Create dazzling multimedia presentations, slideshows and banners with Active Slideshow Pro. This extension builds on the success of Active Slideshow and gives you new spectacular effects and optimal control over your slides, texts, transitions and sounds.
Active Slideshow Pro is completely rebuild and packed with new features. Among the features are amazing transition effects. Easing will give you full motion control on your transitions. And you can spice up your slideshow with time triggered texts and sound effects per slide.
The zoom and pan effects of Ken Burns are fully controllable. The Ken Burns effect can be combined with other transition effects. The flow of the effects can be controlled with easing and allows effects like accelerated and elastic movements. A new interface in Dreamweaver gives you full control of all the options.
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FAQ
Q: My Slideshow doesn't run fluently or
takes a long time to load, what can I do about this?
A: Make sure you use images that are
suited for the web, Progressive jpg is not supported and images that are too
large (as well in size as in pixels and megabits) will cause long loading times
and slow transitions.
Q: I changed a parameter but the change
is not visible at my live site.
A: Make sure you've uploaded your slideshow XML-file
to your server and that you've deleted your browser cache.
Here is a link that shows you how to do
this for internet explorer
6.
Here is a link that shows you how to do
this for other
browsers.
Q: My slideshow doesn't work
A: You need to upload the slideshowPro.swf,
all associated files such as MP3 files, the XML-file and all images to your
server.
Q: I want to display a background image
A: Set the wmode parameter in the Flash
movie to transparent in the general options.
Q: My slideshow doesn't display my
photos
A: Please make sure that the page of your slideshow
is saved in the site that is defined in Dreamweaver to prevent path Problems.
You can also change the path to your images in the XML file.
Q: Where can I find more information on
Active Slideshow Pro?
A: You can find more information on the Active
Slideshow at http://www.dmxzone.com/go?11360.
Q: How do I create a slideshow for a standalone
Flash player?
A: Rename your XML-file to slideshow.xml
and open the slideshowPro.swf file to start the slideshow.
Q: Can I edit my Active Slideshows with
Active Slideshow Pro?
A: No, you have to rebuild your slideshow
as Active Slideshow Pro is completely rebuilt and uses different XML.
Q: The slideshow does not display in my
Internet Explorer
A: Make sure you uploaded your slideshow online;
Internet Explorer prevents local slideshows from running.
Q: I don't like the background color of
my overlay
A: If you don't like the background color of
your overlay, you can adjust it by setting the background color of your Flash
Movie (In the General Tab or in your Property Inspector).
Q: I've
inserted a text on the slide with fade in effect but the text dos not display
with fade and also do not have any alpha transparency or rotation (if I choose
those)
A: Currently the Active Slideshow Pro viewer
has only one font embedded and that is Arial.
A limitation in Flash is that only embedded fonts can have fade effects, be
transparent with alpha or get rotated. Also only Arial will be displayed smooth
as it gets anti-aliased.
We have embedden only Arial because each embedded font makes the
flash viewer +/- 50KB bigger and we wanted to keep the viewer size small -
it is now about 62KB.
So to get one of those special effects you should use the font Arial.
Other fonts will display on your slideshow but they won't be
transparent, can't be rotated and can not display with fade effects. They can
display however with the ZoomIn/BlowIn effect.
See for additional info a macromedia technote on this.
Q: When attaching an MP3 as a soundtrack, the
soundtrack plays in fast motion. Other MP3 files play too slow, what can I do
about this?
A: You are probably using Variable Bit Rate (vbr) MP3 files. The Flash Player supports only fixed bitrate. The
best way to encode mp3 files is to use a fixed bitrate of 64/96/128 kbps
with a sample frequency of 22.05kHz and joint stereo.
See also other discussion and more
Q: I'm displaying my
Active Slideshow Pro in a popup window. I want the window to get closed when
the slideshow ends. How can I do this?
A: Please specify the following as link at the
option "At the end go to":
javascript:window.close()
This will close your popup window when the
slideshow ends.
Q: I want to create my own overlay where do
I need to save the .swf Files that I've created?
A: Save the SWF files you created in
- Windows XP and Windows 2000:
c:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver
8\Configuration\Shared\DMXzone\Active Slideshow Pro\Overlays (In Windows
XP, this folder may be inside a hidden folder).
- Windows NT:
c:\WinNT\Profiles\username\Application Data\Macromedia\ Dreamweaver 8\Configuration\Shared\DMXzone\
Active Slideshow Pro\Overlays
- Macintosh OS X:
Hard disk:Users:username:Library:Application Support:Macromedia: Dreamweaver
8:Configuration:Shared\DMXzone:Active Slideshow Pro:Overlays
Q: How do I synchronize my images to
music?
A: If you want the music and images to
start at the same time, disable streaming for both the music and the slideshow.
