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ProShow lets you create amazing slide shows that play on your PC or TV. Create VCD, DVD and Blu-ray slide Shows. Use ProShow to easily create stunning slide shows for friends, family, business, or just for fun! Just select your photos and drop them in the show. Add a custom soundtrack or pick from over 280 stunning transition effects to add that final touch.
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Trialware ($70)  Win  Released:20120117 Size:31.9MB |
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Latest version: 5.0 (January 17, 2012) Download sites: Visit developer's site Supported operating systems: Windows
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New in ProShow Producer 5 View full changelog ProShow Producer ProShow Producer 5 is a major release that adds hundreds of new features and a complete redesign of the user interface. New GPU Accelerated Rendering ProShow 5 uses your graphics card (GPU) to speed up show playback Allows for higher resolution shows, including full-resolution HD playback Reduces distortion in photos due to rendering resolution and scaling Reduces jitters and jerky playback by balancing workload between CPU and GPU. Automatically falls back to non-GPU rendering on older systems. New 3D Tilt Add 3D perspective to layers Control horizontal and vertical title independently Use keyframes to create complex effects using tilt Apply tilt by dragging the icons centered on the edges of each layer Get precise tilt control using the scrollbars and edit fields Control easing (how tilting speeds up or slows down) Copy tilt options between keyframes, layers and slides Add modifiers to tilt values All New User Interface New Build, Design and Publish workspaces optimize the main window for each part of the show creation process. Enhanced color configurations give more control over colors used in the user interface. Set colors for text editors Darker color scheme makes photos stand out more, and increases contrast of white text. New Tools menu puts general tools like Collect Show Files and Manage Effects in one place. Improved Project options are now located with other file operations under the File menu. Access recently used projects from the ‘Open Recent’ menu. Create, save, and open projects from the File menu. Projects are now more seamlessly integrated and don’t prompt when switching to Project mode. New ‘Save Project As’ lets you save a copy of a project. Easily access project options by right-clicking on the Show Info bar. New ‘Add Show’ button in the Show Info pane lets you easily add additional shows to an open project. All new toolbars for Build, Design and Publish workspaces provide quick access to common tools. New buttons for Combine Slides, Menu, Blank/Title slides, and more. New Reset Slide button lets you wipe a slide with one click. Improved Folders list uses modern style icons and arrows. Improved File List File list can now be repositioned Can be hidden and shown Highlight of selected item is now more obvious. Enhanced ‘Used in Show’ indicator now shows how many times a photo is used in the show. Added ability to jump to the first slide that uses the selected file. Remodeled Slide List provides a cleaner list of slides and more detail Updated design removes some of the visual clutter from older version. Improved thumbnails are now larger A tab interface lets you switch between Slide List and Timeline modes. New ‘Open’ indicator shows which slide is currently open in Slide Options. Slides containing slide styles will show the style name in the Slide. Slide sounds are now displayed in the timeline even when there is no soundtrack Slide sounds now alternate colors to improve visibility and make overlaps more obvious Easily delete files from within ProShow from the right-click menu Easily duplicate soundtracks by right-clicking on them Slide list now maintains positions when switching between shows in a project Added option to copy applied slide style to other slides. Redesigned preview control bar gives more control and detail Completely redesigned control bar for the main preview. Now allows pause as well as the traditional stop. Adds a one-click full screen button. Improved, wider seek bar makes progression through the show more obvious, and provides more granularity when dragging. All new playback stats provide detail about the slide, transition, or file being displayed in the preview. Get the name of the file or slide. Get information about the selection (number of slides/files, total duration/size, etc). Get the name of the slide style or transition effect being played. Status bar (along the bottom of the window) has been removed to allow more room for other areas. Improved tooltips help identify options in the preview control bar. All new Slide Inspector provides detailed information about a slide from the main window. Name and number of slide Name of slide style, transition in, and transition out. Duration information for slide, including slide time, transition times, and total duration When the slide starts and ends, from the start of the show very helpful in timing to music. Number of layers and captions, plus information about how many have effects or motion applied. Slide notes All new Publishing Formats pane provides fast access to all output formats from the Publish workspace Includes every output format ProShow supports See a quick summary each format. Double-click to create. Improved keyboard shortcuts provide faster workflow Improved Show Info bar provides more functionality New tooltips provide information about the show. Expanded right-click options let you easily save or rename shows. Create and manage projects from the right-click menu. New ‘Add Show’ button when working in a project lets you easily add shows to a project. All New Effects Manager New Manage Effects window (Tools > Manage Effects) replaces the Manage Slide Styles and Manage Transitions windows from 4.x. Manage, create, and apply effects from one window. Apply slide styles to any number of selected slides at once. Manage themes without opening the wizard. Import any number of styles, transitions and themes at once. Improved importing lets you resolve conflicts for all, rather than having to click OK for each one. Improved exporting lets you simply specify a folder when exporting multiple items. Export and import themes. Hide / show any number of selected styles or transitions at once. Create styles and transitions directly from the Manage Effects window. Easily show or re-hide hidden items with a couple clicks. Multiple window sizes let you see more effects at once on larger screens. More Magical Wizard New ‘Automatic’ energy level forces your music and content to end at the same time. New Remix feature lets you open selected slides (or an entire show) in the Wizard to remix them. Improved support for square images makes it easier to use photos from services like Instagram. General Enhancements Improved default show title gets right to the point: “ProShow Slideshow” New default save location for new installs in ‘My Documents’ helps new users find their shows. Improved default web browser detection properly selects the default browser for links. For new installations, ProShow will now start full screen on most systems. ProShow will now let you know if you load a show that contains missing fonts. Improved ‘Find Missing Files’ window includes paths to files and gives more space to the filename. New preference lets you disable the warning when opening PSG shows in Producer Improved save confirmation When closing an unsaved show, confirmation now provides some detail about the show. When closing an unsaved project, confirmation now makes it obvious which items are shows, projects and menus. Improved audio syncing tool now remembers selected options ProShow 5 now requires an active Internet connection for registration and activation. Slide Styles are now cached during installation, removing the delay when running when opening Slide Options the first time. Added a preference to preview audio files using the default system player. Improved file properties window now shows the path to the file. New media source manager and support Use the new Media Source Manager to add and remove media source entries. Use media sources as shortcuts to sources of content on your computer. Improved media source system prevents overwritten media sources during ProShow installation that could lead to missing content. New Find Empty Placeholders tool helps identify empty layers. Easily locate empty layers caused by slide styles or show templates. Quickly open slides from the dialog to add missing content. Improved Collect Show Files Collecting show files now ensures that your show is saved before you start. After collection, ProShow lets you open the newly collected show, or return to the original copy. Improved collection system now collects unused content that’s still referenced (such as backgrounds and watermarks that are hidden). Redesigned Show Options New dialog allows for multiple window sizes, automatically selects a larger size on bigger screens. New Show Options navigation panel lets you navigate show options from a list of show elements, instead of tabs. Navigation panel is visible in all Show Options screens. One-click access to settings, watermark, background and tracks from anywhere in Show Options. Visual indicators in the navigation panel show thumbnails of the show, watermark and background. No more tabs. Show Captions have been removed from Show Options, and merged into the Slide Options window. New watermark image preview lets you see the original, unmodified image being used. New background preview shows the original, unmodified background of the show. New soundtrack interface provides better visibility of tracks The add button for soundtracks now supports adding multiple tracks at once. All new waveform view in Show Options lets you visualize the track, including trims, fades and color feedback on how much is used in your show. Easily duplicate soundtracks by right-clicking in the Soundtrack list. New Show Info panel provides a summary of your show. Location of the show’s PSH file. Last modified date. Which version of ProShow was last used with the show. Number of flagged slides. Total duration of the show. Average slide duration. Slide rate – the average number of slides per minute. Number of empty placeholders (empty layers added by slide styles or show templates that need to be filled) Totally Remodeled Slide ...
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I bought this program when it first came out. At the time it was very good but, limited in functionality. Later I switched to VideoStudio where I had multiple sound tracks, full control of sound, plus many other extras not present in this program. I would not recommend this program for slide shows as I see continued problems with sound exist. This was alluded to in a previous comment.
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One of the best photo slide show programs around. Does just about everything a person could want. However, they should really consider multiple sound tracks.. if you try to add extra sounds to the music track, as for instance a camera click or any other type of sound, it distorts the music playing. It is very hard to believe a program of this quality only has (1) ONE Sound Track to work with??? The only other fault is the price $$ of their Producer Pack, for that price you would think they would add another sound track option.
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Just completed my second show, this one much more complex than the first. I found to make full use of this program that you should consult not only the progrms "help" section but also familiarize yourself with the many helps on the Photodex website and, when necessary, the technical support people. Just looking at a few of the programs on the featured list on the website gave me a lot of ideas that I incorporated in the show that I just finished.
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This program brings to life digital photos and makes creating slideshows easy, fast and professional. The previous commentor has completely missed the intended use of this software. It is NOT for creating full featured DVDs. IT IS FOR CREATING SLIDESHOWS!!!!! I have used a number of slideshow apps and this is by far the best!
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Overall, ProShowGold (PSG) has all of the features one would require to build a slideshow DVD. The Pan/Zoom feature is the easiest I have found in any package. The UI is pretty straight forward for main tasks, but you have to be a pretty determined person to actually build a multi menu DVD production. I still use it on occasion for short slideshows, and Pan/Zoom on short video clips. BTW: When I downloaded their Version 2.0 DEMO several years ago, you could not generate final output without the word DEMO super-imposed diagonally across the screen. There are "No Free Rides" over at Photodex. I have reviewed the features contained in Prowshow Gold 3.00 and do not feel that it is worth the 59.99 upgrade fee. There have been no marked improvements - Just fixes to things that never worked well to begin with.(Photodex Formula: New Year = New Release = More $Revenue) This is simply to be an incremental upgrade. BTW: It appears that Photodex "Producer" is now their premium Product. So all of the features that should have gone into PSG 3.0, (With a $59.00 upgrade fee, have all been placed into the "PRODUCER" product with a MSRP of $249.95. Cool product, featured in many PC Magazine articles, slimy marketing/Management practices.)
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I love this program. I am 64 years young and somewhat technologically challanged, but I can still get this program to do wonders. Video and stills and the neatest menues I've seen. There is a learning curve and that's where their excellent customer service department come in handy. Their customer service department there in Texas is the best I have ever used. Plus there is no extra charge for the many calls for help they have given me. They are patient and will stay on the line with you till the problem is solved. I am so glad I followed the advice of a professional on this purchase. No, I don't work for the company, I'm a retired school teacher. I just love telling people about the things that work like they are supposed to work. Regards, Tom
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Ok this program is very very slow to do anything with. Could not figure out how to create sub-menu's at all. Just seems to create a single slideshow from photo's you drag to it. Very poor program.
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Ulead's DVD Picture Show is much better. I did like the 16x9 option which Ulead doesn't have, but overall it doesn't cut it for me.
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Too early to tell wether it's a good product, I stopped installing when the trial version displayed the license agreement: | 8. Under this agreement, you acknowledge and | understand that this software and associated | Software will transmit information used by | this Software to Photodex for quality | assurance pruposes. Ah, not only that Photodex stores "anti-piracy-data" on my system and won't ever tell me how to remove it (that was #7 of that license agreement), the even spy on my. And even worse: with that agreement, you allow "associated Software" to spy on you, too. Hello? I'm going to buy another app, this really gets me down.
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Not a good program. I fiddled around for days, trying to get the soundtrack to mute while playing embedded video clips. The options are there, but they simply don't work correctly (the soundtrack fades out and comes back way to early, thus messing up the sound of the video). Else: nice transitions, but video quality inferior to Memories on TV.
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The interface was rather clumsy, and the learning curve steep. If you want output anything but VCD then you have to purchase Proshow Gold at $70, more than any other like program.
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The best on the market. Wish they would have add Unicode support and RTL but still the best.
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I really liked the variety of transistions and you can easily make sure your photos will be in the TV viewable area. Too bad this program couldn't produce a playable SVCD and it degraded the quality of my photos. Back to Memories on TV.
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What can I say... The best photo slide software in the market. Neither Photo2DVD nor MemoriesOnTV is comparable with the PhotoShow. And getting better and better.
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>>>..NOW since they seemed to get it working at our expense they come out with a new version and expect us to pay for it....
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Excellent application. I have use a few different slideshow apps and this is by far the best.
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Have Tried Memories on TV 2.17, Photo 2 VCD ver 3.8 and Proshow Gold 2.5. This is really the BEST program for the purpose. Initially it used to crash a lot but in the ver 2.5.1620 they have fixed the errors. Nice captions, Nice effects and other adjustments are also ok. overall a good software. They should have started a Forum for the users to give their suggestions. This way many users including users of trial versions can give their suggestions and improvements. Memories on TV is a good stable program also. But Photo2VCD is not at all comparable with these two softwares.
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Been using this product for about a year now and have just upgraded from version 2 to 2.5 - free of charge. Most useful change is the ability to sync selected slides to an audio track, making it slightly easier to align sound with visuals. Even more useful would be the ability to shift the audio track using the mouse or cursor keys and to be able to see the waveform. Add to that a proper time track so you could see a visual representation of the length of each slide and its relationship to the audio track and the package would be start to become much easier to use. I can can think of many other improvements but those just mentioned would be great start. Oh, I forgot to mention, it crashes when trying to render a large panorama to DVD
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Warning Proshowgold cant get it to work on Panasonic DVD DMR-95EH just cant get them to play on it although they do play on old Pioneer 626d really anoyed as this software is very and i mean very good. Only a couple of observations it would be good to be able to create your opwn menu layouts ie have totally user generated templates. Also a big irritation is that once you create your show you cant either move the show created file or the pictures as they point to each other so my top tip is to make sure you set a folder directory up first that you will be happy with before you start making the proshow files. Apart from that this as a really good software package, i just wish i could get it to work with my new dvd player
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Don't buy 2.5 This company is a very poor service company. I realize that when I purchased version 2.0 that I had free upgrades for a year, but little did I know that I would have to be doing numerous fixes thruout the year. Most of you that hung in there know that it was almost a daily chore to keep the build current and NOW since they seemed to get it working at our expense they come out with a new version and expect us to pay for it. Quite frankly I would think that WE should be paid as beta testers after all when we purchased the product we did this in good faith expecting a product that was finished.. NOT still in testing. I will post this everywhere I can think of on the internet relating to this product and I hope others will do the same!! Very dissatified.. Brenda
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Very good package but rather buggy. I've just reinstalled an earlier build because the latest (1592) appears to have problems with large panoramas.
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Haven't paid for it yet, but the zoom and Ken Burns effect, in combination, just runs along the bottom of the slide. It won't pan to the top portions of the slide. At least when exporting to mpeg. Otherwise very nice, but if it won't zoom properly, I won't buy it.
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Magix Photostory is cheaper and just as good of an app as ProShow Gold. I purchased both and I find Magix Photostory probable has more features plus motion menus, but a little more difficult to learn. It will also put together a slideshow automatically if you want. All you have to do is add photos and tell the app to create the slideshow. www.magic.com
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First off you can have multiple pan/zooms with Proshow Gold 2. Just add the photo twice or more. As far as the demo banner goes...yes, its gone when you purchase it. This is the best slideshow maker out there period.
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I have been using ProShow Gold since Version 1 and the company has a good support group. They allow you to put your slideshows up on the internet for others to view. It is a little pricey, but you get free updates. They made a big inprovment in their software from version 1 to version 2 and there was no additional charge for this great update. They also have monthly contest where you can win valuable prizes. I have found it better to create .iso files for DVD and then use Copy2DVD or a good burning tool to make a DVD. Photodex continues to improve this app. They also have lots of slideshows made with ProShow that you can view on their webpage.
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