Integrating Multimedia into your Drupal site

Using Slideshow Pro &Slideshowpro Director

What’s needed

• Drupal• Drupal CCK Module• Slideshow Pro Flash component• Slideshow Pro Director• SWF Object• Basic Flash Knowledge• Drupal Template development skills

What is Slideshow Pro

• A Component for Flash • Creates Flash slideshows• Uses an XML file as the data source• Easy to use

What is Slideshow Pro Director

• A hosted image management system for Slideshow Pro

• Takes care of creating the XML file• Easy to use• Main advantage is images are centralized• Slideshows are easily edited

SSP Director

SSP Director

First things first

• What are the Multimedia Requirements of your site

• Slideshows?• Galleries?• Video?• What content?

How do you do it

• Create a Slideshow Pro SWF file that uses Director as the image source

Hacking to make work

The Drupal content type

Additional content

Things to consider

• Flash embedding• Image editing• Size and proportions of images/multimedia• Video

Resources

• http://slideshowpro.net/products/slideshowpro/• http://slideshowpro.net/products/slideshowpro_director/• http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/• http://drupal.org/project/cck

Thank you

Peter Kaizerpdkaizer@gmail.com