ProShow Gold is a software that was designed to allow you create slideshows.

This software makes creating shows easy. Just drag photos into the show, set transitions and timing, and add sound tracks. Choose from over 170 professional quality transition effects.

Control timing of slides and transitions. Add sound tracks, complete with volume and fade controls. Add captions to slides and apply effects like scaling, colorization and rotation to perfect your images. Along with real-time previews and playback,

ProShow provides a variety of output options for your shows. Create VCDs (video CDs) that play back on your TV using a DVD player.

Build self-contained executable shows (.exe files) that playback shows without any additional software - perfect for e-mailing or posting online.

Turn your photos into a screen saver with ProShow's screen saver creation. Write PC autorun CDs that play a show when inserted. Generate MPEG video files from shows, and more.

ProShow provides an intuitive and powerful way to do something real with your photos.

Here are some key features of "ProShow Gold":

Add and Edit Content Easily:
· 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
· New! Make good photos great with editing tools including crop, red-eye removal, rotate, flip, sharpen, drop shadow, colorize, etc.
· One-click color correction automatically optimizes your photos
· Set custom timing for each slide or modify many slides at once.

Special Effects that Amaze:
· Bring any photo to life with motion effects
· Pan photos, including panoramic; rotate photos to any angle
· Precise motion controls to use composition lines for perfect alignment
· Scale/zoom photos to any size with increased zooming range
· Set acceleration styles for motion effects
· Choose from 280+ transition effects and specify the random transition effects feature to only the styles you want
· Control timing for each transition
· Randomize motion and transition effects for your slide show in seconds
· Add an unlimited number of captions to enhance your show
· Set captions to any font, size, style and color
· Add fun to your captions - choose from the expanded set of 100+ caption effects, including the iconic Galactic Scroll

Use Music to Set Any Mood:
· Create a soundtrack instantly by adding any MP3, WMA or WAV file to your show - you'll see the waveform in the slide list
· Import music from any audio CD with the built-in audio ripper
· Use the built-in audio trimmer to crop songs and add fades
· Add audio clips, such as sound effects or voice overs, to any slide
· Record voice-over narrations for documentary-style effects
· Control volume for your soundtrack and audio clips independently
· Sync your slide show to your music with one click

Fast and Easy Show Creation:
· Timeline view makes it easier to control the timing in your show
· Automatic show backup and recovery keeps work safe
· Collect show files to any folder, CD or DVD for archiving
· Built-in editing and output tools minimize the need to switch back and forth between 3rd party programs
· Favorites Pane makes important folders easily accessible
· Unlimited Undo and Redo

Share Shows Virtually Anywhere:
· Fully-integrated media authoring for DVDs/VCDs/CDs
· Enhanced Hollywood-style menuing for DVDs and PC playback
· Combine both TV and PC playback on the same disc
· Custom aspect ratio controls support 4:3 and widescreen formats
· Anti-flicker filtering reduces flickering issues common in video output
· Avoid TV clipping with integrated Safe Zone preview
· Supports NTSC and PAL for international playback compatibility

ProShow Gold Output Formats:
· DVD (with PC playback)
· VCD (with PC playback)
· Autorun CD
· Self-contained EXE
· Share shows via email
· Streaming web shows
· Free online show sharing
· Streaming Flash video
· High Definition video (HD)
· Windows Media Video (WMV)
· MPEG 1 and 2
· Screensavers

Requirements:

· 800x600 display
· 1GHz+ processor
· 512MB system memory
· Accellered 3D graphics - 64MB ram
· DirectX 9.0 or better
· DVD+R/RW/-R/RW writer
· 70 MB hard drive space
· Supported Disc Writers 1500+
· Supported Media Types DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, CD-R, CD-RW

Limitations:

· 15 days fully functional trial
· Watermark on the output files
· Nag Screen

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fixed problem with show buffering process
· Fixed issue with stalling when opening Trim Video dialog
· Fixed problems caused by saving over an existing Slide Style