Photodex Proshow Effects Pack (Full Crack)
Kirstie Bendel
However, Photodex decided to pull the plug on the service. Its servers were shut down on January 31, 2020. Their official website photodex.com no longer provides any product or service, instead, the website owner recommended Photopia as an alternative slideshow maker to the ProShow products.
ProShow Web was launched in 2010 on photodex.com. This online service integrated the slideshow making feature of the ProShow software, and offered downloadable effects and other creative packages to level up video creation.
Photodex Proshow Effects Pack (Full Crack)
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The UI of ProShow Gold is timeline-based, though its early versions don't have multiple tracks on the timeline. Users can import photos and videos onto the timeline, set their respective duration, and add transitions and effects. Background music can be imported to a dedicated audio track, with wave form displayed.
For photos, there are some handy editing features and effects. You can blur a photo in video, and adjust its brightness, white point, black point, contrast, hue, saturation and more right inside the software. There are photo fix tools such as red-eye removal, photo sharpening, etc.
To stylize the photo slideshow, ProShow Gold also allows you to add vignettes, colorize images, create text animations, and add motion effects. For instance, you can create the trendy Ken Burns effect to animate the photos.
As a professional slideshow and presentation software, ProShow Producer includes everything that ProShow Gold offers. Users can bring in photos, videos and songs, and add transitions, video effects, and captions.
There were video effects popular at that time, such as the page-flipping simulation, vignettes, photo walls, sparks, and fades. Besides 800+ motion and transition templates, users can also tap on the customizable settings to create endless variations.
Another product from Photodex is ProShow Web. It is an online video slideshow maker, inheriting some of the basic features form the ProShow desktop lineup. Claiming to help users to create slideshows without any editing experience, ProShow Web included some of the presets and templates from its desktop counterparts, making it easy to add text, animations, transitions, sound effects, and video FX.
It is still unknown why Photodex had decided to terminate their business. If you visit their official website photodex.com these days, you would only see an official recommendation to use Photopia as a replacement for slideshow creation.
With the exception of "Ken Burns" effects, PowerPoint is by far the easiest slide show program to work with. You can rearrange slides on a virtual light table, give them titles and program notes, apply several transition types. You can also print and distribute program notes and thumbnails if appropriate.
Smoothshow Pro. $50-70. I've been using this one for a couple of years. Recommended by Tim Grey. Offers manual advance that works with transitions. Also has pan and zoom, but harder to control than other software packages. Can create a stand alone .exe file. This is a very good thing because the player is built into this file. One doesn't have to worry about needing a media player to go along with the show. By click on the .exe file, the show runs at full screen. Unlike other software that offers this feature, this program makes copies of all the images in a folder you specify. The whole folder containing the .exe file and copied images are needed for the presentation. The images are renamed to image1, image2, image3, etc. I found the effects a little rough when the show ran they were jumpy and not smooth. The software also has a couple of glitches that I'd like to see gone: One is when moving slides around on the slide sorter. When the mouse bumps into the top/bottom of the screen, it's hard to get the software to scroll up/down to get to the rest of the light table. If you have ever used Excel, you know what I mean: No control ovedr scrolling. Another is when a slide is inserted in the slide show twice, a copy of that image is created in the folder where that image resides in your computer. And, it may be me, but I can't find a use for the Slide titles that takes up room on the left hand side of the screen. It can be set to see the image names but it's left justified so I can only see the directory structure (i.e. C:/photos/process/....) is visible without manually scrolling all the time. Or, it lists the image names as: Image 1, image 2, etc. Neither are particularly useful. Lastly, when using the Slide Sorter, scrolling using the mouse wheel doesn't work as it should. What scrolls is the info in the Slide Title window. So, one has to resort to using the scroll bars all the time. Can't remember what version I had but I downloaded an upgrade recently and found that it is the same version I bought a couple of years ago. The website was last updated in 2005. So, don't know if it's actively being re-written.
Adobe Lightroom. Beta 4.1 (Free but soon to be $200). OK, I'm sure it's me because everyone is raving about this software but I couldn't arrange images easily. There is only one type of transition: Fade. Works for me but you may want to have a few others. No Ken Burns effects.
Microsoft PhotoStory 3. Free. It's a good deal if you want simple shows with panning and zooming. Unfortunately, it puts them in automatically for you so you have to click on each slide individually to change them. There's no way to eliminate or change them globally. While I want to have full control over the effects, it's pretty cool how and where it puts the effects in. I replicated some when I created my own show. It also allows slides to rotate while it is on the screen. Easy to move slides around to organize the show. Creates wmv files. No ability to manually advance the show. No way to set transition between slides globally. Have to click on each image separately. Interface isn't that great: Can't maximize the window so you're squinting at a small window in the middle of your monitor. Limited settings and pretty basic but it's free... Can create wmv files. Did I say that already?
Adobe Premier Elements. v3.0 $90 at Amazon.com. Dave Dube wrote that he uses this one. It does have the comfortable PS interface. It had tons of control over the timing of Ken Burns effects and transitions. Very easy to control acceleration/deceleration of effects (Usually you want to have panning and zooming begin slowly and then pick up speed, like a car starting out. Rather than just going from 0 to 60mph in a split second.) Panning movements can follow Bezier (curved) lines. Obviously, it can rotate slides in addition to changing saturation, hue, brightness, fading, etc. of an image while it's on the screen. The concerns I had was that it took a long time to render the shows and the file size was rather large. The program is also pretty sequency in that, one needs to decide the order of slides prior to inserting them into the the window that holds the slides chronologically as it's tough to move them around afterwards. Had a similar issue with transitions and setting the timing of how long the slides are on the screen. If you forget to set this before inserting the slides into this windwo, you have to change each image manually. I also found the transitions and motions to be rough and not smooth when viewing the slide show afterwards. I should add that I tried 10 different programs that run wmv files and found them to all do this (PS, I'm running a reasonably fast computer and video card). This software also has a slow start up time. Disliked how pressing the play button would show the whole slide show and not just the current image that I was adding effects to ... Most other packages just showed the effect, stopped and then allowed you to refine it.
ProShow Gold by Photodex. 3.0 $70. Lot of folks on PN like this software based on my searches of previous posts. Has a great interface. Does have the Ken Burns effects but panning is along straight lines and not curved ones. Easy to move slides around within the show. Can rotate images while on screen.
Creates the .exe quickly. This .exe file is all you need to cart around to make the presentation. The images are incorporated into the .exe file. It runs full screen. Can match the next slide to come up on the screen in the same place where the current one ends. A lot of right clicking menus built in to speed up the designing of the show. Can create layered slides, meaning that one can have a slide with multiple images (Think collage). Each image on the slide can have its own effects. I'm would imagine that the Adobe products do this, too. I found this software to create smooth shows so long as the panning path isn't long or the zooming isn't too extreme. Disadvantages: Can't control when the Ken Burns effects begin and end. They start/stop when the slide comes up on the screen. Similar to others posters, I hit computer glitches and did have the software lock up twice.
Photodex. ProShow Producer 3.0 $250. Identical to ProShow Gold but with more features: Can create Bezier lines that panning images can follow. Images can fade in/out while on screen. Can adjust brightness, contrast, color of images while on screen. Sharpening an image is also an option but I couldn't get this one to work. One may have to import an unsharpened image into the slide show for this to work. Allows for manual advancement of slides during a presentation. This was the only software I found that offered this. But, it's not smooth with some transition effects (e.g. fade out). When creating the show, one can select the option of setting the color space to sRGB. This doesn't change the original images and can save the step of using Irfanview, etc. to make copies and conversions of your images to create a new set with sRGB color space. Similar to Premier Elements and Photo to Movie, one can have the panning/zooming speed up/slow down while the image is up on the screen. Transitions and effects are jumpy in preview but smooth when running the .exe file.
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