks in Dreamweaver. Fireworks is used to convert the images to the specified size. The Flash player is used for displaying the slideshow to the user.
NOTE: Active Slideshow PRO is now released! Packed with *PRO* features, full user control and dazzling effects!
The slideshow generates an instant user experience by streaming the images and sounds directly. This way the user can enjoy your slideshow instantly even with a low bandwidth connection.
Note: You need Fireworks to use this extension
Features Highlights:
- Live preview in Dreamweaver
- Amazing user experience
- Automatically generates and edits slideshow XML file
- Images are automatically scaled in the Flash viewer
Demos
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Applications
- Make great family and vacation slideshows
- Spice up corporate presentations
- Make great advertisements and banners
- Create awesome offline product presentations
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Features
- Amazing user experience
- The slideshow generates an instant user experience by streaming the images and sounds directly. This way the user can enjoy your slideshow instantly even with a low bandwidth connection.
- The slideshows uses a great zoom in and pan effect also know as the Ken Burns effect, furthermore it generates a cool alpha blending effect.
- Fully integrated in Dreamweaver.
- interactive dialog in Dreamweaver with all the options you’ll need;
- an inline property inspector so that you can easily change visual options later on
- Live preview in Dreamweaver:
- With a single click on the preview button in DW you can see within Dreamweaver itself how your slideshow will look like!
- Automatically generates and edits slideshow XML file
- The extension creates the slideshow XML files fully for you! No need to dig in a difficult XML format everything is fully visual now
- Images are automatically scaled in the Flash viewer
- The Flash Viewer is using a smart imaging technique so that your images always fit in the display
- Original images can be automatically resized to fit the specified size while the proportions are maintained
Special features of the Flash Slideshow Viewer
The viewer of Active Slideshow uses a different viewer then the Flash Album Generator featuring;
- Intelligent image and audio pre-loading and streaming.
- Extremely Lightweight (4k).
- Resizable interface - Interface scales to fit browser window.
- Cross platform (requires Flash 7 or higher).
Great mp3 resources
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| Product: | Dreamweaver MX 2004, Dreamweaver 8, Dreamweaver CS3, Dreamweaver CS4, Dreamweaver CS5/CS5.5 and CS6 |
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George Petrov
George Petrov is the Founder of the highly successful Zones: DMXzone.com, FWzone.net, FLzone.com, CFzone.net, DNzone.com and FlashFiles.nl
He has developed the comprehensive Dynamic Zones Content Management System that is the brains driving them and constantly supports their online communities with his extensive and valuable knowledge.
He is a renowned web development 'Guru' who has written many articles and extension for Adobe's Dreamweaver.
George Petrov is also the CEO and Founder of Dynamic Zones and also very proud of his children Sofie, Victor and Alexander!
User Reviews
Total of 23 reviewsRE: Control
Written by George Petrov on December 16, 2005Check out the new Active Slideshow PRO! It gives you all the control you need.
Control
Written by Dennis Field on November 25, 2005Active Slideshow doesn't work well with larger images -- I had in mind 800 x 600, but there's way too much flicker. I wish I could turn off the Burns effects. Also, I don't like all of the transitions, but can't control them. So until more control ...
Fantastic!
Written by Pat Johnson on November 3, 2005Easy to use and just the greatest results. My co-workers think i have spent hours creating the slideshows.
Highly Recommend!
Written by Peter McPhee on October 31, 2005I just purchased Active Slide Show today and it’s already in use. After a few test runs, it is quite easy master. True, you cannot configure the transitions, but hey, that’s just more work. I think it is perfect. I put it to use for my ...
I must be the only one that finds Active Slide show rather inadequate for customization.
Written by Dan Faust on October 9, 2005I am using Active Slideshow and find that it offers very little in the area of control. The photos transition in a random manner that does not allow me to choose where they begin to zoom in or out with the Ken Burns effect. I cannot get anything ...
RE: Slideshow
Written by Justin Reid on September 30, 2005I must admit, more control would be nice however for my plans not essential (BTW, don't think too much of slideroll).I esspecially like the fact that it's controlled (in it's way) by XML, I didn't realise this when the extension was first released ...
RE: Slideshow
Written by mickey Williamson on September 28, 2005I agree. Neat idea but was disappointed with the lack of control over ordering the pictures and panning and zooming. Great start to the extension, just needs more features.
This Extension Rocks!
Written by Peter Barron on September 24, 2005The slide shows created are absolutely captivating to the typical visitor. It loses it's 2D 'flatness' and becomes a 3D interactive show! Here are some examples on our site: http://www.rioranchobands.org/Performances/homecoming05.htm
