We recommend starting with a free 14 day trial of SlideShowPro.com. It's powered by SlideShowPro Director -- a complete content management and slideshow publishing product that doesn't require any third party products or development experience. If at the end of the trial you want to keep using it, you can extend it for 6, 12 or 24 months with a paid subscription. Or, you can let the trial expire and purchase the "self-install" version of SlideShowPro Director to install the same application on your own web server.
From there, if you want even more creative control over the Flash slideshow that SlideShowPro Director publishes, you can add-on the SlideShowPro Player desktop plugins for Flash or Lightroom to create your own Flash slideshows that replace the one Director publishes (while still retaining the alternate mobile player as a backup).
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Player embed code is provided for you to copy/paste into your HTML document. Load the slideshow using a desktop web browser, and you'll see the Flash slideshow. Load the slideshow on an iPad, iPhone or Android device, and you'll see a preview poster to click-and-load the mobile player. SlideShowPro Director publishes all content and data automatically.
No. You can use SlideShowPro Director by itself to publish slideshows and galleries of your photos and videos all by itself. The Flash slideshow SlideShowPro Director publishes is the same player used in our SlideShowPro Player products.
SlideShowPro Player for Flash gives Adobe Flash users the ability to create highly customized slideshows and web sites by incorporating the SlideShowPro Player into their Flash movies. It offers a user interface to control nearly every parameter the player offers (over 100), and gives ActionScript developers the means to push the realm of creative possibilities even farther. SlideShowPro Player for Flash (ActionScript 3 version) is also required to use the ThumbGrid add-on component which offers even greater flexibility and customization.
As for SlideShowPro Player for Lightroom, it too offers a user interface for nearly every player parameter. So if you have design skills and are interested in creating a unique player style, you can use SlideShowPro Player for Lightroom to do so. SlideShowPro Player for Lightroom also gives you the option of using your Lightroom library for your slideshows (more on that below).
SlideShowPro Player SWF and SlideShowPro Director are compatible, but if you purchase SlideShowPro Director you shouldn't need SlideShowPro Player SWF. The SWF that's part of SlideShowPro Player SWF is identical to the one SlideShowPro Director publishes in its Flash slideshow. The only reason you'd need SlideShowPro Player SWF is if you wanted to load your own content from outside SlideShowPro Director, which includes Media RSS feeds or your own content.
Yes. You can purchase SlideShowPro Player for Flash, SlideShowPro Player for Lightroom or SlideShowPro Player SWF to use with your own content. SlideShowPro Player for Lightroom users have the added ability to publish slideshows using content from their local Lightroom library.
Adobe Lightroom owners have three options for publishing slideshows using our products.
1) Use SlideShowPro Director (by itself)
SlideShowPro Director comes with a free Lightroom to Director export plugin that allows you to upload photos from your Adobe Lightroom library into any SlideShowPro Director installation. From there Director can be used to publish universal slideshows of uploaded content. Albums/galleries being used in a published slideshow can be updated anytime, so even after a slideshow has been embedded on a web page you can continue to update/edit its source using SlideShowPro Director and the Lightroom to Director export plugin.
2) Use SlideShowPro Player for Lightroom (by itself)
If you don't need/want a separate content management system (Director), you can use SlideShowPro Player for Lightroom to export slideshows of Lightroom Library content. Lightroom creates all the requisite thumbnails, slideshow images and full screen images for your custom slideshows. Slideshows are not dynamic however, so anytime you want to update a slideshow you'll need to export a new slideshow from Lightroom.
3) Use SlideShowPro Player for Lightroom with SlideShowPro Director
The broadest range of publishing flexibility comes when using both SlideShowPro Director and SlideShowPro Player for Lightroom. Reason being, you have both of the above publishing options (#1 and #2 above), plus the ability to design a custom SlideShowPro Player on your desktop that loads SlideShowPro Director content and falls-back to Director's mobile player for Apple iOS and Android automatically. When finished, you export the slideshow, upload the files to your site, and then use your web browser of the Lightroom to Director export plugin (explained in #1) to update slideshow content when necessary.