ProShow - How to Make a Good Show Great!

Elevate Your ProShow Productions: Mastering the Details

Unlock the potential of your ProShow Productions and transform them from good to great with this comprehensive course. Discover how mastering subtle details can make all the difference in creating truly captivating slideshows. Learn essential techniques for working with less-than-perfect photos and effectively customizing pre-designed Slide Styles and Templates to perfectly complement your visuals.

Image Enhancement Techniques:

• Image Adjustments: Learn to refine your photos with essential tools like crop and colorize to improve image quality.
• Color Correction with Colorize: Correct color imbalances and restore vibrancy to your images.
• Sharpening & Cropping: Enhance blurry photos and optimize composition using sharpening and cropping tools.
• Free Editing Software: Pixlr: Explore the use of Pixlr for additional image editing capabilities.

Dynamic Video Backgrounds:

• Video Backgrounds: Add depth and visual interest to your slides.
• Color Matching: Easily change the color of your video backgrounds to seamlessly match your slideshow theme.
• Looping Video: Create continuous, mesmerizing effects with looping video backgrounds.
• Video Speed Control: Adjust the playback speed of your video backgrounds for pacing and impact.
• Lower Thirds from Video: Create professional-looking lower thirds directly from your video backgrounds.

Integrating Video Content:

• Audio Balancing: Achieve perfect harmony by balancing soundtrack music with audio within your video files.
• Video Trimming: Precisely trim your video clips to the desired length.
• Slide & Video Synchronization: Perfectly synchronize slide timing with your video clips for seamless transitions.
• Adding Video Layers: Enhance your slides by adding video layers for dynamic effects.
• Video Adjustments: Apply visual enhancements like vignettes and drop shadows to your video clips.
• Video Start Time Adjustment: Fine-tune the start time of your video clips to align with slide timing.
• Picture-in-Picture: Create engaging picture-in-picture effects using video files, graphics, and animated text.
• Video Cropping: Adjust video image scale with cropping.

Music & Legal Considerations:

• Copyright & Royalty-Free Music: Understand the legalities surrounding copyrighted and royalty-free music for your slideshows.
• Timeline Mode Editing: Master the timeline mode for precise audio editing.
• Waveform Zooming: Utilize waveform zooming for detailed audio editing.
• Music Trimming: Trim music in both the Trim Window and the Timeline Mode.
• Music Offseting: Offset multiple music tracks in the Timeline Mode for creative layering.
• Manual Crossfades: Create smooth transitions between music tracks with manual crossfades.

Slide Style Customization:

• Orientation Flexibility: Adjust Slide Styles to fit both tall and wide photos.
• Keyframe Timing: Use keyframes and Add Time to customize the timing of pre-designed Slide Styles.
• Graphic Layer Customization: Modify graphic layers within pre-designed Slide Styles.
• Theme Adaptation: Easily change graphics to adapt a style from one theme (e.g., Fall) to another (e.g., Summer).
• Transition-Only Shows: Create entire slideshows using only transitions!

Template Mastery:

• Template File Types: Understand the difference between .psh (Template Show File) and .pst (Template File).
• Template Customization: Create a Slide Style from an existing template.
• Template Extension: Extend or shorten templates to fit your needs.
• Project Combining: Open multiple shows or templates within a single project.

Menu Design:

• Custom Menus: Create custom menus for single shows.
• Multi-Page Menus: Design menus with multiple pages and links for complex slideshows.
• Executable Menus: Customize advanced features found only in Executable Menus.

Output & Advanced Features:

• Output Settings: Choose the optimal output settings for your slideshow.
• Multiple Sound Files: Add multiple sound files to a single slide.