Loading Media RSS feeds

Media RSS is a special flavor of RSS 2.0 created (by Yahoo) to distribute rich media assets like images and videos. Most photo sharing sites like Flickr, Photobucket and SmugMug publish multiple RSS feeds using Media RSS. This walkthrough will show you how to load a feed from Flickr.com.

Note: Not all Media RSS feeds will work in SlideShowPro for Lightroom. Some sites, even though they offer Media RSS, do not actually publish content in their feeds. Some (like YouTube) merely provide a link to their own player, which will not work in SlideShowPro for Lightroom.

Step one: Copy media RSS feed

Visit Flickr.com. If you have a profile, login to your account, then scroll to the bottom of the page. You should see a square, orange RSS feed graphic followed by the words "Subscribe to [yourprofile]'s photos". Right click on the "Latest" link next to that, and select "Copy Link" (or whatever is applicable to your browser). The URL is now on your clipboard.

Step two: Assign xml file path

Return to SlideShowPro for Lightroom, and toggle open the "Output Settings" panel. At the very bottom is a module named "Data." Click inside the XML File Path input field, and erase the default "images.xml" value. Paste the RSS feed you copied from Flickr into this field. Tab out of the field to save. Then toggle open the "XML File Type" drop-down immediately below, and choose "Media RSS."

Step three: Export

Publish a new movie, and your Flickr RSS content should load.

Page last modified by tdominey on May 06, 2008, at 12:49 PM