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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:58:29 +0000

It should be feasible, there is many examples for smooth JS slideshows with transition effects, but at this point the best option should be flash.

By: larry

larry — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:27:53 +0000

@Bob,
This particular slide show you commented about is done with Javascript so no, Ken Burns effects are not possible. The benefit of using Javascript is speed… so fast you can’t notice any load time or delay of any kind but complicated graphics effects like Ken Burns aren’t possible.

Many non-technical slide shows styles can be produced with Lightroom…

Simpleviewer: http://lohrman.com/simple/index.html
monoslideshow: http://lohrman.com/Hui/index.html
slideshowpro: http://lohrman.com/sspro/index.html

By: Bob Ice

Bob Ice — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:06:46 +0000

Is it possible to incorporate Ken Burns effects with this type of show and or is a good viewer or template available for us non tech types to work into a website?

By: Kelly Hachtel

Kelly Hachtel — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:34:07 +0000

Thanks for your comments on our slideshows at duckin.com! I am the webmaster and also do extensive Photoshop corrections for all of Rick Miner's listings, and have been with duckin.com for the last 11 years (the last 8 months as a contractor, since I moved to Los Angeles). I should say that Aaron Leitz is a fantastic photographer, and all of the Photoshop skills in the world can't make bad photos look good:) I did choose to use JavaScript for the short load time, since the purpose of having a unique URL (www.duckin.com/big_picture) for each of our luxury listings is to display large photos, giving our Buyers a more detailed view of the properties. Rick asked me to post another 2 urls for the Photography for Real Estate group: www.AlkiBeachPenthouse.com and www.AlkiBeachPenthouse2.com. These penthouse condos were purchased just a week (or so) after the listing was input, by the same Buyers. They intend to combine the two homes to make a mega-luxury condo! The Buyers actually found these properties online on their own (while working with another Buyer's Agent, who failed to show these condos) and specifically asked their agent for a showing...WoW! Thanks again for everyone's comments! Kelly Hachtel mailto:KellyHachtel@ca.rr.com mailto:Kelly@duckin.com

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By: larrylohrman

larrylohrman — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:16:16 +0000

Marc,
I stand corrected. I didn’t look at the source. Aaron said it was java and I didn’t check that out. Absolutely, JavaScript is a different technology… I should have realized that it wasn’t a Java slide show by how fast it loads. Java is much slower!

Thanks for keeping me on the straight and narrow!

By: Marc Lacoste

Marc Lacoste — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 09:04:12 +0000

Aaron's work is superb, magazine quality. I'm not really passionate about real estate itself (un comble!), but this is really drawing me, as I can say that I could live here, and this is what I want to hear from my clients as an agent. As it better have to at $2M for two bedrooms, ouch. (as a side note, the duck is cute and memorable, but could have a not so good image)

By: Marc Lacoste

Marc Lacoste — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:54:14 +0000

This isn't a Java slide show! it's a JavaScript one, and it's a completely different beast. Java is a full-blown environment created by Sun without any ties (except the consonance) with JavaScript, which is a small script language for web browsers created by Netscape. Every web browser since 1997 is compatible de facto, the compatibility is broader than flash. Except for the too large images, it should be OK for cell phones, corporation-crippled browser, anything. Loading is instantaneous. Even Flash is too much for such a simple thing as a slideshow. look at the source code of Rick's page, it's really easy to understand.

By: larrylohrman

larrylohrman — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:05:35 +0000

Michael,
You have to project yourself into the role of a tour/slide show visitor. When you are looking through hundreds of homes you are expecting to click once and see something… if things don’t work you move on! You have no interest in figuring out why it doesn’t work, and where to go to download and install something to fix this Realtors marketing problem.

It’s not an issue of being simple and quick! When the tour or slide show doesn’t work users typically don’t even know what the problem is other than not pictured displayed. Typically nothing comes up and says “Java not installed… go to to java.com and download and install a free copy of Java”.

The point is: if a Realtor’s tour doesn’t just WORK with one click their marketing $ are wasted. With java tours will not work at least 15% (my anecdotal data suggests this number is much higher). All Realtors have to do to improve this to number to 0.9% is use Flash. It’s a no brainer!

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:02:52 +0000

This is another example of how great photography wins over the fad of 360 degree turns. People need to get over their prejudices about who owns what. Java is a standard that can’t be ignored. This is a delightful slideshow. And the photography makes it so. It’s better than most so called “virtual tours” ever could be.

PS. I just received a new “refurbished” laptop from Dell (a Windows XP Pro system). I had no problem installing Java (simple and quick).