Publisher's Description:
From Photodex Corporation
Do-It-Yourself Slide Shows with ProShow Gold
ProShow Gold makes it easy to turn ordinary digital photos into a slide show masterpiece. Motion effects, like pan, zoom and rotate, make still photos come to life. Edit your photos, videos and music directly in ProShow Gold 3.0, and save time, making it easier to customize your slide show.
Unlimited Layers and Creative Control
With ProShow Gold 3.0, you can add an unlimited number of layers to any slide in your shows. Each layer has its own combination of motion effects allowing you to create unique photo montages, video overlay compositions, and more. One-click photo correction, red-eye removal and a built-in cropping and rotation tool bypass the photo-preprocessing step completely.
Optimized Workspace
ProShow Gold has a refreshed user interface that features a waveform in the soundtrack bar, a new slide options dialog and a favorites pane. Toggle between the normal Slide List view and Timeline view in ProShow Gold 3.0, simplifying precise matching of audio to the slide show. Important folders are close at hand with the new, customizable favorites pane.
Enhanced Video Output Options
Expanded output options in ProShow Gold give more flexibility in the way you share your slide shows. Slide shows can now be output to Adobe® Flash®, Windows Media Video (WMV), HD Video and QuickTime®, in addition to the standard DVD and CD disc formats.
It's easy to tell your story with ProShow Gold
Features:
Easily Add Photos & Videos to Your Show
Simply drag and drop your photos and videos onto the Slide List to add them to your show. Each slide can have an unlimited number of layers meaning you can create unique photo montages, add borders to images and more. You can even edit your video clips directly in ProShow Gold by using the built-in video trimmer. Use a transition to fade into the next slide for a seamless effect.
* Add an unlimited number of layers to any slide
* Drag and drop to easily add content to a show
* Supports 100+ file types
* Transparency support for PSD, PNG, TIFF and GIF files
* Built-in video trimmer crops video clips precisely
* Over 280 quality transition effects to choose from
Add Motion to Still Images
Add a custom motion effect to any photo or video in your slideshow. Zoom into a point of interest, pan across a panoramic image or rotate any photo. A little bit of motion can add a lot of interest to your slide show. Think about how you see images when watching TV; they are rarely static and still on the screen. Add simple pans, zooms or rotations for the best overall effect.
* Bring any photo to life with motion effects
* Precise motion control—use composition lines for perfect alignment
* Scale/zoom photos to any size with increased zooming range
* Set acceleration styles for motion effects
* Randomize motion effects for your slide show in seconds
Use Slide Styles for Instant Effects
Slide Styles are pre-made effects that you can apply to any slide in your show. Just drop in your images, add a Slide Style and the rest is done for you. Slick, professional-looking effects in an instant. ProShow Gold comes with 50 must-have Slide Styles. You can also create, save and re-use your own Styles. Build up a library of styles or share styles with other ProShow users.
* One-click special effects
* 50 built-in Slide Styles
* Create and save your own Styles
Edit Photos & Create Custom Captions
ProShow Gold has a sea of built-in photo editing tools. Turn a color photo into black and white, adjust brightness or contrast, remove red-eye and more. You can also add custom captions to any slide in your show. Captions are great for creating intro slides, adding descriptive captions to photos, creating scrolling credits and more.
* Easily remove red-eye from photos
* One-click auto fix for photos
* Add borders and drop shadows to any photo or video
* Set captions to any font, size, style and color
* Add fun to your captions—choose from the expanded set of 100+ caption effects
Share Your Shows at Home or On-the-Go
ProShow Gold has more output options than any other slideshow software on the market. Output your slide shows directly to all the major disc formats including DVD, Blu-ray & CD. Upload shows directly to the web through YouTube, Flash, QuickTime or Photodex's own streaming ProShow Presenter. You can put your shows on portable devices like the iPhone, iPod, Blackberry & more.
* Burn to DVD, CD & Blu-ray
* Built-in YouTube uploader
* Stream shows online with Flash, QuickTime or Presenter
* Output to portable devices like the iPhone, Blackberry & more
* Upload and share your shows online for FREE at photodex.com
Changelog for this release:
New! Create Shows Automatically
- Wizard effortlessly builds complete shows with photos, videos, music and effects
- Wizard intelligently adds effects and builds a custom show with your content
- Nearly instant preview of your show no need to wait for rendering
- Wizard shows can be edited in ProShow for full creative control
- Add photos, videos, text and music
- Control order of content, trim videos, and edit text
- Add your own custom soundtrack
- Pick from 14 different themes
- Create your own themes, and edit existing themes
- Bias the energy level to create shows that are calm, or shows that are a little crazy
New! Over 110 New Transition Effects
- New effects you can use in any show
- Page curl, camera flash, gloss, curved path and more
- ProShow Gold now includes over 390 transition effects
- Add even more transitions with new Transition Packs
New! All New Transition Chooser
- Completely redesigned interface for browsing and selecting transitions
- Categories let you easily search similar effects
- See the name and description of the selected effect
- Single-click to preview, double-click to apply (or just select, and click Apply)
- Drag the Transition Chooser to any spot on your screen
- From the preferences, configure ProShow to open the Transition Chooser where you left it
- Resize the Transition Chooser to control how much you see at once
New! New Interface for Creating a New Show
- Improved New Show interface provides more options for starting a new show
- Launch the wizard to build a show automatically
- Create a new blank show, and specify the title and aspect ratio
- Open any recently used show
- Browse for an existing show to open
- New Show interface opens automatically at startup (can be disabled)
New! Over 90 New Slide Styles
- Apply these new effects to any slide
- Focused on elegant and essential effects that work well in all shows
- ProShow Gold now includes over 140 slide styles
New! Improved Video Creation
- Support for HD uploads to Vimeo
- Support for YouTube shows up to 15 minutes (previously limited to 10 minutes)
- Enhanced the overall quality of several video formats when using the Device Output feature
- Improved quality of MPEG 4 based video output
Other Changes and Improvements
- Video trim values are now maintained when applying Slide Styles
- Folders list now provides access to Windows Music and Videos folders
- Fixed problem with audio clicks / blips at the beginning and end of audio tracks
- Fixed crash condition in output processes caused by trimmed / cropped video layers
- Fixed problems where layers in some shows could appear black
- Fixed missing save confirmation process when opening show from outside ProShow and show is already open
- Fixed quality problem affecting left channel of AAC based video output
- Fixed problem where Windows Taskbar could cover Choose Transition dialog
- Fixed video thumbnail option for Blu-ray menus
- Fixed rare problem where progressive encoded video output could be interlaced
- Fixed problem where layer Flip options could be reset when changing source files
- Fixed typo in Synchronize Show to Soundtrack dialog
- Fixed problems with AAC audio in video output
- Fixed problems where the Total Time field in Slide Options could fail to update
- Fixed startup problem caused by text setting in Windows 7
- Fixed video import failure affecting some MOV files
- Fixed the Pause button in DVD disc rendering dialog
- Fixed problem where video rendering could appear to stall on some shows
- Fixed problem where changing the source file for a video layer could incorrectly update slide time
- Fixed label in list of caption texture scaling options
- Fixed problem with missing right click menu for slide background image field
- Fixed problem where current slide name could fail to appear in Rename Slide dialog
- Fixed problem where MP4 files could fail to show in open file dialogs
- Fixed problem with Vimeo output
- Fixed problems with show backgrounds set to solid color
- Fixed problem where some MP3 files could fail to import properly
- Added option to cancel content import processes within the wizard
- Added ability to select multiple pieces of content at once in the wizard
- Shows created from wizard now include theme and energy values in Show Notes
- Fixed video import problem where multiple crash reports could occur
- Fixed problem where slide sounds could end prematurely
- Fixed crash problem that could occur while loading a slideshow
- Fixed problem where ProShow could appear to hang if closed while minimized
- Fixed problem where some MP3s were being reported as invalid
- Fixed crash caused by having too few layers when applying a slide style
- Fixed problem where some video layers could playback too quickly
- Fixed problems with layer order in shows created by the wizard
- Fixed problem where blank shows could be created with the wrong custom aspect ratio
- Fixed problems caused by changing title of Blank Show in New Slide Show dialog
- Fixed crash condition that could occur after applying a slide style
- Fixed problem where slides could become blank after sending a Problem Report
Requirements:
800x600 display, 1GHz+processor, 512MB memory, Accellerated 3D graphics-64 ram, DirectX 9.0 +