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medium_pspPhotodex specializes in digital imaging software including Pro Show Producer in levels from beginner to professional photographers. As a photographer who likes to present proofs in appealing ways, Pro Show Producer is an important tool. Utilizing it you can quickly take 100 or 1000 photographs and develop them into a slide show complete with music, transitions and more.

This package is designed for the professional in mind, with its street price running about $250. The versions with fewer features, Pro Show Gold and ProShow Standard, are more for the mom and pop who want to put zip into their family photos and are geared for beginners. Pro Show Producer is designed for the professional photographer.

The main features include:

Layers

  • 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.
  • New! Turn any layer into a fully-customized mask to conceal or reveal aspects of underlying layers.
  • New! Add a gradient or solid color as a slide layer to a layer to get incredible results.
  • Spice up a presentation using interactive slide actions to launch PDFs, spreadsheets, web pages and more.
  • New! Set transition effects for individual layers. editing
  • Optimize your workflow using built-in image correction tools like sharpen, colorize, saturate and more.
  • New! Create enhanced borders for your photos and videos with ProShow Producer's all-new vignette effect.
  • New! Create Hollywood-style greenscreen effects with the all-new Chroma Key Transparency Tool.
  • Specify opacity for any layer on a slide.
  • New! Add depth to your composition by adjusting the color and opacity of a shadow on any layer in a slide.
  • New! Crop and rotate your photos and videos with precision.
  • New! Use the red-eye removal tool to correct any photo in your show in seconds.

Effects

  • New! Use adjustment effects to produce spectacular effects. Make a video move through color shifts or create a sequence of photo fades.
  • New! Add multiple keyframes to each adjustment effect.

Motion

  • Add motion like pan, zoom and rotate to any layer on a slide for a cinematic effect.
  • New! Zoom X and Y coordinates for a layer individually and zoom out further than ever before.
  • New! Create complex motion paths by setting multiple keyframe points on the keyframe timeline.
  • New! The fully-customizable slide preview grid allows you to accurately position your photos and videos on a slide.

Captions

  • Control the font, size and color of captions in your slides.
  • New! Use caption keyframing to create multiple caption motion effects on a single slide.
  • New! Animate your captions with more amazing effects to choose from than ever before.
  • Add interactive captions to launch actions like Pause, Resume, Next Slide, Previous Slide, Write Email and many more.
  • New! Gain greater design control over captions with ProShow Producer's new caption styles, caption line spacing and caption character features.

Music and Sounds

  • Enhance slide shows by dropping in any MP3 or WAV audio file.
  • Save an audio track directly from a CD and drop it right into your slide show.
  • Crop your audio and set fades using the built-in Audio Trimmer.
  • New! Built-in soundtrack waveform in slide list.

Backgrounds

  • New! Add interest to your slide shows with solid colors, gradients, or videos as backgrounds.
  • New! Use the new, built-in backgrounds to spruce-up your slide shows.
  • Control the adjustment levels of your background content.

ProShow Prodcuer 3.0 Output Formats

  • DVD (with PC playback)
  • VCD (with PC playback)
  • Autorun CD
  • Self-contained EXE
  • Share shows via email
  • Streaming web show
  • Free online show sharing
  • New! Streaming Flash video
  • New! Compressed AVI
  • New! Uncompressed AVI
  • New! QuickTime video
  • New! High definition video (HD)
  • New! Windows Media Video (WMV)
  • MPEG 1 and 2
  • Screensaver

Productivity

  • Use slide show templates to boost productivity.
  • ProShow Producer provides native support for RAW files from digital cameras.
  • Use ProShow Producer's Projects mode to streamline workflow.
  • New! ProShow Producer's refreshed user interface includes a soundtrack waveform, a new slide options dialog and a favorites pane.
  • New! Get a close-up view of your work with a click of the mouse using the new Full Screen View.
  • New! Recover moved or misplaced files from a show easily with the new Find Missing Files feature.
  • New! Take complete control over show timing with the new timeline view.

Business Oriented Features

  • New! Capture Frames feature allows you to output JPeG files of each slide for printing.
  • Watermark all the slides in your show with one click.
  • Include your personal branding information and logo on PC shows and DVD menus to promote your business.
  • Copy Protect CDs and EXE slide shows from unauthorized copying.

Another new feature is the Flash Video export. Add to this 280 quality transitions, and preset masks Vignettes, Zoom Control, Key Framing tools to amaze your audience, and set yourself apart from other photographers.

This software is not just for Photographers, though it also great for Corporate and Business presentations. Slide shows for presenting business plans, new innovations and more are quickly produced.

This is a great bit of software that you must consider. At $250 it is not a huge investment.