SlideShowPro News

01.22.08 | Director 1.1.8 released

Primarily a bug-fix release, Director 1.1.8 is now available for download. Along with the minor bug fixes, it includes two changes that are worth noting here.

First, as more and more of you have taken advantage of using ImageMagick for image processing, we've noticed that most hosts use the 16-bit, default version of ImageMagick. While 16-bit image processing is useful for editing imagery, it really has no use when displaying optimized images on the web. Director 1.1.8 now automatically uses 8-bit processing for its on-demand image publishing, which in many cases will drastically reduce the file size of the optimized imagery. As always, your originally uploaded imagery remains untouched, only the optimized copies Director creates are affected.

Lastly, when the beta for SlideShowPro 1.7 was released, the new "vidpreview" parameter was not supported in Director. We've added that functionality in Director 1.1.8, so if you are testing out the new SlideShowPro beta your existing video previews will now also be published as the larger video preview.

For the rest of the changes, check out the Director version history.