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 30+ 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 Flash presentations to create high quality image galleries with rich user experience, or choose from numerous HTML presentations to host medias with completely cross-platform support including iPhone / iPad.

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 30+ completely different presentations (media viewers): UMG is an "all-in-one" gallery solution, offering 30+ 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)

What's new in version 8.10 & 8.10.1

• Import Facebook albums and photos

  UMG 8.10 allows you to import all of your Facebook albums and "photos of you" to a local UMG gallery:
  
  

• UMGClassicNG now can be localized

• Fixed a bug that images subscribed from Picasa may not be correctly saved.

What's new in version 8.9

• UMGClassic of Next Generation

UMG Classic is the first image viewer developed for Ultra Media Gallery, Since UMG 8.9 it is now replaced by our new UMGClassicNG presentation.

The new viewer offers a complete new look and feel, multi media content support, mobile support, and Facebook-style tagging feature, UMGClassicNG is now our number 1 recommended choice for medium and large scale image and media galleries, click the link below to try it.

What's new in version 8.8

• WidescreentTour1 presentation 2.0

  We started to offer WidescreenTour1 presentation since April 2010, it was originally designed as a flash player with image and video support. Many users liked this presentation but failed to adopt it because they need it to be cross-platform supported, in UMG 8.8 we fully rewrote it with html and javascript and make it even more powerful.
  
  The new presentation offers a new "Adjust Layout" feature, which allows admin users to manually adjust thumbnail layouts with direct mouse drag and drop, Click below screenshot to visit our sample gallery and see how you can benefit from it.
  
  

For more information on the latest enhancements to UMG, please see the Release Notes.

Edition Difference

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.

	UMGClassicNG (since UMG 8.9) Replaces piror UMG Classic and ShadowViewer presentation Support multiple albums & nested albums Fully works on mobile devices Touch & Swipe on mobile devices Support all 4 kinds of medias Support embeded videos from Youtube or other websites. Easily share on social websites like Facebook, Twitter. Google Plus ... Facebook-style photo tagging
	WidescreenTour1 2.0 (since UMG 8.8) Support multiple albums Can play both images and videos Support embeded contents like Youtube video Automatically plays the 1st video in an album Display thumbnails either in random or fixed place Admin users can manually adjust positions of image thumbnails.
	Smooth Gallery 2.0 (since version 8.6) Support multiple albums. Playlist can be placed on top, right, bottom, or left side. Menu and thumbnails vertical or horizontal orientation. Google Terminal Dosis font. Ideal choice to replace prior flash presentations like: UMG Classic, UMG Professional ...
	Translucent (since version 8.4) Blur effect caption Touch swipe iPhone/iPad and Andriod devices friendly Navigation viriations.
	Tonic Gallery (since version 8.3) Support multiple albums. Powered by our customized version of prettyPhoto lightbox plugin. Social share links (Twitter, Facebook) Bullets pagination.
	Slider Master (since version 8.2) Based on the brilliant work of NivoSlider Support images + videos + mp3 audios Choose to display 7 UI elements on your slider, like bullets navigation, direction button, caption area... When auto play enabled, switch to next slide till a video/audio slide is finished.
	CarouselEvolution (since version 8.1) Ideal for sliders and rotators 9 kinds of alignment, 9 kinds of carousels. Fully works on iPhone/iPad and other mobile devices.
	TripleLayerSlider Ideal for sliders and rotators Android-style multi-layer floating effect. Fully works on iPhone/iPad and other mobile devices.
	3D Wall Nice 3D wall effect in Safari browsers(including iPhone/iPad) Mousewheel support Fully works on iPhone/iPad and other mobile devices.
	Piece Rotator Play images, videos and even flash movies together Cool transition effects Dozens of configuration options
	Multi Media Gallery Support images, videos, audios and Flash movies(.swf) Support multiple albums Play medias in lightbox window Use Html 5 <VIDEO> and <AUDIO> tag for iPhone/iPad. Fully works on iPhone/iPad and other mobile devices.
	WidescreenTour2 Support images & videos Pure CSS + Javascript implementation A nice folding effect Choose from multiple albums at gallery bottom Fully works on iPhone/iPad and other mobile devices.
	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 Fully works on iPhone/iPad and other mobile devices.
	UMG Professional Professional photo gallery Can enter full screen mode Show photos' EXIF information inside the viewer Admin can edit a photo just inside the viewer
	WidescreenShowroom Support images and videos Quick navigation(hover an item to open it) Integrated compact video player

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.

Image slideshow (Default)	Image slideshow (FloatThumb)
Image slideshow (Tube-800x566)	Image slideshow (Title-Bottom)
Html content slideshow (Title-Top)	Html content slideshow (Title-Right)

Features that makes UMG unique

One module, 30+ media viewers , when setup a new gallery, you can choose desired media viewer from 3 categories, 30+ options:

UMG Uploader , the IOS application that allows you to upload photos directly from your iPhone:

Suggest how to choose a presentation , the suggestion feature can help you to easily find what presentation(media viewer) to use:

Mixed media gallery , serve images + videos + audios + flash movies in single gallery:

Mobile-Device Friendly , UMG automatically switchs to the image viewer that is specially designed for mobile devices:

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:

Html 5 Upload , Simply drag files to the stage to upload, or manually select files to upload, no browser plugin required!

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 30+ Flash and HTML presentations, each presentation has its unique appearance.
• Can give you suggestions if you don't know what presentation to choose.
• 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.
• Some flash presentations support background music, you can upload an mp3 to tell a story or set a background mood.

Easily add medias

• Use our free IOS applicaton, UMGUploader, to upload photos from your iPhone.
• 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.
• Automatically switchs to mobile-device-friendly image viewer, when the client visit UMG gallery with a mobile device.

Edition difference

Unlike prior versions, all UMG 8 presentations are available in Express Edition, Standard Edition, and Professsinal Edition, but the number of galleries you can create are different in these 3 versions, compare the edition difference by below table to find out what you need to buy.

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

Upgrading from UMG 7 is free, simply install UMG 8 to overwrite UMG 7.

You may get upgrade discounts for older UMG versions depending on your order date, please use our license upgrade program to upgrade your license before installing UMG 8.