The Turning Gate

Another smash hit Matthew! I bought the slideshow from the link and your implementation in Lightroom is a dream. I need to play around with the custom fonts in the XML file like you mentioned and see what else I can play with. Thanks for sharing your talent with the world!

: )

-jason

Thanks, guys!

Steve,

Because the Lightroom application has nothing to do with music management, I chose to omit these features from the template. In accordance with that decision, and in the interest of preventing the template from becoming overwhelming with options, I am not likely to include these features in a future release.

Instead, I’ve tried to include those features most related to what Lightroom does. To wit, I’ve focused on the photos, gallery options and general appearance of the slideshow.

While I do have a few things in mind for a future release, other aspects, including sounds, SWF watermarking, custom fonts, etc. will likely remain manual additions.

While on the subject of future updates, I should mention that other projects now require my attention. I probably won’t be working on anything Lightroom-related until September.

Cheers,
Matt

Hey Matt, Great work with the monoslideshow, love the ken burns panning and zooming (I set to random), just one quick question, the majority of my shots are landscapes but the odd portrait usually ends up cutting off the top and bottom, is there anyway to stop this?

Pete

Cool template, how difficult is it be to add the identity plate to the template?

Hi Matthew,

your is a very great job. I have an answer for you:
how can I load a custom xml file? What is the parameter, may be “datafile” as specified in the monoslideshow manual.

thanx

Saso

Dude, love it! purchased the monoslideshow, very cool nicely executed…
A couple questions: it seems that adding the ken burns effect results in a very very long upload have you seen this, 15min for 6 photos? also how does one create additional albums? can this be done in lightroom?
many thinks LOVE the site, keep up the good work
Les

Thanks, working great. I am going to be using TTG Select for all my media events I shoot… this is a great value to my workflow and I am asking everyone out there:

“please donate to this if you use it, TTG is one of the few people/businesses spending effort for the right reasons… to help people especially people in the arts to improve their bottom-line. You have certainly effected my bottom line in a positive way and for that I owe you many thanks”

Thanks again keep in touch, I will forward my sites for your galleries soon…
Les

Wow, Les. Thanks for the fervent endorsement! :)

Hi Christoph,

I’m not sure what you mean by “RAW-templates”. Could you explain?

What sorts of parameters are you looking for?

Thanks for sharing the MonoSlideshow thread; very informative.

As for where I find the galleries I choose to work on, I already knew about Airtight Interactive. The others I found by Googling for Flash-based web galleries. A few others, LR users have requested.

I’ve got a few more sitting in my to-do bin at the moment.

The nearest I’ve seen to your layout is this one. I’m not sure how customizable it is yet, though. I haven’t played with it much.

Is there a way to populate the link property of the img tag automatically from lightroom metadata?

Cheers

Wow – thanks Matthew – I’ll download and try the new version right away!

BTW, love the product and appreciate all your effort and responsiveness.

If you don’t mind, I’ve come across a couple of quirks I’m hoping you might be able to shed light upon.

1) I have made a few templates to persist your gallery settings, but noticed that a few properties don’t seem to persist (in a seemingly unpredictable manner – namely the stage and viewport dimensions as the display and transition time fields. This may be a lightroom issue – hard to tell.

2) Don’t know if this is related, but have a strange issue once my slideshow is published. On first page load, all is well, but if refresh the page or go to another page, the stage size is larger than I specified (not sure exactly what it is, but my slideshow is cropped because my flash object viewport is set to 500×500). My stage is 500×500 and the scale properties are turned off (of course my images are already sized to 500×500). I don’t know if the xml is not being loaded properly by monoslideshow or if something else is going on.

—Paul

Hi, I want to re-do my website and think this is the gallery I want to use. I even purchased the mono slideshow gallery. Only problem is the link to the TTGmonoslideshow zip file gives me a corrupted file that I can’t unzip. If you could check it out or e-mail me a new link or file I’d appreciate it, thanks—Harry

Hi,

I had a question about small drop down arrows to the right of the text boxes. It seems to record all of the values that have ever been entered into the box. Where is this information stored and how can it be reset?

Thanks.

thanks for updating the file. I got it working, but now it won’t export from lightroom. It was doing some funky things before, like not showing the progress bar while exporting, but now it doesn’t do anything. It builds and previews the galleries nicely but no export. I deledted the files and re-downloaded everything and set it up in my web-galleries folder and am still getting the same problems. Am I doing something wrong or need to change something in the files? Thanks —Harry

I was just wondering if you could explain how you got the results you did on your photo blog. I have been trying to figure out how to use monoslideshow to create a gallery and so far have been unsuccessful.

Question: Shouldn’t the gallery be producing its own .xml file? I continue to get errors with both preview and export. When I check the folder(s) there is no .xml file present.

I am having a problem in that I cannot export or upload to server. When I choose those options it does nothing. I am using LR 1.2 and the most current versions of TTG MonoSlideshow and MonoSlideshow .

Please help!

The plugin was designed to work with MonoSlideshow 1.32. I can’t guarantee compatibility with any other version. You might try contacting Monokai about an upgrade.

I love this implementation and have made a donation. I have a couple of comments: If you select “autoplay” and then click “export”; it stalls because it can’t get access to the files. I have to press “pause” on MSS to allow LR the ability to work.

Also… could you add the markFile=”“ attribute to the album?

And, during “export” can you get the FTP Subfolder to prefix imagePath=”“ and thumbnailPath=”“. This would be great when storing on a local website. At the moment I have to manually edit the XML on every export to include the correct path.

MarkOptions needs a text input field and the user to add the data file to the TTG folder so that you can assemble the assets on export/preview/publish.

As for relative paths for imagePath etc. I place my slideshow in a subdirectory so all the assets are nicely bundled. BUT I display the slideshow from my content management system. I don’t use iFrames because some firewall software clobbers them. So I’m left with my CMS /index.php including the XML and JS files from /slideshow/show2/*. Thus I have to manually add the fully qualified paths to imagePath etc. I was thinking that a radio with “absolute path XXXX” and “relative path” could be added which would give the use the option. Your browser and LR preview would be relative with Export honoring the relative/absolute configuration.

BTW. Checkout my homepage to see how your component works with my website & cms.

Cool, thanks! I check the MSS docs for just such a “base” parameter and didn’t find it. Thanks again!

As for markOptions, I use the following in my file and would need the option to easily keep it in a “User Template”:

<album markFile=‘round772×480.swf’ markAlign=‘center’ …>

So a simple text entry would work for me, i.e. no editing of config files. And it would be my responsibility to put the swf (et.al) into the TTG directory. Your code would bundle the asset and attributes together on an export to save me doing it via a perl script every time as a “fixup” script.

Also, did you identify a way around the “autoplay stopping LR from exporting?”.

Thanks for your compliments on my website, I work hard for my brides and even harder marketing to them! :-)

Gordon,
There is no way around the AutoPlay issue. You simply have to make sure the slideshow is paused before you export.

I’ll have to get on that mark stuff, then. ;)

As for the AutoPlay, it’s an extra step, but a simple one. If you’ve disabled the controls, just turn AutoPlay off, then enable it again by editing the XML file post-export. The AutoPlay is boolean, so just set it to true.

The other thing would be to keep just the play/pause button and set it to AutoHide. MonoSlideshow lets you enable/disable buttons individually. The toggles for each button are at the top of the Controls options in LR.

Okay, Gordon. Your mark files are supported now. Cheers!

Sergey,
Just blank out the Mark File field. It will go away.

Close but no banana…. the field length is truncated I can’t use: round600×400.swf !!!!!

Ahh, found it, I need to edit gallery.xml to include my stock mark files. Thanks for your work on this, another donation on the way as promised!

Also, I fixed the field length issue, I jacked it up to 32 chars :-)

ROFL – Sure, I noticed the panic set in. Markfile is quite a specialized feature but one that’s necessary to provide rounded corners to my presentations.

Thank you for your responsiveness and donation of this code to the community.

Have a great Christmas Holiday Season,

G.

I refreshed the file. Try it again.

Cheers,
Matt

If you’re still seeing the green screen, then you didn’t overwrite the dummy monoslideshow.swf file with the purchased monoslideshow.swf. Copy the purchased SWF into the gallery folder, overwriting the existing dummy file, and it should work fine.

Hi Matthew, after a long hésitation beetwin Monoslideshow and sideshowPro, I chose MonoslideShow and i don’t regret it.
but i think there is one importante thing missing in TTg MonoslideShow is the fullscreen mode. I tryed to do it by myself but i don’t know where to put the code i founded

(samuel from france)

http://flashpanoramas.com/player/test/fullscreen.as

Thanks for the recommendation on this one. I switched out the first gallery on our site today … over the weekend, I will switch some of the others out. Monoslideshow is super-easy to use. I had downloaded a trial of SlideShowPro, but in all honesty … I think this is easier to operate, offers more features, and looks nicer in the end. Thanks for all of your hard work in getting it set for Lightroom.
-Jason.
www.TAYLOR-WARREN.com

YaWie,
Make sure you’re running the latest version of Lightroom. Try exporting to your desktop, and see whether it’s creating files as it ought to.

1. Make sure you’re running Lightroom 1.1 or higher.

2. Copy only the purchased monoslideshow.swf file into the gallery folder. Do not copy any other files or you may overwrite something the gallery requires to operate.

You’re getting the error in the Web module, not in the browser, right?

If so, ignore it. IE throws up a lot of false warnings. Export the galleries and the result should work as it’s supposed to.

You just need to copy the TTGMonoSlideshowGallery folder into the LR Web Galleries folder specified in the installation instructions. Make sure your zip extraction application didn’t nest the files in additional sub-folders, and check your installation path.

Looks good, Steve!^^

David,
Whatever operating system you’re using, the file path for your purchased monoslideshow.swf file should be:

…/Lightroom/Web Galleries/TTGMonoSlideshowGallery/monoslideshow.swf

When you copy the purchased SWF to that location, you should overwrite the existing dummy file (which is the green screen). If you are still seeing the green screen, then you did not copy the file to the correct location.

MonoSlideshow and the TTG LR Pages output need to be merged merged outside of LR, after export. There’s no way to preview them together within the Web module. Is that the matching answer to the question I think you were asking? :)

Chris,

Extracts fine for me. You might try an alternate extraction utility. I like to keep two on hand, as I find one will sometimes fail to open an archive, and the other will do so just fine. Give AlZip a try and let me know if the problem persists.

Cheers,
Matt

Burkhard,

I don’t understand your question. I’m sorry. Can you try again?

Unfortunately, the Ken Burns effects override your image scaling settings. They always scale the image to fill the viewport, and there is no way to disable this. The best work-around I’ve come up with is to crop your images to the dimensions of the viewport, and then export them slightly larger so that they have a bit extra to move around. So, if your gallery is a 500 pixel square, I’d probably crop the images to square shape and then export them at 550 or 600 pixels.

You need to purchase MonoSlideshow and supply the purchased monoslideshow.swf file to the gallery template. Have you done this?

Oh, one more thing, to where should I place the “presets” folder?

Thank you for such a quick reply!
Unfortunately, I’ve set it up as it should be. I wish i could send you a printscreen shot of my folders. I have lightroom 1.4, and I’ve just downloaded monoslideshow, and ttgmonoslideshow.
any thoughts?

Matthew,
I’ve got it all figured out. I was supposed to go to “Users” first!
It’s so sad that you’re leaving Korea, but at the same time, you are pursuing your dreams, and for that I congratulate you. Best of luck to you!

I’ve never used Aperture, and have no plans to port templates over to it. Sorry.

No. Reason being that Output Sharpening is a feature that can only be coded into the new Lua-based galleries, while Flash galleries (including MonoSlideshow, the Airtight galleries, and others) are, by necessity, still written in XSLT. As things currently stand, it’s just not possible to include the feature in these galleries.