What is Ultra Media Gallery?
Ultra
Media Gallery is the most widely adopted media (images / videos / mp3
audios and .swf flash movies) management and delivery solution for
DotNetNuke. With UMG, you can create photo and image galleries with 29
customizable Flash and Html viewers. It's also possible to sell digital
products or prints online so you can benefit from your website.
UMG
offers a great deal of configuration settings and a wide range of
viewer choices to meet your needs, you can choose from 14 Flash
presentations to create high quality image galleries with rich user
experience, or choose from 15 HTML presentations to host medias with
completely cross-platform support including iPhone / iPad.
UMG has been deployed to thousands of DotNetNuke websites in 90+ countries around the world.
What's new in version 7.9
- New presentation: SimpleSlider
SimpleSlider, an ideal homepage slider, is
added to UMG Professional Edition as a free addition, click here to see an example.
What's new in version 7.8
- New presentation: BlacknWhite
BlacknWhite is added to both UMG Standard
Edition & Professional Edition as a free addition, click here to see an example.
- Upgraded presentation: RandomPosition
In UMG 7.8 we adopted a new flash viewer for RandomPosition, which exists since version 5.x, click here to see an example.
What's new in version 7.7
- New presentation: 3D Wall
3D Wall is added to UMG Professional Edition as a free addition, click here to see an example.
- New presentation: Piece Rotator
Piece Rotator is added to both UMG Standard
Edition & Professional Edition as a free addition, click here to see an example.
What's new in version 7.6
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New presentation: Multi Media Gallery
Multi Media Gallery is added to UMG Professional Edition as a free addition, click here to see an example.
What's new in version 7.4 & 7.5
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Upload images to UMG from your clipboard (need JAVA support)
Copy(CTRL+C) one or more images in Windows
Explorer or Photoshop, paste(CTRL+V) them to UMG and get uploaded.
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New presentation: Photo Stack
Photo Stack is added to both UMG Standard
Edition and Professional Edition as a free addition, click here to see an example.
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New presentation: Cloud Carousel
Cloud Carousel is added to both UMG Standard Edition and Professional Edition as a free addition, click here to see an example.
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Why choose Ultra Media Gallery?
The most powerful media management solution:
UMG offers all feature you need to build a media gallery on interenet,
it allows you to create multiple albums and even nested albums to
organize your medias, you can upload bulk medias at same time by a flash
uploader or traditional HTML uploader, or import medias that already
exists in your server folders or from internet. you can define the auto
resize option on each album so uploaded images can be resized down
automatically. "...they [Biz Modules] don't take short cuts for their convenience, they do the difficult programming for you." (said by Dwight B.)
Offers 29 completely different presentations / media viewers:
UMG is an "all-in-one" gallery solution, offering 29 Flash and Html
viewers for various business and personal uses. With Ultra Media
Gallery, you save money because you get multiple Flash and html viewer
interfaces built into one product, while other vendors distribute
modules with only one player per module. The power built into UMG is
much greater than similar products
The most carefree choice:
While you may encounter various questions and concerns when deploying a
DotNetNuke module, UMG's detailed user guide can help you to quickly
solve most issues that arise. Biz Modules support forum is also a good
knowledgebase of tips and tricks. "The other major reason I choose
this product [UMG] is that the developer is very active and responsive
in supporting this product. This gives me confidence that any issues
that arise in the future will be addressed quickly." (said by Sean Lee)
Featured sample galleries
Below
are some sample galleries built by the most featured presentations of
UMG, click them to see it in action, more samples can be found on bizmodules.net.
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3D Wall
- Support images only
- Pure CSS + Javascript implementation
- Nice 3D wall effect in Safari browsers(including iPhone/iPad)
- Mousewheel support
- Fully works on iPhone/iPad
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Piece Rotator
- Support images, videos, audios and Flash movies(.swf)
- Cool transition effect
- Play images, videos and even flash movies together
- Dozens of configuration options
- Donot work on iPhone/iPad, but UMG will downgrade to a HTML viewer
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Multi Media Gallery
- Support images, videos, audios and Flash movies(.swf)
- Pure CSS + Javascript implementation
- Support multiple albums
- Play medias in lightbox window
- Automatically use Html 5 <VIDEO> and <AUDIO> tag for iPhone/iPad
- Works on iPhone/iPad, but iPhone/iPad donot support flash movies
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WidescreenTour2
- Support images & videos
- Pure CSS + Javascript implementation
- A nice folding effect
- Choose from multiple albums at gallery bottom
- Fully works on iPhone/iPad
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MediaLibrary
- Support images, videos, audios and Flash movies(.swf)
- Pure CSS + Javascript implementation
- Narrow selection in left side
- Play medias in lightbox window
- Organize medias by taken date or created date
- Works on iPhone/iPad, but iPhone/iPad donot support flash movies
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WidescreenTour1
- Support images & videos
- Medias displayed in random position
- Auto plays the first video when enter an album
- Donot work on iPhone/iPad, but UMG will downgrade to a HTML viewer
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UMG Professional
- Support images or photos
- Professional look & feel
- Can enter full screen mode
- Show photos' EXIF information inside the viewer
- Admin can edit a photo just inside the viewer
- Donot work on iPhone/iPad, but UMG will downgrade to a HTML viewer
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WidescreenShowroom
- Support images and videos
- Quick navigation(hover an item to open it)
- A integrated compact video player
- Donot work on iPhone/iPad, but UMG will downgrade to a HTML viewer
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Highslide
- Support images, videos, audios and Flash movies(.swf)
- Pure CSS + Javascript implementation
- Choose from 6 display themes
- Easily add a new theme
- Play medias in lightbox window
- Works on iPhone/iPad, but iPhone/iPad donot support flash movies
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MacStyle
- Support images only
- iPhone 3 style frame
- Mac style image viewer
- Open images in lightbox window
- Donot work on iPhone/iPad, but UMG will downgrade to a HTML viewer
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Featured sample slideshows
The fully W3C compatible presentation, Html Slideshow is
implemented by JavaScript + CSS with 20+ completely different display
templates, each template have its unique look and feel and can be used
in different business circumstances, further more, it's pretty easy to
modify or create a new display template if integreated display templates
doesn't fully meet your needs. Click below screenshots to experience it
on our website.
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Image slideshow (Default)
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Image slideshow (FloatThumb)
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Image slideshow (Tube-800x566)
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Image slideshow (Title-Bottom)
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Html content slideshow (Title-Top) |
Html content slideshow (Title-Right) |
Features that makes UMG unique
Build
29 completely different media galleries , when setup a new gallery, you
can choose desired player from 3 categories, 29 unique presentations:
Mixed media gallery , serve images + videos + audios + flash movies in single gallery:
UMG's
own video player , videos can be played in our own video player, which
automatically downgrades to HTML 5 <video> tag when works on
iPhone/iPad.
UMG's
own audio player , audios can be played our own audio player, which
automatically downgrades to HTML 5 <audio> tag when works on
iPhone/iPad.
Bulk upload , choose and upload bulk medias(images, videos, audios, flash movies) into selected album:
Import medias , import media files that already exist on your server disk:
From internet , add medias from a internet URL, or add embeded videos from Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe... :
Copy
and paste to upload, choose a part of your image in Photoshop, or
choose and copy some files in Windows Explorer, then paste it to UMG:
Adjust sort orders , Use mouse drag and drop to easily adjust sort orders:
Crop or adjust images on Picnik.com , Crop, adjust, resize, rotate images on Picnik.com:
Auto
resize and thumbnail generation , you can enable auto resize to resize
all uploaded images to predefined resolution, a thumbnail will be
generated for each media uploaded.
Permission control , define 4 kinds of permissions on your album:.
Quick edit , easily edit media title, description and tags in lightbox window,
Appearance settings , most media players offers plenty of options to customize its layout, color scheme and behaviors:
See shooting places on Google Maps , see the places you took these photos, click a place to see photos in around area:
Sell digital products , sell the high quality version of your photos or any other digital products with UMG:
Sell image prints , sell image prints with UMG, admin users can define colors, borders and sizes:
iPhone/iPad
compatible , if you choose a flash player, UMG automatically downgrade
to the "Fallback choice", a html player when flash plugin is not
available.
Integrate
with Amazon S3 , UMG can automaticaly transfer your medias to Amazon S3
server for reliable, fast, and easy to access storage:
Features at a galance
Architecture
- Support 4 kinds of medias: images, videos (.flv / .mp4), audios and flash movies(.swf).
- Can be configured
to run in 4 different modes. you can either mentain the gallery by your
self or let your site users to contribute their work.
- UMG 7 comes with 14 Flash presentations and 15 HTML presentations, each presentation has its unique appearance.
- Automatically choose an HTML presentation for iPhone/iPad users if your premier presetation is in Flash category.
- Fully tested with all major platforms so you can expect all of your visitors can see your gallery properly.
Albums support
- Organize medias by
albums, an "album" could be a product category, a specific date range, a
travel destination, a family member... etc.
- Many presentations allow you to create unlimited albums in each gallery instance.
- Some presentations support parent/child albums.
- Use mouse drag & drop to resort albums.
- When enable auto resizing on an album, large images will be resized down automatically.
- UMG Classic and
some other flash presentations support background music, you can upload
an mp3 to tell a story or set a background mood.
Easily add medias
- Choose supports medias(images, videos, audios, flash movies) in each gallery instance.
- Automatically creates a thumbnail for every media uploaded.
- Upload bulk medias from your local computer via our Flash uploader or tranditional HTML uploader.
- Upload a ZIP with multiple files inside.
- Copy(CTRL+C) one or more images in Windows Explorer or Photoshop, paste(CTRL+V) them to UMG and get uploaded.
- Import medias from your server folder.
- Add a media from internet URL.
- Add a video from Youtube URL or Youtube embed code.
- Add a media from any piece of HTML code.
- You can also
manually upload your medias to specific server directory, UMG scans it
at a regular basic and automatically add them to database.
Media management
- Easily change the default sorting method.
- Use mouse drag & drop to resort medias.
- Rotate images to left or right.
- Need to crop or edit an image? you don't need Photoshop, just edit images online by Picnik or Snipshot.
- Move a media to another album.
- For videos, audios and flash movies, you can manually upload a thumbnail to replace the default one.
RSS
- UMG publishs RSS feed.
- UMG can subscribe to any RSS feed with media extension.
- Subscribe to a Flickr or Picasa RSS feed.
- Automatically refreshs subscribed RSS feeds.
Permissions
- Admin users can control which roles have full access to a gallery.
- Admin users can separately control which roles are able to upload/approve/manage/view in each album.
- Permissions can also be set on individual users.
Google maps
- If you take photos
by iPhone or other cameras which include a GPS chip, UMG is able to read
the information where you took it, if your camera doesn't include GPS
chip, UMG allows you to manually mark this point on Google maps.
- When view a photo, Show on Google maps the place where the author took it.
- If you are a
frequent traveler or you are building a community website, you can use
UMG-FreeContentList module to display a world map or specific area map
with red markers of places which have photos, so your visitors may know:
"Oh, you have been to Africa!" and click a marker to see photos you
took in this area.
Integrate with 3rd party products
- UMG can be
seamlessly integrated with Amazon S3, you can securely store your
pictures in datacenters of amazon to save your disk space and bandwidth
cost.
- You
have Ultra Video Gallery 4 installed on same website? UMG can use UVG's
video encoding engine to encode videos online, with this integrateion
you can upload videos in any format.
- You have Active Social 1.8+ installed on same website? UMG can post a event to active social once a new media is uploaded.
Selling
- Sell digital products in any format.
- Sell photo prints, customers can choose color, border and shipping method.
- Accepts payment by paypal.
Community features
- Some presentation offers an URL to share the current media .
- When work in Personal Gallery mode, offers a unique URL to share one's own medias.
- You use any profile module? you can use UMG-FreeContentList module to show photos from this user when view one's profile.
Security
- Attach a predefined watermark to uploaded images.
- Medias can optionally be approved before making public.
- Use Disk Quota feature to set the maximum medias an user can upload.
- Each image can have
a "raw file", which can either be manually uploaded or automatically
saved, raw file are saved in secured place.
EXIF information of photos
- Read taken date from EXIF header for sorting purpose .
- Some presentations allow you to see the EXIF information inside the viewer or in a independent page.
User interface
- Use keyboard
instead of your mouse to do the navigation. Back, Forward, Play, Stop,
etc. This feature is available in many presentations and lightbox view.
- Localize it to your own language.
- Search medias via DNN search or UMG's dedicated search module.
- Rate and comment a media.
- List images in
calendar grid, you can get an overview of all new images added in a
month, click a day or week to see pictures added in this day or week.
Edition difference
UMG have 14 flash presentations and 15 html presentations in total, all of them are available in Professsinal Edition, check this page to see the feature difference, or visit our sample galleries to see the typical appearance.
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You
can purchase a single use license if you intend to use UMG in a single
DotNetNuke installation, or for enterprise users, an unlimited use
license is available for using UMG in multiple websites directly owned
or operated by single business entity or organization.
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Unlimited |
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Unlimited ** |
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Standard Edition: 69.95$
Professional Edition: 109.95$ |
Standard: 249.95$
Professional:379.95$ |
Professional: 499.95$ |
* A
installation license allows you to install and use this product on
single DotNetNuke installation, which can host multiple sub portals.
** Ristricted to be used on unlimited websties owned by SAME
ONE, either an individual or an entity, to use this product on multiple
websites owned by different owners, you should purchase appropriate
license for each owner, or contact service@bizmodules.net for a hosting
license.
Sample and Trial
Visit http://www.bizmodules.net to see some sample galleries, a downloadable trial is available in Downloads page, fell free to play it before you buy.
User Guide
UMG comes with a well-documented PDF user guide, click here to download it.
Upgrade policy
To upgrade from UMG 2.x ~ 6.x, please use our license upgrade program,
users who purchased UMG 6.x after December 1st 2010 are eligible for
free upgrade, other users will get upgrade discounts depending on your
purchase date. After upgrading your serial number, visit our Downloads page to download UMG 7.
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