ProShow Producer Changelog

What's new in ProShow Producer 9.0.3782

Oct 4, 2017
  • CREATIVE:
  • NEW! Layer Filters:
  • All new layer filters let you add photo+video effects easily
  • Over 45 built-in layer filters
  • Combine layer filters with other effects like Slide Styles and transitions
  • Use the layer filter browser to quickly pick filters with a real-time preview
  • Easily apply effects like sepia, HDR, film, and more
  • NEW! Follow Filter:
  • Create photos, videos and captions that move together
  • Use the follow filter to have one layer or caption follow another
  • Pick what gets followed – position, zoom, rotation or tilt
  • Specify custom offsets to create collages and grids
  • Keep captions pinned to their photos
  • Create multi-image layouts easier than ever
  • NEW! Motion Filters:
  • Add quick animations to any photo or video
  • Over 150 built-in, professionally designed motion filters
  • Combine fly in, normal, and fly out motion filters for unique effects
  • Fly In motion filters animate how a photo or video come onto the screen
  • Normal motion filters animate the photo or video during the slide
  • Fly Out motion filters animate how a photo or video leaves the screen
  • Customize speed and duration of motion filters
  • Combine motion filters with layer filters, Slide Styles and transition effects
  • IMPROVED Better Modifiers:
  • New Bounce modifier provides an all new waveform function for animations
  • Reverse modifier waveforms using the new ‘Start at End of Slide and Invert’ option
  • Improved zoom modifiers now behave more predictably
  • WORKFLOW:
  • NEW! Color Tool:
  • All-new color palettes let you pick from built-in, curated sets of colors
  • Create your own color palettes with your favorite colors
  • See complimentary colors to help you create the perfect color scheme
  • Variations show you slightly different versions of the current color to help you pick the perfect shade
  • Improved color tool gives you a bigger preview of the current color
  • See the original color and your new color side-by-side for quick comparisons
  • IMPROVED Video Importing:
  • Adding video clips to your shows just got a whole lot faster
  • Up to 3x faster importing for videos
  • Improved video import quality for many formats
  • IMPROVED Vignettes:
  • New vignette presets let you apply pre-defined vignettes with just a click
  • Several built-in vignette presets included
  • Create your own presets using your favorite vignette styles
  • The vignette tool now remembers the last used settings
  • PUBLISHING:
  • NEW! Publishing History:
  • See a list of outputs created for any show
  • Quickly see what you’ve created, and when
  • Easily find where published videos are saved
  • Open published videos, or open their location in Windows Explorer
  • NEW! Publishing Queue:
  • Prepare multiple outputs in advance and queue them up
  • Run the queue when you’re ready, and let ProShow create all the output
  • Perfect for letting ProShow create all your videos while you’re away from the computer
  • Manage the queue anytime – add, remove, and reorder queued outputs
  • NEW! 4K Video Output:
  • Create ultra-high definition videos with new 4K video output presets
  • Easily access from the Video for Web, Devices and Computers window
  • 4K video is 4 times higher resolution than 1080p video
  • Suitable for creation and use on faster, modern computers
  • IMPROVED Video Output:
  • Improved video publishing for many formats
  • Faster video encoding, up to 1.5x faster than previous versions
  • Improved support for PAL MPEG-4 videos
  • New an improved profiles in Video for Web, Devices and Computers
  • NEW! Hardware Video Encoding Support:
  • Get up to 2x faster H.264 video encoding on supported computers
  • Works with dedicated NVidia and Intel video encoding hardware found on many higher-end video cards
  • And More:
  • New preference to always use a default font of your choosing for captions, instead of the last used font
  • Improved Remix tool for the Wizard now remembers and maintains single-image/single caption combinations
  • Improved Wizard preview now lets you save your show from within the wizard, great for trying different versions of a show
  • Caption Motion Filters have replaced Caption Behaviors, and are now found in the new Filters tab
  • Easily opt-out of WebM output when creating HTML5 video, which makes creating HTML5 output almost twice as fast
  • Improved defaults for Synchronize Show to Soundtrack enhances how audio is synchronized in your show
  • Improved network support makes it easier to use files from network shares, or when folders are mapped to network locations
  • Improved support for running in virtual machines with folders shared between Mac + Windows
  • Many stability improvements across the software

New in ProShow Producer 9.0.3769 (Aug 23, 2017)

  • New Features in ProShow 9 Include:
  • Follow Filter:
  • Adding animation effects to your slideshows just got easier. With the all-new Follow Filter you can have multiple images, layers, and captions all move together with a few clicks. Set the motion of a layer or caption and use the Follow Filter to make other layers and captions follow the position, zoom, rotation, or tilt of your chosen layer. The new Filters tab gives you access to a variety of easy customizable animation effects for your slideshows.
  • Layer Filters:
  • ProShow 9 includes 45+ of built-in Layer Filters to apply on your photos and videos, and combine those filters with other slide and transition effects making them more captivating. With the Layer Filters browser you can easily see what each filter does, with real-time previews, to pick the perfect effect.
  • Motion Filters:
  • Apply animation effects to a specific layer with Motion Filters without manual editing. Easily apply one of the dozens of built-in effects like fly-in and fly-out behaviors. Create high energy photo and video animations with just a click.
  • Color Tool + Palettes:
  • The re-designed color tool gives you more creative options over your slideshows. You can now browse built-in color palettes, create your own custom color palettes, and search through compliments or variations palettes to fine-tune your current colors.
  • 4K Output:
  • You can now publish your slideshows in 4K! Output in high quality to match your high quality photos. Improved publishing options gives you the ability to share and highlight your work as best as possible.
  • Publishing Queue + Publishing History:
  • Need to publish to multiple outputs? With the new publishing queue you can set the order of outputs from start to finish and will continue running even while you’re away. You can also access your slideshow history so you will never lose track of your videos and which output you used for them.

New in ProShow Producer 8.0.3645 (Jul 19, 2016)

  • New! Caption Bounding Boxes:
  • You can now drag the box around a caption after enabling horizontal or vertical constraining to control the size of the text area in any slide.
  • Text can automatically wrap to fit inside the box. Wrapping can be easily enabled and disabled.
  • Text can optionally shrink to fit, allowing longer captions to automatically use a smaller font size so that more text is visible.
  • Bounding boxes give greatly improved control over the exact positing of captions, resulting in better slide layouts.
  • Bounding boxes can be used to prevent text from running over photos and videos in complex slide designs.
  • Many of ProShow’s built-in slide styles have been updated to use caption bounding boxes for improved text handling.
  • Bounding boxes enable more sophisticated Slide Styles that used advanced caption motion.
  • Bounding boxes are enabled by clicking the icons for Text Box Size in the Caption Placement section of Slide Options.
  • New! Redesigned and Improved Wizard:
  • The redesigned wizard in ProShow makes it easy to quickly create a show. Just add some photos, videos, titles, and music, and
  • ProShow will automatically choose effects and build your show.
  • The streamlined interface lets you manage your photos, videos, titles and music in one convenient interface.
  • The new wizard window automatically changes size based on your screen, giving you more space to work on larger monitors.
  • In addition to letting ProShow automatically pick effects, you can now select custom effects for any piece of content. Perfect when you have a few photos you want control over, but want ProShow to handle the rest.
  • When you’re ready to see your show, just click the Preview button and your show quickly starts playing. Unlike the wizard in older versions, there’s no need to click through several steps just to preview.
  • Once ProShow has chosen effects, you’ll see the choices it made right in the wizard window. Easily replace effects you don’t like by picking a custom effect, or re-run ProShow’s wizard engine to have ProShow try a different configuration.
  • The new wizard works great with effects that use the new caption bounding boxes, helping to ensure that your title slides and captions look great even when you’re using lots of text.
  • The wizard can be started from the New Show window or the Wizard button on the main toolbar. You an even use the wizard on part of an existing show by selecting the slides and using the Remix button on the main toolbar.
  • New! More Music:
  • We’ve added 35 new music tracks to ProShow’s royalty free music library.
  • The improved music library now shows you which tracks are already used in your show.
  • These new music tracks are available now in both ProShow 8 and ProShow 7!
  • New! Font Browser:
  • Visually browse the fonts available on the system to find just the right one.
  • Easily scroll through a list of all installed fonts.Sample text is displayed for each font, and the sample text used can be easily customized in the preferences.
  • The font browser can also show a preview of the current caption’s text, making it easy to find a font that works well for the specific text being used.
  • A character view optionally shows the standard characters for each font, making it easy to compare how specific characters look.
  • Frequently use the same fonts? The font browser shows you a list of your recently used fonts, making it easy to quickly grab your preferred fonts.
  • Getting more consistent captions in your show by using the font browser’s Used In Show list to quickly apply a font that is already used in your show.
  • Available from the Captions tab in Slide Options.
  • New! Symbol Browser:
  • The new symbol browser makes it easy to see all the characters and symbols available in a font and insert any selected character into a caption.
  • Works great with specialty symbol fonts like Webdings and Wingdings, as well as custom fonts that provide unique symbols and characters.
  • Using the symbol browser lets you quickly discover tons of great symbols you can use in your captions that have been hiding in fonts already on your system.
  • Available from the Captions tab in Slide Options.
  • New! Vertical Caption Alignment:
  • Captions can now be top, bottom, or center aligned.
  • Alignment controls which direction the text expands in when additional lines of text are added.
  • Vertical alignment is especially useful when combined with bounding boxes.
  • Found in the Caption Placement section of Slide Options.
  • New! AVCHD Output:
  • Create high definition video output for your TV using your existing DVD burner and DVD discs.
  • AVCHD is a widely supported video format that plays back on any Blu-ray player.
  • Allows you create Blu-ray quality video even if you don’t have a Blu-ray burner.
  • Get up to 6 times higher resolution for your shows, providing considerably better quality and clarity on the same DVD discs.
  • Requires only a DVD burner, DVD discs, and a Blu-ray player.
  • Available from the Publish menu, the toolbar in the Publish view, or the Publishing Formats pane in the main window.
  • New! Publish to USB:
  • The new USB Flash Drive output option makes it easy to get your show onto a USB memory stick for playback on your smart TV.
  • Most modern TVs include USB ports and support playing back video from a USB thumb drive.
  • ProShow’s new USB Flash Drive feature provides a quick way to create a video in the standard format for playback on smart TVs, and will automatically create your video with all the right settings.
  • USB drives are automatically detected – just pick the USB drive you want to save your show on, and ProShow does the rest.
  • Available from the Publish menu, the toolbar in the Publish view, or the Publishing Formats pane in the main window.
  • New! Improved Blu-ray Output:
  • ProShow’s Blu-ray output has been upgraded to use newer video encoding, resulting in increased clarity and quality.
  • Blu-ray resolution and quality presets have been enhanced to help get the best quality possible.
  • Improved Blu-ray options window now provides estimates of the length of video that will fit on a disc with each preset.
  • Blu-ray output can be accessed from the Publish menu, the toolbar in the Publish view, or the Publishing Formats pane.
  • Support for dual-layer Blu-ray discs have been improved, making it easier to publish extra-long HD shows.
  • New! Automatic Volume Leveling:
  • ProShow’s audio engine can now automatically analyze soundtracks and correct for differences in volume.
  • Automatic volume leveling helps to create a more consistent volume level across the soundtracks in your show.
  • Reduces the need to manually adjust the volume of individual tracks.
  • Allows for the strength of leveling to be adjusted as needed, or even disabled.
  • Automatic volume leveling is enabled by default on all new shows created in ProShow 8.
  • Volume leveling can be controlled from the Soundtrack tab of Show Options.
  • New! Combine Shows:
  • Easily merge any number of different shows into a single new show.
  • Perfect for taking multiple shows and combining them into one video for uploading to Vimeo or YouTube.
  • Control the order of shows, the aspect ratio, and optionally include a blank slide between shows.
  • Available from the Tools menu.
  • New! Add / Remove Time:
  • Easily add or remove a chosen amount of time from the selected slides.
  • Perfect when you need to change the overall show length by a specific amount, like when you need an extra 10 seconds of visuals to fill out your soundtrack.
  • Works with any number of selected slides, so you can modify just a few slides, or adjust all the slides in your show.
  • Choose to add time to the selected slides, or remove time.
  • Adjust by any amount of time.
  • Optionally modify either slide times or transition times.
  • Add the chosen amount of time to every slide, or let ProShow automatically distribute the time across the selected slides. For example, you can add 5 seconds to each slide, or add 5 seconds across the current slides and let ProShow do the math.
  • Accessed from the Slide menu in the main window.
  • New! Improved Presets in Video for Web, Devices and Computers:
  • ProShow’s general-purpose video file output, Video for Web, Devices and Computers has an all new set of video presets and profiles.
  • Improved defaults for today’s standard video format, MPEG-4 H.264, are listed right at the top, making it easy to output shows in the current standard for video files.
  • All presets and profiles have been freshly optimized to provide a good balance between quality and file size. Performance of encoding to x264 video formats has been improved.
  • New categories make it easy to find specific profiles for common uses, like mobile devices, online services, and disc-based formats.
  • The new Intermediate / Lossless presets let you create video files optimized for importing into other video editors with a minimal loss of quality.
  • New! Additional Preferences to Customize ProShow:
  • New preference in Miscellaneous / Startup lets you automatically load the last used show when ProShow starts.
  • New preference in Show Defaults / Default Slide Settings lets you create new slides that start with the show’s default settings, instead of the traditional behavior of inheriting the settings of the neighboring slide.
  • New preference in Appearance / Main Window lets you disable the ability to reposition panes in the main interface, preventing accidental issues with panes getting repositioned or undocked.
  • All preferences are accessed from Preferences under the Edit menu.
  • New! Even More:
  • When working with Slide Styles, you can now filter effects by recommended time. Easily find effects that work best with short durations or effects designed to last a little longer.Once you’ve found the perfect effect, you can now apply the effect’s recommended time to the slide instantly by clicking the Apply Timing button. The slide’s time will be automatically adjusted to match the recommended time for the effect.
  • Always prefer to use the recommended effect times? A new preference sets ProShow to automatically ask you to apply the recommended time when you apply a Slide Style effect.
  • ProShow Producer’s keyframe editor provides a way to see the keyframe timelines for all layers on the current slide at once, and now it can optionally display the waveform for your soundtrack and slide sounds. This makes it easier to position keyframes relative to the audio in your show. The keyframe editor is accessed from the keyframe icon at the bottom of the Slide Options window.
  • The Slide Inspector pane (found in the Design view) now lists the fonts used on the currently selected slide, making it easier to figure out which fonts are used where.
  • New compatibility warnings appear when you access certain older output formats that are no longer widely supported. This helps avoid creating output in a format that may not be easily viewed. Each warning includes a recommendation on the best output format for today’s technology. Of course, you can always continue creating output in these legacy formats if you have a specific need.
  • Tons of Fixes and Enhancements:
  • Improved video formats used for online sharing service to improve compatibility and quality
  • Improved video import to automatically correct rotation for videos taken on most cell phones
  • Improved Collect Show Files feature to detect and warn when the destination path is too long
  • Improved caption fly in/fly out effect behavior so that custom times are maintained when selecting a different effect
  • Improved conversion between solid color / gradient layers to preserve resolution
  • Improved random transition selection to prevent incompatible transitions from being applied
  • Improved Slide Style creation window now displays selected categories in alphabetical order
  • Improved the message shown the monitor resolution is too low for ProShow to function to indicate that display scaling may be the issue
  • Improved the scale of position values for layers and captions in the Customize Menu window to improve usability and consistency
  • Improved visibility of the expand/collapse icons in the Video for Web, Devices and Computers window
  • Improved wording in sharing service upload confirmation windows
  • Fixed application of master volume option on video output
  • Fixed image orientation problems in preview when using Live Image feature
  • Fixed incorrect tooltip for Preview Zoom in Slide Options window
  • Fixed status indicator after installing updated package from Download Effects and Content window
  • Fixed update problem in Slide Options after reordering slides in the Slide List
  • Fixed issue where Edit Theme window could show the wrong icon for some transitions
  • Fixed issue with incorrect highlighting of effect filters in the Edit Theme window
  • Fixed issue where incorrect list of effects could be displayed when Show Enabled is used in the Edit Theme Window
  • Fixed issue where page thumbnails in the Customize Menu window did not always update appropriately
  • Fixed issue where toggling caption visibility in the Customize Menu window would not properly update the Loop All / Play All option settings
  • Fixed issue with incorrect display of menu preview when using 4:3 menus for output
  • Fixed issues with the display of the grid when using a 4:3 menu in the Customize Menu window
  • Fixed issue where multiple files could not be dragged+dropped into the Timeline correctly
  • Fixed issue where the Slide List could incorrectly indicate the open slide after deleting one or more slides
  • Fixed issue where flagging and unflagging slides did not support Undo/Redo
  • Fixed issue where modifiers were incorrectly available for certain soundtrack options in Slide Options
  • Fixed issue where select all/none buttons did not properly enable/disable when importing content from a third party service
  • Fixed issue where shows opened from the Recent menu were not added to the current project
  • Fixed issue where some images could be flipped when imported
  • Fixed issue where the Add button could be missing in the Caption Styles window
  • Fixed issue where toolbar for Lightbox could fail to appear
  • Fixed issue with alignment of text of the Writing Disc window
  • Fixed issue with incorrect tab changing in Slide Options when toggling caption visibility
  • Fixed issue with incorrect warning when deleting a Transition Style that had previously been applied to a slide in the current show
  • Fixed issue with missing entries in the Slide Options captions list
  • Fixed issue with motion easing options for layer zoom not updating correctly when switching zoom between auto and manual
  • Fixed issue with rendering custom video files when audio is disabled
  • Fixed issue with the Variable Amount reference in the Modifiers dialog for text layers
  • Fixed issue with watermark colorize option not remembering the last used color
  • Fixed issues with extension used in Flash FLV output
  • Fixed issues with removing a watermark that is based on missing content
  • Fixed issues with size of output windows on low resolution monitors in Windows 10
  • Fixed issues with zero-byte videos being created during Blu-ray output
  • Fixed modifier problems associated with duplicated layers
  • Fixed problem where dragging+dropping a file into a layer that contains missing content wouldn’t properly mark the content as found.
  • Fixed problem where Find Missing Files could report that files are still missing after they have been found
  • Fixed problems with audio tracks that use ending trim and negative offset values
  • Fixed problems with setting chroma key transparency for video layers
  • Fixed stability issue when creating Blu-ray output
  • Fixed stability issue when the Music Library does not properly download thumbnails
  • Fixed stability issue when undoing a change while the Soundtrack tab of Show Options is open
  • Fixed stability issue with applying certain transitions after a blank slide
  • Fixed stability issue with setting a custom thumbnail when creating a transition
  • Fixed stability issue with toggling effect filters in the Edit Theme window

New in ProShow Producer 7.0.3514 (May 21, 2015)

  • ROYALTY-FREE MUSIC LIBRARY:
  • New built-in music library gives you access to 240+ soundtracks and 25 sound effects in a variety of categories:
  • Commercial
  • Everyday
  • Family & Kids
  • Fashion & Glamour
  • High Energy / Sports
  • Love & Romance
  • Party / Celebration
  • Seasonal / Specialty
  • Seniors & Graduation
  • Sound FX
  • Tribute & Memorial
  • Vacation & Travel
  • Weddings
  • All tracks are provided royalty-free. Use them in your slideshows with no extra cost.
  • Includes a variety of vocal and instrumental tracks across a broad range of styles.
  • Browse tracks by genre, length, tempo, occasion and more.
  • Mark tracks as favorites for easy access.
  • Easily preview tracks before you add them to your show.
  • Tracks are licensed for use in personal shows as well as commercial shows (you may use these tracks in shows you produce and sell to clients).
  • Automatically remembers the last used category you were browsing.
  • Easily trim tracks from the library using ProShow’s built-in audio editing tools.
  • DOWNLOAD EFFECTS + CONTENT:
  • Never miss new free effects
  • New Download Effects + Content window lets you easily install additional free effects and content that was previously only available on the ProShow blog, including
  • Over 300 additional slide styles
  • Over 25 additional transition effects
  • Always’ wizard theme
  • Over 150 additional background images
  • Over 80 additional photo borders
  • Over 25 additional layer masks
  • Over 90 photo overlays
  • Over 200 additional menu themes
  • Plus easy access to future free content
  • Content is automatically downloaded and installed in just a few clicks
  • Note: If you’ve already downloaded all the free effects and content from our blog, you may already have this additional content. However, this new feature will make it even easier to stay up to date with all the latest free stuff
  • MODERN UI:
  • The updated and refreshed UI has a modern look, while keeping most things in familiar places
  • Improved control of user interface colors (found in Preferences) lets you customize the colors used for the software. New built-in color configurations let you easily pick from a variety of interface colors, from functional choices like High Contrast Text to funky options like Analog and Vintage
  • New preference options let you set the window size for Slide Options, Show Options and Custom Menu windows from Preferences
  • New options let you customize the name of the three workspaces (Build, Design and Publish) to fit your workflow. Available in the Preferences window
  • IMPROVED VIDEO SUPPORT:
  • Extended support for importing longer video files
  • Import 4K video files, which are automatically scaled to 1080p on import
  • Improved support for high framerate video files. 60fps videos maintain their framerate on import
  • Fine-tune the audio offset of imported videos using the new audio offset option to allow for correcting videos that import with audio out-of-sync
  • IMPROVED WIZARD THEMES:
  • See thumbnails of wizard themes to get a sense of each theme’s style when you’re picking a theme
  • Customize thumbnails when you create or edit a theme
  • New descriptions for wizard themes give you an overview of each theme
  • Add descriptions to your custom themes, or edit descriptions on existing themes
  • Fine-tune themes more easily with the new option to show only enabled effects when editing a theme. Perfect for quickly locating an effect you want to remove from a theme
  • HTML5 VIDEO OUTPUT:
  • Create videos for your website or blog using the latest online video technology.
  • HTML5 videos play in modern web browsers and mobile devices without any plugins.
  • Automatically create the right video files in your chosen resolution, up to 1080p.
  • Automatically create the necessary HTML video code to drop into your web page.
  • Customize player size, enable or disable playback controls, control looping and muting.
  • Supports a custom fallback message when the viewer’s web browser doesn’t support HTML5.
  • Optionally create a sample web page that demonstrates HTML5 video playback.
  • CUSTOM MENU NAVIGATION CONTROL:
  • New navigation control for customizing menus lets you control the behavior of up, down, left and right buttons on your DVD and Blu-ray remote.
  • Control which menu item gets selected when you navigate with the remote.
  • Specify the default item to be selected on each DVD or Blu-ray menu page.
  • Automatically warns you when you have items on a menu that are not accessible using the navigation buttons.
  • Automatically prevents cyclical references (objects that navigate to themselves).
  • IMPROVED OUTPUT:
  • All new support for WebM video output
  • New constant rate factoring option for video output (used by default on many formats in Video for Web, Devices and Computers) enables better-looking videos with smaller file sizes
  • Enhanced MPEG2 output allows for customizing field order
  • Improved EXE output lets you customize the maximum resolution used for playback on older, less powerful computers
  • Improved and expanded profiles in Video for Web, Devices and Computers gives you more options for creating great quality videos
  • New profiles for Archiving or Editing in Video for Web, Devices and Computers make it easy to create video files for editing in external applications
  • Improved profiles for uploading to social media services (Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, etc.) provide better quality
  • Improved control over H.264 video output provides options for profiles (Baseline, Main, High)
  • IMPROVED DISC BURNING:
  • Improved burn speed control increases reliability of the disc burning process for DVD, Blu-ray and PC Autorun CDs
  • Intelligent burn speed selection chooses an appropriate burn speed for each disc to reduce bad disc burns and improve reliability
  • New sleep mode prevention avoids problems caused by your computer going to standby while burning a disc
  • IMPROVED SLIDE EDITING AND CONTROL:
  • New options for browsing slide styles now let you filter by the number of captions used by an effect.
  • Intelligent caption list sizing automatically reduces the size of the Captions list when few (or zero) captions are used in a slide to maximize the space available for listing layers.
  • Convert layers between image, solid color, and gradient fills from the Layers list menu, useful when creating placeholder or temporary layers.
  • Improved color picker now lets you specify standard colors by name – just type any standard color name in the Hex field when picking a color. Standard names include hundreds of colors used in the HTML color specification.
  • Improved caption font sizing now lets you reduce caption sizes down to zero – perfect for zooming text all the way out.
  • Improved OTF font support provides better performance when using complex fonts.
  • Quickly access the sound for any slide with the new Manage Slide Sound option in the right-mouse-button-menu for slides in the Slide List.
  • MORE IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Smarter default show names avoid naming conflicts by creating a more unique name for each show you create in the New Show dialog
  • Improved importing from social media services (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) now better supports accounts with large numbers of albums or content
  • Improved show templates now provide descriptions in the New Show dialog, making it easier to select the perfect template
  • Set custom thumbnails when creating slide styles, allowing you to override the default ‘middle of slide’ thumbnail
  • Multiple categories are now remembered when creating slide styles, allowing you to easily apply multiple frequently used categories when creating effects
  • Improved master soundtrack volume avoids problems with audio clipping when volume is set above 100%
  • Create screensavers that remove any audio from the show
  • TONS OF FIXES:
  • Fixed various issues with importing certain video files.
  • Fixed stability issues with editing captions that have short durations.
  • Fixed issues with volume changes triggered by silent video layers.
  • Fixed offset inaccuracy on trimmed soundtracks.
  • Fixed issues with certain page curl transitions.
  • Fixed issues with application Saturation settings to backgrounds in some output formats.
  • Fixed issues with use of keyframed soundtrack changes.
  • Fixed issues with long menu captions.
  • Fixed issues with display of some volume control nodes in the Timeline view.
  • Fixed issue with adjustment layer opacity when layer does not span the entire slide duration.
  • Fixed stability issues when scrubbing preview during a transition.
  • Fixed transparency problems with animated GIFs in video output.
  • Fixed issue with audio from video layers sometimes playing past the end of a slide.
  • Fixed stability issue with fullscreen playback in EXE output.
  • Fixed issues with slide navigation on paused EXE shows.
  • Fixed issues with sharpened video layers in some output formats.
  • Fixed issue where background type information in Slide Options would not properly update.
  • Fixed issues with some caption texture fill modes.
  • Fixed playback sync issues when running ProShow inside a virtual machine.
  • Fixed issues with automatic navigation layout in menus.
  • Fixed issue where sort order of template list could be incorrect.
  • Fixed stability issues when changing slide time from with in Slide Options caption settings.
  • Fixed issue with incorrect thumbnails for DNG images.
  • Fixed issue where missing fonts were not properly detected for text layers.
  • Fixed issue where adding multiple audio tracks at once could fail.
  • Fixed incorrect display of source image name in the Caption Macros dialog.
  • Fixed interlaced Blu-ray playback on some Blu-ray players.
  • Fixed issues with logging into some 3rd party services.
  • Fixed stability issues when returning from Windows lock screen.
  • Fixed issue with missing highlights on Blu-ray menus.
  • Fixed missing audio on some AVI video output formats.
  • Fixed issue with some files not being included when including original files on a DVD.

New in ProShow Producer 6.0.3395 (Dec 21, 2013)

  • Advanced Text with Text Layers:
  • All new Text Layers let you add captions to your slides in a whole new way
  • Text Layers appear in the Layer List with your photos and videos, but use text
  • Text Layers allow all kinds of advanced effects with text that were never before possible with ProShow
  • Work with Text Layers easily:
  • Easily convert between traditional captions and text layers
  • When converting a caption, your caption settings are automatically maintained
  • Text Layers provide a familiar interface for configuring the font, placement, and effects
  • New Text Settings and Text Effects tabs give you easy access to text settings for a Text Layer
  • Copy keyframe settings between layers and text layers
  • Create effects that were previously impossible
  • Text Layers can be used as masks to mask layers based on the shape of letters or words
  • Use Text Layers as adjustment layers to apply adjustment effects in the shape of text
  • Mix Text Layers with normal layers to place text behind photos and videos
  • Blur text
  • Tilt text in 3D
  • Apply adjustment effects to Text Layers
  • Use both caption keyframes and layer keyframes on Text Layers
  • Text Layers get the benefits of caption settings, too:
  • Control font face, style and size
  • Use colors, gradients and textures to fill your text
  • Use caption behaviors on Text Layers like fly-ins and fly-outs
  • Use modifiers on Text Layer keyframe settings
  • New! ProShow Remote App for Mobile Devices:
  • Work with your shows from your iPhone or iPad
  • Use the free app to connect your device to ProShow on your desktop
  • Available as a free download from the Apple App Store
  • Works with iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches running iOS 6 or later
  • See key information about the show currently loaded in ProShow:
  • Show thumbnail
  • Show title
  • Number of slides
  • Total show length
  • Remote control of show playback
  • Your show plays back on your desktop, controlled by the app
  • Play and pause your show
  • Jump to next or previous slides
  • Skip to the beginning or end of a show
  • See a list of your show’s slides in the app
  • Jump to any slide by tapping it
  • Toggle fullscreen playback on/off
  • See overall show progress and the progress through the current slide
  • On the iPad, see a large still preview of each slide along with any slide notes
  • Control playback with buttons or gestures by toggling the control mode
  • Import photos + videos from your device into your show
  • Easily get content from your device without wires or fuss
  • Once connected, visually browse content on your device from within ProShow
  • Import content right into your show, or just download to your computer
  • Export finished shows to your device
  • Publish videos to your device without worrying about configurations and formats
  • No more messing with iTunes or converting/importing videos into your library
  • Use ProShow on your desktop to create a video and send it to your device in one easy step
  • ProShow automatically determines the formats supported by your device
  • Videos are saved on your device, and can be played back anywhere – even without an Internet connection or access to ProShow
  • Supports HD video up to 1080p, depending on the device
  • Use the app to save published videos to your device’s Camera Roll
  • Saved videos can be streamed to your TV using Apple’s Air Play technology
  • Uses your wireless network to connect
  • The app automatically finds ProShow on your local network
  • Customize the name used to identify your ProShow desktop installation
  • Set a custom access key (password) to prevent unauthorized access
  • Use a custom connection to connect your app when running on remote networks (and your desktop is accessible from the Internet)
  • You control when ProShow is discoverable on your network – enable on demand, or automatically enable at startup
  • New ProShow Remote App options in Preferences let you configure your remote app in one convenient place
  • New! Import Photos + Videos from Social Networks:
  • Easily import photos and videos from online services
  • Visually browse your online albums with thumbnails of photos and videos
  • Import content directly into your show
  • Optionally download content to your computer without importing into your show
  • Import content right into the wizard when building show automatically
  • ProShow can even grab the captions on your photos from social networks
  • Supports several popular services:
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Flickr
  • Smugmug
  • Zenfolio
  • Picasa
  • New! Favorites for Effects:
  • Keep your favorite effects handy for quick access
  • Mark any slide style or transition as a favorite by clicking the star button
  • Add favorites for slide styles from the Manage Effects window or right from the Slide Style screen in Slide Options
  • Add transition favorites from the Manage Effects window
  • Favorites are indicated in Slide Options and Manage Effects with a star icon
  • The new Favorites category lets you filter your effects to show just your favorites
  • New! Expanded Adjustments:
  • Add blur to background images for slides and shows
  • Add blur to show watermarks
  • Control saturation for layers, backgrounds and watermarks
  • New motion randomization options include the ability to randomize 3D tilt for quickly adding motion to a show
  • Improved! Show Templates:
  • The new Manage Show Templates window in the Tools menu lets you add, remove and export Show Templates from one place
  • ProShow Producer includes a dozen new built-in Show Templates for creating quick shows.
  • Portfolio Black Background with Captions
  • Portfolio Black Background with File Name
  • Portfolio Black Background
  • Portfolio Light Background with Captions
  • Portfolio Light Background with File Name
  • Portfolio Light Background
  • Simplicity Zoom Dark with Captions
  • Simplicity Zoom Dark with File Name
  • Simplicity Zoom Dark
  • Simplicity Zoom Light with Captions
  • Simplicity Zoom Light with File Name
  • Simplicity Zoom Light
  • Improved! Keyframe Enhancements:
  • Easily freeze motion between keyframes by right-clicking a keyframe and choosing Pause Motion. ProShow automatically creates pause in the motion by adding a new keyframe
  • Convert all settings on a keyframe to manual in one step using the new Convert to Static Keyframe option
  • Toggling a keyframe from auto to manual mode now preserves the automatic value, making it easier to customize keyframes between effects
  • Choose how time is displayed in keyframe dialogs with the new option to show times based on overall show time, or the traditional slide time
  • New timing controls in the Keyframe Editor
  • Set slide times and transition times right from the Keyframe Editor
  • See the total duration of a slide, combining slide and transition times
  • Keyframe Editor now shows your custom layer names to make it easier to find specific layers
  • Use your mouse wheel to scroll the Keyframe Editor, or hold the Control key with your mouse wheel to zoom the keyframe list
  • New keyframe copy options let you copy settings from one motion attribute to all other keyframes on the current layer
  • New! Enhanced Audio Control:
  • Create custom audio control points
  • Add custom volume points to your soundtrack in the Timeline by clicking the + button
  • Remove custom volume points using the – button
  • Drag custom volume points to adjust volume levels
  • Create custom fades by adding multiple points
  • Easily increase or decrease volume at any point in your show
  • Improved audio display in the Timeline graphically shows how your soundtrack will fade in and out
  • Resize the Timeline view in the main window to make the audio waveform larger
  • Improved Timeline zoom interface lets you zoom the timeline with sliders
  • Hold your mouse over any audio control point to see a detail of the volume information
  • Control audio volume with keyframes on layers and captions
  • Easily adjust the volume during a specific slide, effect, or layer (like a video) by setting the Soundtrack option for a keyframe under a layer or caption’s Effects tab
  • Volume adjustments in keyframes move with a layer, so if your slide times change, the soundtrack adjustments stick with your slide
  • Automatically fade audio at the end of the show
  • New show soundtrack option lets you automatically fade out the soundtrack at the end of your show
  • Easily prevent abrupt cuts in audio at the end of your show
  • Automatically match fade with the last slide or last transition effect
  • Specify a custom fade time for absolute control of the fade out
  • New option to prevent default soundtrack fades during video clips
  • Improved volume control for videos can now amplify volume to 200% to help deal with low-volume video clips
  • Audio Preview window now includes the total track length
  • New! Improved Captions:
  • Use more fonts with ProShow’s new support for OTF fonts
  • New Case option lets you automatically convert captions to upper or lower case (without modifying your original text). Perfect for creating slide styles and effects
  • New! Improved Wizard for Better Automatic Shows:
  • ProShow’s wizard now includes an option to customize the crossfade duration
  • ProShow’s wizard now supports specifying captions on photos, letting you add text to your photos before the wizard chooses effects
  • Randomizing content in the wizard can now randomize just the selected content
  • Add content from social networking services
  • Create a wizard theme from an existing show
  • Just click the Create button for themes in the Manage Effects window while your show is open
  • Easily take a favorite show containing effects and create a wizard theme based on the show
  • Automatically includes all the effects used in the show, including slide styles and transitions
  • Use your new custom theme to easily create similar shows with different content
  • New and updated wizard themes:
  • Clean & Simple Dark
  • Clean & Simple Light
  • Clean and Simple Light
  • Collage Dissolve Dark
  • Collage Dissolve Light
  • Contact Sheet Dark
  • Contact Sheet Light
  • Dimensional Dark
  • Dimensional Light
  • Full Length Dissolve
  • Horizon Line Dark
  • Horizon Line Light
  • Momentum Dark
  • Momentum Light
  • Perspective Push
  • Photo Backdrop Dark
  • Photo Backdrop Light
  • Simplicity Dark Zoom
  • Simplicity Dark
  • Simplicity Light Zoom
  • Simplicity Light
  • Sparkle
  • Zero Motion Fill Frame
  • Zero Motion Fit Frame
  • Zero Motion Fit Margin
  • New! General Improvements:
  • Add multiple layers at once when using the Add Image or Video option in Slide Options
  • Improved video rendering can now be substantially faster for some combinations of systems and video types
  • Open any folder in the Folder List in Windows Explorer with the new Open in Explorer right mouse button menu
  • Open the folder containing a photo/video by right clicking the file in the File List and choosing Open in Explorer from the File menu
  • New playback controls include the ability to jump to next/previous slide
  • You can now flag a slide during playback to easily mark the current slide for further review
  • Improved recent shows list now automatically removes shows that are no longer accessible
  • Improved Copy Settings dialog is now slightly larger, showing more settings at once
  • New Slide Options dialog size added, optimized for 1440×900 displays
  • Recommended slide style durations are now shown in the Slide Inspector
  • New! Improved Device Support and Uploading:
  • ProShow Producer now includes the ProShow Devices Plug-In
  • Devices Plug-In is now included at no extra cost (previously $19.95 extra)
  • No registration or installation is necessary – it is automatically enabled in ProShow Producer 6
  • Allows you to create videos for a wide range of devices using specially designed presets
  • Expanded device support includes new profiles for the latest iPhones and iPads
  • Improved YouTube uploading
  • New privacy option for setting YouTube’s privacy option when you upload
  • Improved category support for YouTube uploads
  • New! Additional Menu Themes:
  • Over a dozen new menu themes
  • New themes feature versatile designs that can be used for many types of shows
  • New menu backgrounds are accessible from the Built-In Content folder under Media Sources and can be used in your shows
  • New! 150+ New Effects:
  • A Photo Border Landscape Caption 1
  • A Photo Border Landscape Caption 2
  • A Photo Border Portrait Caption 1
  • A Photo Border Portrait Caption 2
  • A Photo Border Square Caption 1
  • A Photo Border Square Caption 2
  • Backdrop Dark Caption 1
  • Backdrop Dark Caption 2
  • Backdrop Dark Framed Caption 1
  • Backdrop Dark Framed Caption 2
  • Backdrop Light Caption 1
  • Backdrop Light Caption 2
  • Backdrop Light Framed Caption 1
  • Backdrop Light Framed Caption 2
  • Birthday Balloons Title 2
  • Candlelight Title 2
  • Celebration Title 2
  • Collage Dark Landscape Multi Still
  • Collage Dark Landscape Multi Zoom
  • Collage Dark Landscape Single Still
  • Collage Dark Landscape Single Zoom
  • Collage Dark Portrait Multi Still
  • Collage Dark Portrait Multi Zoom
  • Collage Dark Portrait Single Still
  • Collage Dark Portrait Single Zoom
  • Collage Dark Square Multi Still
  • Collage Dark Square Multi Zoom
  • Collage Dark Square Single Still
  • Collage Dark Square Single Zoom
  • Collage Light Landscape Multi Still
  • Collage Light Landscape Multi Zoom
  • Collage Light Landscape Single Still
  • Collage Light Landscape Single Zoom
  • Collage Light Portrait Multi Still
  • Collage Light Portrait Multi Zoom
  • Collage Light Portrait Single Still
  • Collage Light Portrait Single Zoom
  • Collage Light Square Multi Still
  • Collage Light Square Multi Zoom
  • Collage Light Square Single Still
  • Collage Light Square Single Zoom
  • Depth Pan Blur 1
  • Depth Pan Blur 2
  • Depth Pan Dark 1
  • Depth Pan Dark 2
  • Depth Pan Light 1
  • Depth Pan Light 2
  • Fill Frame Title Center Dark 1
  • Fill Frame Title Center Dark 2
  • Fill Frame Title Footer Dark 1
  • Fill Frame Title Footer Dark 2
  • Fill Frame Title Footer Light 1
  • Fill Frame Title Footer Light 2
  • Full Length Landscape Caption 1
  • Full Length Landscape Caption 2
  • Full Length Landscape Title 1
  • Full Length Landscape Title 2
  • Full Length Light Landscape
  • Full Length Light Portrait 1 Left
  • Full Length Light Portrait 1 Right
  • Full Length Light Portrait 2
  • Full Length Light Square
  • Full Length Portrait Caption 1
  • Full Length Portrait Caption 2
  • Full Length Portrait Title 1
  • Full Length Portrait Title 2
  • Full Length Square Caption 1
  • Full Length Square Caption 2
  • Full Length Square Title 1
  • Full Length Square Title 2
  • Full Length Square
  • Horizon Line Blur Dark 1
  • Horizon Line Blur Dark 2
  • Horizon Line Blur Light 1
  • Horizon Line Blur Light 2
  • Love and Hearts Title 2
  • Music Video Captions Dark 2
  • Music Video Captions Dark
  • Music Video Captions Light 2
  • Music Video Captions Light
  • Night Out Title 2
  • Portrait Classic Title 2
  • Portrait Edgy Title 2
  • Reflection Dark Caption 1
  • Reflection Dark Caption 2
  • Reflection Light Caption 1
  • Reflection Light Caption 2
  • Scrolling Credits Simple
  • Simple Title Dark 01
  • Simple Title Dark 04
  • Simple Title Dark 07 Spotlighted
  • Simple Title Dark 07
  • Simple Title Dark 08 Spotlighted
  • Simple Title Dark 08
  • Simple Title Dark 09 Spotlighted
  • Simple Title Dark 09
  • Simple Title Dark 12
  • Simple Title Dark 13
  • Simple Title Dark 14
  • Simple Title Dark 16
  • Simple Title Dark 18
  • Simple Title Dark 20
  • Simple Title Light 01
  • Simple Title Light 04
  • Simple Title Light 07
  • Simple Title Light 08
  • Simple Title Light 09
  • Simple Title Light 12
  • Simple Title Light 13
  • Simple Title Light 14
  • Simple Title Light 16
  • Simple Title Light 18
  • Simple Title Light 20
  • Simplicity Dark Caption
  • Simplicity Dark Single
  • Simplicity Dark Zoom Caption
  • Simplicity Dark Zoom Single
  • Simplicity Light Caption
  • Simplicity Light Single
  • Simplicity Light Zoom Caption
  • Simplicity Light Zoom Single
  • Simplicity Title
  • Soft Edge Zoom 1
  • Soft Edge Zoom 2
  • Storyteller Title 2
  • Text Layer Title 1 Dark Simple
  • Text Layer Title 1 Image
  • Text Layer Title 1 Light Simple
  • Text Layer Title 2 Dark Simple
  • Text Layer Title 2 Image
  • Text Layer Title 2 Light Simple
  • Text Layer Title Scatter Dark
  • Text Layer Title Scatter Light
  • Text Layer Title Tilt 1 Simple
  • Text Layer Title Tilt 1
  • Text Layer Title Tilt 2 Simple
  • Text Layer Title Tilt 2
  • Text Layer Year Title 1 Dark
  • Text Layer Year Title 1 Light
  • Text Layer Year Title 2 Dark
  • Text Layer Year Title 2 Light
  • Vignette Blend Dark 1
  • Vignette Blend Dark 2
  • Vignette Blend Light 1
  • Vignette Blend Light 2
  • Wedding Classic Title 2
  • Wedding Trendy Title 2
  • Zero Motion Fill Frame
  • Zero Motion Fit Frame Dark
  • Zero Motion Fit Frame Light
  • Zero Motion Fit Margin Dark
  • Zero Motion Fit Margin Light
  • Tons of Fixes and Improvements:
  • Fixed problem where certain video layers could become out of sync
  • Fixed problems with caption text layout in shows created by the wizard
  • Fixed issue where Open button could fail to function after loading an auto-saved show
  • Fixed opacity of caption outline and drop shadow when set by modifier
  • Fixed problems with audio on secondary DVD menu pages
  • Fixed playback failure caused by DVD menu audio on some players
  • Fixed looping behavior for audio on DVD menus
  • Fixed problems returning focus to full screen preview playback
  • Fixed application of adjustments to grayscale video mask layers
  • Fixed intermittent crash caused by adjustment layers in transitions
  • Fixed crash caused by preview playback in Slide Options after transition selection
  • Fixed playback crash caused by transitioning between very complex slides
  • Fixed incorrect fade behavior in soundtrack following a slide sound
  • Fixed soundtrack volume when playback initiated after start of show
  • Fixed chroma-key effect on layers with adjustments applied
  • Fixed problems with blank captions on Blu-ray menus
  • Fixed crash caused by playing very complex shows
  • Fixed thin black vertical lines that could appear on layers during playback
  • Fixed intermittent layer oscillation that could occur in rendered output
  • Fixed drop shadow on rotating layers with transparency in DVD output
  • Fixed issue where unseen captions could be selected in Slide Options preview area
  • Fixed crash when using video for intro show
  • Fixed lines that could appear on zooming masked layers during playback
  • Fixed labels for Easing motion defaults in Preferences
  • Fixed unintended transparency in white areas of GIF images
  • Fixed problem with video link delivered after YouTube upload
  • Fixed problem with dropping files into show from Windows Explorer
  • Fixed issue that could reset caption fly in / fly out durations to default values
  • Fixed issue causing video layers to be cropped in video output
  • Fixed crash caused by attempting to copy files into a zip archive
  • Fixed erroneous ‘read only’ error when adding multiple PSH files to a project
  • Fixed error message seen when copying files to folder that no longer exists
  • Fixed issue where PPR extension was not forced on saved projects
  • Fixed issue where video trim points were lost when remixing a show
  • Fixed crash caused by applying certain transitions while Slide Options is open
  • Fixed issue where full screen preview playback could fail to appear
  • Fixed status bar updates for Blu-ray output
  • Fixed audio fade issue that could occur with long automatic fade durations
  • Fixed burn failures caused by system going to sleep during burn
  • Fixed unnecessary update notification in output dialogs
  • Fixed lack of audio for trimmed video layers in Presenter based output
  • Fixed how changes from Settings tabs are applied when multiple keyframes exist
  • Fixed placement of duplicated audio tracks
  • Fixed loss of trim, volume, and fade settings in duplicated audio tracks
  • Fixed issue where motion easing changes could be applied to the wrong caption
  • Fixed problems caused by copying custom transitions to other slides
  • Fixed crash in gradient dialog seen when dragging color stops
  • Fixed issue that could cause content imported from a remote location to fail
  • Fixed crash caused by closing ProShow while Lightbox is detached
  • Fixed crash that could occur when deleting the slide currently open in Slide Options
  • Fixed issue where slide name was not properly reset when applying slide styles
  • Changes in the latest ProShow release (since ProShow Producer 6.0.3392):
  • Added support for importing photos and videos from Flickr
  • Fixed terminal video output stall affecting some formats
  • Fixed problems with missing files in default templates
  • Fixed reset button in Adjustments section of Background tab within Slide Options

New in ProShow Producer 5.0.3310 (Mar 8, 2013)

  • Fixed display problems in GPU accelerated shows caused by certain NVIDIA drivers
  • Fixed crash conditions caused by playing certain shows through Presenter
  • Fixed crash condition caused by blank layers in the Copy Settings dialog
  • Fixed problem where installation could fail on some systems
  • Fixed crash condition caused by certain PNG images
  • Fixed import failure affecting some MP3 files
  • Fixed issue where some MP3 tracks could end prematurely

New in ProShow Producer 5.0.3276 (Aug 1, 2012)

  • Improved support for images with color profiles
  • Improved playback performance under GPU acceleration
  • Fixed playback sync issue associated with certain monitor refresh rates
  • Fixed playback issues in older output streams caused by certain image color profiles
  • New GPU Accelerated Rendering
  • ProShow 5 uses your graphics card (GPU) to speed up show playback
  • Allows for higher resolution shows, including full-resolution HD playback
  • Reduces distortion in photos due to rendering resolution and scaling
  • Reduces jitters and jerky playback by balancing workload between CPU and GPU.
  • Automatically falls back to non-GPU rendering on older systems.
  • New 3D Tilt
  • Add 3D perspective to layers
  • Control horizontal and vertical tilt independently
  • Use keyframes to create complex effects using tilt
  • Apply tilt by dragging the icons centered on the edges of each layer
  • Get precise tilt control using the scrollbars and edit fields
  • Control easing (how tilting speeds up or slows down)
  • Copy tilt options between keyframes, layers and slides
  • Add modifiers to tilt values
  • All New User Interface
  • New Build, Design and Publish workspaces optimize the main window for each part of the show creation process.
  • Enhanced color configurations give more control over colors used in the user interface.
  • Set colors for text editors
  • Darker color scheme makes photos stand out more, and increases contrast of white text.
  • New Tools menu puts general tools like Collect Show Files and Manage Effects in one place.
  • Improved Project options are now located with other file operations under the File menu.
  • Access recently used projects from the ‘Open Recent’ menu.
  • Create, save, and open projects from the File menu.
  • Projects are now more seamlessly integrated and don’t prompt when switching to Project mode.
  • New ‘Save Project As’ lets you save a copy of a project.
  • Easily access project options by right-clicking on the Show Info bar.
  • New ‘Add Show’ button in the Show Info pane lets you easily add additional shows to an open project.
  • All new toolbars for Build, Design and Publish workspaces provide quick access to common tools.
  • New buttons for Combine Slides, Menu, Blank/Title slides, and more.
  • New Reset Slide button lets you wipe a slide with one click.
  • Improved Folders list uses modern style icons and arrows.
  • Improved File List
  • File list can now be repositioned
  • Can be hidden and shown
  • Highlight of selected item is now more obvious.
  • Enhanced ‘Used in Show’ indicator now shows how many times a photo is used in the show.
  • Added ability to jump to the first slide that uses the selected file.
  • Remodeled Slide List provides a cleaner list of slides and more detail
  • Updated design removes some of the visual clutter from older version.
  • Improved thumbnails are now larger
  • A tab interface lets you switch between Slide List and Timeline modes.
  • New ‘Open’ indicator shows which slide is currently open in Slide Options.
  • Slides containing slide styles will show the style name in the Slide.
  • Slide sounds are now displayed in the timeline even when there is no soundtrack
  • Slide sounds now alternate colors to improve visibility and make overlaps more obvious
  • Easily delete files from within ProShow from the right-click menu
  • Easily duplicate soundtracks by right-clicking on them
  • Slide list now maintains positions when switching between shows in a project
  • Added option to copy applied slide style to other slides.
  • Redesigned preview control bar gives more control and detail
  • Completely redesigned control bar for the main preview.
  • Now allows pause as well as the traditional stop.
  • Adds a one-click full screen button.
  • Improved, wider seek bar makes progression through the show more obvious, and provides more granularity when dragging.
  • All new playback stats provide detail about the slide, transition, or file being displayed in the preview.
  • Get the name of the file or slide.
  • Get information about the selection (number of slides/files, total duration/size, etc).
  • Get the name of the slide style or transition effect being played.
  • Status bar (along the bottom of the window) has been removed to allow more room for other areas.
  • Improved tooltips help identify options in the preview control bar.
  • All new Slide Inspector provides detailed information about a slide from the main window.
  • Name and number of slide
  • Name of slide style, transition in, and transition out.
  • Duration information for slide, including slide time, transition times, and total duration
  • When the slide starts and ends, from the start of the show very helpful in timing to music.
  • Number of layers and captions, plus information about how many have effects or motion applied.
  • Slide notes
  • Number of unique replaceable photos/videos
  • Number of non-replaceable photos/videos
  • Number of solid color/gradient layers
  • Number of masks
  • Number of adjustment layers
  • All new Publishing Formats pane provides fast access to all output formats from the Publish workspace
  • Includes every output format ProShow supports
  • See a quick summary each format.
  • Double-click to create.
  • Improved keyboard shortcuts provide faster workflow
  • Improved Show Info bar provides more functionality
  • New tooltips provide information about the show.
  • Expanded right-click options let you easily save or rename shows.
  • Create and manage projects from the right-click menu.
  • New ‘Add Show’ button when working in a project lets you easily add shows to a project.
  • All New Effects Manager
  • New Manage Effects window (Tools > Manage Effects) replaces the Manage Slide Styles and Manage Transitions windows from 4.x.
  • Manage, create, and apply effects from one window.
  • Apply slide styles to any number of selected slides at once.
  • Manage themes without opening the wizard.
  • Import any number of styles, transitions and themes at once.
  • Improved importing lets you resolve conflicts for all, rather than having to click OK for each one.
  • Improved exporting lets you simply specify a folder when exporting multiple items.
  • Export and import themes.
  • Hide / show any number of selected styles or transitions at once.
  • Create styles and transitions directly from the Manage Effects window.
  • Easily show or re-hide hidden items with a couple clicks.
  • Multiple window sizes let you see more effects at once on larger screens.
  • More Magical Wizard
  • New ‘Automatic’ energy level forces your music and content to end at the same time.
  • New Remix feature lets you open selected slides (or an entire show) in the Wizard to remix them.
  • Improved support for square images makes it easier to use photos from services like Instagram.
  • General Enhancements
  • Improved default show title gets right to the point: “ProShow Slideshow”
  • New default save location for new installs in ‘My Documents’ helps new users find their shows.
  • Improved default web browser detection properly selects the default browser for links.
  • For new installations, ProShow will now start full screen on most systems.
  • ProShow will now let you know if you load a show that contains missing fonts.
  • Improved ‘Find Missing Files’ window includes paths to files and gives more space to the filename.
  • New preference lets you disable the warning when opening PSG shows in Producer
  • Improved save confirmation
  • When closing an unsaved show, confirmation now provides some detail about the show.
  • When closing an unsaved project, confirmation now makes it obvious which items are shows, projects and menus.
  • Improved audio syncing tool now remembers selected options
  • ProShow 5 now requires an active Internet connection for registration and activation.
  • Slide Styles are now cached during installation, removing the delay when running when opening Slide Options the first time.
  • Added a preference to preview audio files using the default system player.
  • Improved file properties window now shows the path to the file.
  • New media source manager and support
  • Use the new Media Source Manager to add and remove media source entries.
  • Use media sources as shortcuts to sources of content on your computer.
  • Improved media source system prevents overwritten media sources during ProShow installation that could lead to missing content.
  • New Find Empty Placeholders tool helps identify empty layers.
  • Easily locate empty layers caused by slide styles or show templates.
  • Quickly open slides from the dialog to add missing content.
  • Improved Collect Show Files
  • Collecting show files now ensures that your show is saved before you start.
  • After collection, ProShow lets you open the newly collected show, or return to the original copy.
  • Improved collection system now collects unused content that’s still referenced (such as backgrounds and watermarks that are hidden).
  • Redesigned Show Options
  • New dialog allows for multiple window sizes, automatically selects a larger size on bigger screens.
  • New Show Options navigation panel lets you navigate show options from a list of show elements, instead of tabs.
  • Navigation panel is visible in all Show Options screens.
  • One-click access to settings, watermark, background and tracks from anywhere in Show Options.
  • Visual indicators in the navigation panel show thumbnails of the show, watermark and background.
  • No more tabs.
  • Show Captions have been removed from Show Options, and merged into the Slide Options window.
  • New watermark image preview lets you see the original, unmodified image being used.
  • New background preview shows the original, unmodified background of the show.
  • New soundtrack interface provides better visibility of tracks
  • The add button for soundtracks now supports adding multiple tracks at once.
  • All new waveform view in Show Options lets you visualize the track, including trims, fades and color feedback on how much is used in your show.
  • Easily duplicate soundtracks by right-clicking in the Soundtrack list.
  • New Show Info panel provides a summary of your show.
  • Location of the show’s PSH file.
  • Last modified date.
  • Which version of ProShow was last used with the show.
  • Number of flagged slides.
  • Total duration of the show.
  • Average slide duration.
  • Slide rate – the average number of slides per minute.
  • Number of empty placeholders (empty layers added by slide styles or show templates that need to be filled)
  • Totally Remodeled Slide Options
  • A completely redesigned Slide Options window focuses on easier navigation, fewer screens, and improved workflow.
  • Allows multiple window sizes, automatically selects a good size for your screen, and supports widescreen dialogs.
  • New ‘always available’ toolbar at the bottom of the window.
  • The same buttons and tools are always available, regardless of where you are
  • Next / previous slide, start / stop preview playback, edit slide time, open the keyframe editor, change window size, and more.
  • Improved Copy button provides faster access to copy options from anywhere in Slide Options
  • New Slide Options navigation panel replaces the two-level tab system with a logical display of the structure of your slide.
  • Always visible, with instant access to any slide element from anywhere in Slide Options.
  • Mimics the structure of your slide, with Captions appearing above Layers, above Background, etc).
  • Add/remove layers or captions from any screen in Slide Options.
  • Tabs are now only used for Captions and Layers
  • Switching between a layer and caption will try to keep you similar screens. If you’re on the Layer Effects screen, selecting a caption will put you on Caption Effects.
  • Thumbnails for the slide, applied style, background, and slide sound provide visual feedback about the contents of your slide.
  • See which slide style is applied from any Slide Options screen.
  • Slide name is now displayed in the navigation pane, making it visible from anywhere in Slide Options.
  • Improved Captions List
  • Now mimics the look of the Layers list
  • Clearly indicates when a caption is a global Show Caption
  • Removes confusing Show Caption and Above/Below toggles (now moved into the actual dialog)
  • Addition of caption numbers to the list makes it easier to differentiate between similar captions
  • Easily hide/show all captions using the new Visibility options in the Caption List right-click menu
  • Duplicate the selected caption with the CTRL+D shortcut
  • Captions added by Slide Styles are now clearly identified
  • Quickly edit caption text by right-clicking on a caption and using Edit Text
  • Improved Layers List
  • Refined look is cleaner and easier to read.
  • Updated information in the list focus on filenames instead of file types.
  • Layers added by Slide Styles are now clearly identified
  • Missing files are more clearly identified
  • Improved notes indicator now displays notes in the tooltip, making notes accessible from any screen.
  • Improved drag indicator makes it more obvious that mask depth is controlled by dragging the mask line in the list
  • Easily hide/show all layers using the new Visibility options in the Layers List right-click menu
  • Improved tooltips now include image dimensions.
  • Duplicate the selected layer with the CTRL+D shortcut
  • Duplicating a layer now duplicates in place, without changing layer position
  • New ‘Send to Top’ and ‘Send to Bottom’ right-click options make moving layers a snap.
  • New background navigation item shows a preview of your background in the navigation panel
  • See a preview of your background image, color, or gradient, even if it comes from your show.
  • Easily tell if a slide is using a custom background, or the show default.
  • New sound navigation item shows a waveform preview of your slide sound, including fades and offsets.
  • New Slide Info panel shows a summary of the slide.
  • Flag slides to help with workflow
  • New slide flag lets you mark a slide as ‘flagged’.
  • Use a flag to note a slide that still needs work or requires attention.
  • Flags appear in the Slide List, Slide Inspector, and Slide Options.
  • Easily jump to the next flagged slide.
  • Control flags from the Slide menu, by right clicking on a slide, within Slide Options, or from keyboard shortcuts.
  • Reduced number of screens makes it easier to find what you’re looking for.
  • Video Settings tab has been completely removed. These options are now available from Layer Settings (when a video is selected).
  • Adjustment Effects and Motion Effects have been merged into Effects, allowing you to work on all keyframe attributes from one place.
  • Redesigned Slide Style screen brings a bigger preview and better browsing.
  • Slide Style preview is now the focus (replaces the slide preview on this screen).
  • More room for style description and a list of the applied categories.
  • New category list replaces the category menus from 4.x, allows faster browsing when you’ve got tons of categories.
  • Double-click a style in the list to apply it.
  • Type in the style list to jump to styles beginning with those letters.
  • Improved layer filtering now filters based on ‘real’ layers ignoring layers in your slide that were previously added by a style.
  • Updated Slide Style list now clearly indicates which style is applied by marking it with ‘applied’.
  • See which styles are applied anywhere in your show from the Slide Styles list, which now indicates which styles are ‘used’.
  • New style reset button lets you reset your slide and apply the ‘No Style’ style even if ‘No Style’ isn’t visible.
  • Applying a slide style now leaves any crop values you applied to your photos untouched.
  • Improved slide style preview now takes transition times into account, providing a better representation of the style.
  • New Methods for Resetting Options
  • New ‘group’ resets let you reset an entire box of settings with one click on the reset icon in the box’s title bar.
  • Added hundreds of additional reset options for individual options. Nearly every option in Slide Options can now be reset independently.
  • Moved individual resets to the RMBM. Just right click on any option and choose reset. With so many reset options, there were just too many to put them right in the window.
  • Improved Caption Options
  • Added ability to copy caption alignment via right-click and Copy Settings.
  • New Show Caption checkbox makes it easy and obvious to make a caption visible on all slides.
  • New Slide Transition checkbox makes it easier to have a caption affected by the slide’s transition
  • Improved font combo box hides duplicate font variants that start with ‘@’.
  • Added ability to copy caption easing via right-click and Copy Settings.
  • Added ability to copy caption ‘Slide Transition’ via right-click and Copy Settings.
  • Caption styles now support exporting and importing
  • Added options to copy caption starting position to the previous slide.
  • Captions now default to center alignment.
  • Added ‘Stretch to Caption’ scaling for caption textures.
  • Added ‘Fill Frame’ scaling for caption textures.
  • Improved Layer Options
  • Masking options have been greatly simplified.
  • The Invert option has been combined with the mask type selection
  • Multiple ways of controlling mask depth have been streamlined to just dragging the mask depth line in the Layers List
  • Simplified Adjustment Layer options merge the Invert option with the adjustment type selection
  • New Chroma Key window moves the chroma key transparency options to their own window
  • Improved Background Options
  • New background preview lets you see your selected background even if it isn’t visible in the main preview.
  • New background source options make it more intuitive to switch between default show background and customized backgrounds.
  • New slide sound waveform shows what portion of your sound is being used in the current slide.
  • General Slide Options Improvements
  • Added ability to copy Slide Timing Lock via right-click and Copy Settings.
  • Added ability to copy Slide Name via right-click and Copy Settings.
  • Added ability to copy Layer Name via right-click and Copy Settings.
  • Use the Spacebar to start/stop preview playback in Slide Options
  • Zoom the preview in or out to get a closer look, or to see the canvas outside the frame of your show.
  • Icons next to horizontal and vertical values (such as Pan) help distinguish the difference between the two values.
  • Holding SHIFT while dragging a layer or caption keeps it locked to the horizontal or vertical axis
  • Improved Video Options
  • Video options are now only shown when the selected layer is a video layer
  • Improved ‘Lock Slide Time to Video Length’ now takes video speed into account when setting timing.
  • Trimmed videos now show their original duration and their trimmed duration.
  • Updated video trimmer now displays the trimmed duration.
  • Redesigned Keyframe Previews
  • The ‘Starting’ and ‘Ending’ keyframe system has been replaced by a single ‘Selected’ keyframe system.
  • See your current keyframe front and center in the large preview.
  • See the previous and next keyframes in smaller previews to the left and right.
  • Click on the next or previous previews to instantly jump to those keyframes.
  • Hide/show keyframe icons and motion paths independently.
  • Improved playback indicator for keyframe control is more obvious during playback and shows current time.
  • New keyframe toolbar across the top of layer/caption keyframe screens provides easy access to keyframe features.
  • Add, remove, insert time, and navigate keyframes from the toolbar.
  • New reset options let you reset a keyframe (or all keyframes), removing effects without adjusting timing.
  • Prefer to see two keyframe previews at once? New dual-keyframe mode shows two keyframe previews.
  • Easily switch between single keyframe and dual keyframe previews.
  • New keyframe indicator ribbon connects the preview to the current keyframe, providing a clear indication of which keyframe is being edited.
  • Improved keyframe scrubbing shows the current time when clicking clicking and dragging in the keyframe timeline.
  • Expandable keyframe option areas let you expand a box of keyframe settings to see more information.
  • See values for next and previous keyframes.
  • Access inline reset options.
  • Available for Motion, Adjustments, and Caption keyframes.
  • Redesigned easing options for effects replace the ‘Motion Speed’ settings from 4.x with clickable names next to individual effects.
  • New ‘Copy to Next/Previous’ keyframe options easily copy the selected keyframe’s settings with just a couple clicks.
  • New ‘Copy to Preview Slide’ keyframe options mirror the classic ‘Copy to Next Slide’.
  • Reworked auto/manual toggle is now presented as a check to better indicate that it turns the setting on/off, but still automatically checks if you mess with the setting.
  • Enhanced Keyframe Editor
  • Now shows layer/caption numbers to help distinguish between similar captions and layers.
  • Enable/disable layers and captions directly from the Keyframe Editor
  • New and Improved Publishing Options
  • The ‘Create’ menu has been replaced by ‘Publish’, since creating a show is so much more than just the final output.
  • All new SmugMug support
  • Create and publish videos to SmugMug.com in HD.
  • Supports creating albums
  • Improved support for Apple device output can automatically create a Slideshows playlist and add your show, streamlining the process of opening your show in iTunes.
  • Desaturation is now off by default for video output.
  • Improved Capture Frame makes snapshotting a show easier
  • Now accessible from the main Publish toolbar
  • Capture Frame now remembers the last used settings, making repeated captures effortless
  • Improved workflow for capturing a single frame removes the need to deal with the File/Save dialog.
  • Improved menu loading now warns when loading a menu that uses a missing font.
  • Video for Web and Devices replaces Output to Device
  • This updated interface combines creating video for devices with creating video for a variety of other tasks.
  • Preset-oriented video creation removes the confusion for newer users, or those looking for standards-based output.
  • Easily create and add your own presets.
  • Tons of new presets for common desktop video formats.
  • Improved default filename selection automatically suggests your show name as the video filename.
  • Simplified EXE options
  • The often-confusing options for EXE creation have been simplified and streamlined to make it easier to get the right settings.
  • ProShow automatically handles rendering resolutions, removing the need to specify these options during EXE creation.
  • Improved image and video quality settings are more intuitive and easier to understand.
  • ProShow automatically sets audio quality, removing the need to set audio quality.
  • Fixes and Improvements: General Show Tools
  • Fixed issue where autosave could be older than the current show
  • Fixed problem where show recovery used project mode
  • Fixed problem with file references after using Collect Show Files
  • Fixed location used for animated GIFs in Collect Show Files process
  • Fixed problem with file format in Capture Frame save dialog
  • Fixed file save issue in Capture Frame dialog for Current setting
  • Fixed problem where slide style caching could trigger transition caching
  • Fixed warning message that appears when canceling Collect Show Files dialog
  • Fixed issue where collecting show files could not find a layer if the layer had been replaced since the last save.
  • Fixes and Improvements: New Shows, Loading and Saving Shows
  • Fixed problem with gradient angle for show backgrounds
  • Fixed problem with Slide Style preview area after loading a show
  • Fixed issue where New Show dialog prevented program from closing
  • Fixed problem where New Show dialog could appear above Windows file open dialog
  • Fixed overwrite warning when saving over the first listed show template
  • Fixed aspect ratio update of current show when opening new show dialog
  • Fixed issue with missing symbols in auto-generated PSH filename
  • Fixed problem where missing layers could be stripped out of a show
  • Fixed problem where font size change did not mark show as having been updated
  • Fixes and Improvements: User Interface
  • Fixed problem with selection state in Soundtrack area of Show Options
  • Fixed update problems in certain dialogs causes by show processing
  • Fixed problem with flip checkboxes for Watermark option
  • Fixed drawing problem affecting Rotate and Edit buttons in the Wizard
  • Fixed problem where audio sync dialog would not remember the last used settings
  • Fixed problem where Save Video dialog could appear after closing Device dialog
  • Fixed update problem affecting sliders with associated number boxes
  • Fixed selection issue when clicking from one active text box to another
  • Fixed problems with loading window layouts
  • Fixed problem where some video formats did not appear in file open dialog
  • Fixed problem with keyboard links in File menu
  • Fixed problem where options for main toolbar did not maintain checked state
  • Changed format for Window Layout configuration files. Window layouts created in earlier versions are no longer supported.
  • Fixed various issues with flickering in the UI.
  • Fixed issue where position of preview control bar position indicator could be inaccurate.
  • Fixed issue where Live Image could be enabled for non-replaceable layers.
  • Fixed issue where tooltips would not appear for undocked panes.
  • Fixed problems with Slide List thumbnail after changing slide / transition duration
  • Fixed missing MTS/M2TS file types in Open dialogs.
  • Fixed issue where ESC key did not close the Keyframe Editor dialog
  • Fixes and Improvements: Rendering, Encoding, and Other Internal Stuff
  • Fixed encoding options used for videos in transitions
  • Fixed issue where captions could fail to disappear after their final keyframe
  • Fixed problem with opacity of show captions
  • Fixed drop shadow on layers with vignette applied
  • Fixed problems with Producer only caption effects in Gold compatible styles
  • Fixed preview problems caused by removing slide image backgrounds
  • Fixed problems with colorize effects in static previews
  • Fixed problem with modifiers in slide styles after multiple applications of the style
  • Fixed problem with variable amount based modifier layer reference in slide styles
  • Fixed problem where layer could be out of position during layer transitions
  • Fixed crash in video output caused by certain transitions at zero duration
  • Fixed problems with layer scaling during transitions in some video output formats
  • Fixed problem with playback segments for video thumbnails on menus
  • Fixed problems with desaturate and chroma key transparency in video output
  • Fixed problems with pause position in “Action at End of Slide” feature
  • Fixed problems with modifier effects while scrubbing
  • Fixed issue where easing could be omitted from scrubbing preview
  • Fixed problems with menu background image in Presenter based output
  • Fixed problem where list based menu could include show thumbnails
  • Fixed problems with slide sounds in adjacent slides
  • Fixed problem with fade out volume for some slide sounds
  • Fixed problem in preview playback where slide sounds could fail to end properly
  • Fixed problem where slide sounds could fade out too early
  • Fixed preview / thumbnail update problem after changing masking layer order
  • Fixed problem where masking layer could flash in video output
  • Fixed problem where masking layer depth could appear incorrectly
  • Fixed problem where masking layers could appear as non-masking layers
  • Fixed problems with selection highlight in DVD output
  • Fixed problems with importing 32-bit BMP images
  • Fixed problems where download extras content could fail to appear.
  • Fixed issue where media source locations could get lost.
  • Fixed issue with color saturation in video output.
  • Fixed issue where Report a Problem could fail on some systems.
  • Fixed problems with modifiers in slide styles that reference lower order layers
  • Fixed various issues with caption textures
  • Fixes and Improvements: Slide Options
  • Fixed problem switching keyframe option to manual mode after changing value
  • Fixed update problems affecting duration options in Slide Settings area of Slide Options
  • Fixed problems with character rotate when using copy options
  • Fixed problems with slide time locks when replacing a layer with a video file
  • Fixed problems with font size in Choose Caption Behaviors dialog
  • Fixed problem where first and last keyframes of a gradient could be moved
  • Fixed problems with caption text entry and certain keyboard shortcuts
  • Fixed problem with tooltips when switching layers
  • Fixed keyframe area for disabled captions
  • Fixed some gradient presets that had unintended color values
  • Fixed the Above / Below Transition option for captions in slide styles
  • Fixed slide style highlight when double-clicking on a different slide
  • Fixed problems with copying text to slides with no captions
  • Fixed copy options for caption interactivity highlight color
  • Fixed issue with style details displayed when switching between slides
  • Fixed problem with removing reference for missing background images
  • Fixed problems caused by using periods in slide style names
  • Fixed layer matching that could result from undoing layer deletion
  • Fixed problem where masking layer appears incorrect after toggled off / on
  • Fixed problems with copying Italic option to other captions
  • Fixed after preview update error in Slide Options for solid color / gradient edits
  • Fixed issue where double-clicking a slide to open Slide Options could toggle a checkbox
  • Fixed issue where sliders could have missing right-click menus
  • Fixed issues with default aspect ratio of gradients.
  • Fixed issues with default aspect ratio of solid color layers.
  • Fixed issue where angle of a gradient layer could be loaded incorrectly.
  • Fixed issues with darkening of inactive layers while editing captions.
  • Fixes and Improvements: Slide List
  • Fixed issue where slide transition duration could change incorrectly
  • Fixed problems with slide focus after using Combine Slides
  • Fixed problem where Shift key prevented files from being dropped into a show
  • Fixed problem with slide highlight after deleting a slide from the Slide List
  • Fixed problems with Paste Into and empty shows
  • Fixes and Improvements: Stability
  • Fixed crash caused by slide style / transition caching
  • Fixed crash caused by saving music from a CD directly to a customized menu
  • Fixed crash caused by loading a show from a location with no write permissions
  • Fixed crash caused by entering an extremely large font size
  • Fixed crash when loading menu containing only a background image
  • Fixed crash caused by dragging masking layer outside layers list
  • Fixed rare crash that could occur when caching transitions while loading a show
  • Fixed stability issue caused by adding too many shows in a project
  • Nearly a Hundred New Styles and Transitions
  • New slide styles take advantage of 3D.
  • Backdrop Dark Framed Zoom In 3D
  • Backdrop Dark Framed Zoom Out 3D
  • Backdrop Dark Zoom In 3D
  • Backdrop Dark Zoom Out 3D
  • Backdrop Light Framed Zoom In 3D
  • Backdrop Light Framed Zoom Out 3D
  • Backdrop Light Zoom In 3D
  • Backdrop Light Zoom Out 3D
  • Contact Sheet Landscape Dark
  • Contact Sheet Landscape Dark 4×3
  • Contact Sheet Landscape Light
  • Contact Sheet Landscape Light 4×3
  • Contact Sheet Landscape Reverse Backlit
  • Contact Sheet Landscape Reverse Backlit 4×3
  • Contact Sheet Portrait Dark
  • Contact Sheet Portrait Dark 4×3
  • Contact Sheet Portrait Light
  • Contact Sheet Portrait Light 4×3
  • Contact Sheet Portrait Reverse Backlit
  • Contact Sheet Portrait Reverse Backlit 4×3
  • Flip and Glide 3D Dark 1
  • Flip and Glide 3D Dark 2
  • Flip and Glide 3D Light 1
  • Flip and Glide 3D Light 2
  • Full Length Landscape
  • Full Length Landscape 4×3
  • Full Length Portrait 1 Centered
  • Full Length Portrait 1 Left
  • Full Length Portrait 1 Right
  • Full Length Portrait 2
  • Full Length Portrait 2 4×3
  • Momentum 3D 1 Blur
  • Momentum 3D 1 Dark
  • Momentum 3D 1 Light
  • Momentum 3D 2 Blur
  • Momentum 3D 2 Dark
  • Momentum 3D 2 Light
  • Momentum 3D 3 Blur
  • Momentum 3D 3 Dark
  • Momentum 3D 3 Light
  • Simple Tilt and Zoom 3D Dark 1
  • Simple Tilt and Zoom 3D Dark 2
  • Simple Tilt and Zoom 3D Light 1
  • Simple Tilt and Zoom 3D Light 2
  • Storyteller Title
  • Tilted Revolution 3D Landscape 1
  • Tilted Revolution 3D Landscape 2
  • Tilted Revolution 3D Portrait 1
  • Tilted Revolution 3D Portrait 2
  • Tilted Singles 3D Dark
  • Tilted Singles 3D Dark Backdrop Blur
  • Tilted Singles 3D Dark Framed
  • Tilted Singles 3D Light
  • Tilted Singles 3D Light Backdrop Blur
  • Tilted Singles 3D Light Framed
  • Vertical Center Pan Singles Dark
  • Vertical Center Pan Singles Light
  • Dozens of new transitions
  • Curved Path 3D – Down
  • Curved Path 3D – Left
  • Curved Path 3D – Right
  • Curved Path 3D – Up
  • Flash Cards 3D – Backward
  • Flash Cards 3D – Backward – Cascade
  • Flash Cards 3D – Forward
  • Flash Cards 3D – Forward – Cascade
  • Fly Zone 3D – Bottom Left
  • Fly Zone 3D – Bottom Right
  • Fly Zone 3D – Top Left
  • Fly Zone 3D – Top Left – Reflection
  • Fly Zone 3D – Top Right
  • Fly Zone 3D – Top Right – Reflection
  • Folding Turn 3D – Down
  • Folding Turn 3D – Up
  • Inverted Tracks 3D – Left
  • Inverted Tracks 3D – Left – Blur
  • Inverted Tracks 3D – Left – Light
  • Inverted Tracks 3D – Right
  • Inverted Tracks 3D – Right – Blur
  • Inverted Tracks 3D – Right – Light
  • Perspective Push 3D – Left
  • Perspective Push 3D – Left – Glow
  • Perspective Push 3D – Left – Light
  • Perspective Push 3D – Left – Light – Shadow
  • Perspective Push 3D – Right
  • Perspective Push 3D – Right – Glow
  • Perspective Push 3D – Right – Light
  • Perspective Push 3D – Right – Light – Shadow
  • Spin Dissolve 3D – Center Stop
  • Spin Dissolve 3D – Center Stop – Glow
  • Spin Dissolve 3D – Center Stop – Light
  • Spin Dissolve 3D – Continuous
  • Spin Dissolve 3D – Continuous – Glow
  • Spin Dissolve 3D – Continuous – Light
  • Sparkle
  • Tilt Drift 3D – Down
  • Tilt Drift 3D – Left
  • Tilt Drift 3D – Right
  • Tilt Drift 3D – Up

New in ProShow Producer 4.52.3053 (May 27, 2011)

  • Added new profiles to Device output option
  • Removed direct Vimeo upload option due to change in service (now focuses on creating Vimeo-ready file and saving to disk)
  • Changed label in Copy Settings dialog from Motion Style to Motion Speed
  • Fixed problem with optical drive detection on some systems which could prevent DVD, CD and Blu-ray burning from working properly.
  • Fixed rare installation failure affecting some systems
  • Fixed rare crash caused by Internet connections on some systems
  • Fixed crash affecting Presenter based output formats
  • Fixed crash when opening certain existing shows
  • Fixed crashes in video rendering
  • Fixed problem with MPEG4 based Flash output, now supports Flash 10.x.
  • Fixed problem with caption textures not being properly saved and loaded
  • Fixed problem with M4A audio files
  • Fixed problem where some valid audio files could fail to import
  • Fixed problem where Random Transition Effects could corrupt show
  • Fixed problems with program defaults after loading a project file
  • Fixed problem with modifiers and red eye correction
  • Fixed problem where Facebook output could fail
  • Fixed problem with YouTube tags
  • Fixed problems with IPTC caption macros
  • Fixed missing warning message in modifier dialog
  • Fixed problem with Save Window Layout dialog
  • Fixed typo in modifier dialog
  • Fixed typos in help documentation
  • Fixed missing EULA in help documentation
  • Fixed reference to Legal Notices in help documentation
  • Fixed audio menu shortcut (Alt+A) in help documentation
  • Fixed project file extension (PPR) in help documentation
  • Fixed in build 3053: Flashing issue in output with certain layer configurations

New in ProShow Producer 4.51.3003 (Dec 7, 2010)

  • Improvements to the Wizard:
  • Enhanced logic used in wizard to apply slide styles / transitions
  • Enhanced logic used in wizard to determine transition durations
  • Added confirmation prompt when closing wizard using ESC key
  • Enhanced response time when retrying a show in the wizard
  • Other Changes and Improvements:
  • Fixed problems with outputting to Vimeo
  • Fixed problems with outputting to Twitter
  • Fixed tooltip for Video File option in Create Output dialog
  • Fixed problem where Blu-ray output could include the wrong files
  • Fixed problem with video trim ranges
  • Fixed problems with macroblocking on some interlaced videos
  • Fixed crash problem caused by adjustment layers in transitions
  • Fixed problem where some videos could be seen as audio files
  • Fixed problems with flipped video layers

New in ProShow Producer 4.5.2929 (Sep 25, 2010)

  • 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 20 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! Create Your Own Transition Effects:
  • Create your own transitions from within ProShow Producer
  • Easily build transition effects, just like building slide styles
  • Transitions can be easily traded online and transferred between machines
  • Add custom icons, categories, publisher information and more
  • New! Over 190 New Transition Effects:
  • New effects you can use in any show
  • Page curls, texture blends, gloss effects and more
  • ProShow Producer now includes over 470 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
  • Easily access show templates to create a new show from a template
  • Open any recently used show
  • Browse for an existing show to open
  • New Show interface opens automatically at startup (can be disabled)
  • New! Over 170 New Slide Styles:
  • Apply these new effects to any slide
  • Focused on elegant and essential effects that work well in all shows
  • ProShow Producer now includes 250 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
  • New! Improved Slide Editing:
  • Video trim values are now maintained when applying Slide Styles
  • Modifiers can now be based on a specific duration instead of always scaling with slide times
  • Set the highlight color for interactive captions
  • Other Changes and Improvements:
  • 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 rare crash condition caused by adding shows to a project
  • Fixed crash condition in output processes caused by trimmed / cropped video layers
  • Fixed problems where layers in some shows / projects could appear black
  • Fixed problems with Copy Settings dialog when accessed from Slide List
  • Fixed wording in save confirmation dialog to properly indicate if the item to be saved is a show, project, or menu
  • Fixed missing save confirmation process when opening show / project 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 problem where show tabs in projects could be too narrow
  • 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 the Preview Options entry under the More Options button in the Caption Motion tab of Slide Options
  • 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

New in ProShow Producer 4.1.2737 (Jan 22, 2010)

  • Fixed problem where some MP3 tracks could fail to play and appear with a flat waveform
  • Fixed problem where video layer could appear transparent in Ending Position preview
  • Fixed problem where video layers could scrub poorly after being added to a slide
  • Fixed problem where video layers could fail to appear in slide list thumbnails
  • Fixed problems with clarity of some video layers
  • Fixed problem where very large images could fail to fully preview from File List
  • Fixed crash problem caused by rendering to certain formats from Device output
  • Fixed problem where certain Nvidia graphics drivers could cause image previews to become corrupt
  • Fixed problem with display of trimmed video layers during drag through preview
  • Fixed problem where Facebook uploads could fail
  • Fixed problem where 'used in show' flags within File List could fail to update after opening a show
  • Fixed audio problems affecting some video layers
  • Fixed crash problem caused by flipped video layers
  • Fixed problems with quality of FLV and WMV output
  • Fixed crash condition caused by cancelling the file save process while in the process of outputting a show
  • Fixed problem where preview playback could appear at the wrong aspect ratio
  • Fixed problem where incorrect error dialog could appear after changing slide style categories
  • Fixed problem where captions in Customize Menu dialog had incorrect options
  • Fixed problem with manually entered pan values in the Precision Preview
  • Fixed problem where layers rotated in crop dialog could fail to be displayed
  • Fixed problem where deleting a layer did not properly undo layer matching
  • Fixed problem where video layer could play at wrong speed after being flipped

New in ProShow Producer 4.1.2712 (Dec 15, 2009)

  • Fixed problem with Presenter plugin installation when installing on a computer which has never had a copy of Presenter installed before.

New in ProShow Producer 4.1.2711 (Dec 14, 2009)

  • Improved Preview in Slide Options
  • New! Improved preview performance makes working with complex slides faster.
  • New! New layer and caption control outlines
  • Improved outlines are easier to see
  • Grab any knob to change the size
  • New rotation icons in each corner let you easily rotate layers and captions
  • New! New keyframe markers and motion paths help you quickly see how a layer is moving in the preview.
  • Layers now show their keyframe markers in the preview, allowing you to see which keyframe is currently being displayed.
  • Improved motion paths include arrows to show which direction the layer is moving
  • Easily turn on motion paths by right-clicking in the preview
  • New! Added snap-to rotation when the SHIFT key is held during rotation. Layers will snap to 45 degree increments.
  • Caption previews now support the 'Select caption with mouse click' and 'Show caption controls' options (right click on the preview to adjust these settings).
  • Improvements for Adding Content to Shows
  • New! Double-click any photo in the File List to add it to your show.
  • New! Added 'Add as One New Slide' to right-click menu in the File List and to the Insert menu under main Slide menu. Adds the selected files as layers on a single new slide in the show.
  • Additional Output Options
  • New! Facebook Support
  • Create output for your Facebook page
  • Built-in support for uploading directly from ProShow
  • New! Vimeo Support
  • Create videos for the Vimeo sharing site
  • Upload HD video to Vimeo from within ProShow
  • New!Announce Shows on Twitter
  • Tweet an announcement about your show after uploading to Photodex, YouTube, Facebook or Vimeo
  • Fully integrated - just enter your login information
  • Automatic shortening of long URLs
  • New! Output video files in the Theora format, supported by most HTML 5 web browsers
  • Improved Photodex Uploading now provides a link to the show after uploading
  • Added option to pause video rendering
  • Added completion message to Web Show output to let you know when its complete
  • Enhanced menu theme list in output dialogs to remember the selected category and selection.
  • All New Help Documentation and Manual
  • New! Entirely new documentation written from scratch.
  • Based on user feedback, we scrapped the entire manual and help file and started over.
  • New documentation takes an instructional approach, rather than simply describing buttons and features.
  • Filled with examples of key features and concepts.
  • Organized by concept, rather than interface layout.
  • Reviewed, edited, and critiqued by real users.
  • New! Full manual available as a PDF from the Photodex website
  • Over 500 pages of all new documentation
  • PDF version available free, includes same content as found in the printed book.
  • New! Built-in help included with every copy of ProShow 4.1
  • Includes the same content found in the new manual
  • Provided in the industry standard Windows Help format, which allows searching and printing.
  • Improvements to Working in Slide Options
  • New! Enhanced timing control
  • New! Total time for slide is now displayed at the bottom of Slide Options
  • New! Click the total time indicator to change timing
  • Set slide time and transition times
  • See the new total time based on the changes you are making
  • See the difference between the new and old timing
  • New! Improved timing control in Slide Options > Slide Settings
  • Set transition times in addition to slide time
  • See the total time based on the changes
  • New! Added "Set Effect Time" to right click menus for caption Fly In/Out areas in Caption Motion
  • New! Added option to switch between minutes/seconds and just seconds for keyframe timelines. Option accessible by right-clicking on the keyframe timeline, or from within the Preferences.
  • New! Added button in upper right corner of Slide Options to allow direct access to any Slide Options screen.
  • New! Added keyboard shortcut CTRL+D for toggling size of Slide Options
  • New! Added keyboard shortcut for playing / stopping Slide Options preview areas (CTRL + Q)
  • New! Added "Copy End to Start" option to the copy menu in Effects tabs
  • Added reset option for background image fields to remove the background image.
  • Changed the "Motion Styles" feature to "Motion Speed" to increase clarity of function
  • Improvements to Slide Styles
  • New! Redesigned slide style list makes it easier to browse for a style
  • Enhanced the look of the Slide Styles list to make the layers and aspect ratio information more readable.
  • Added the recommended timing to each item in the list.
  • Improved layer # indicator in slide styles list to improve visibility and better indicate when it matches the slide
  • Added new Slide Styles list mode which shows only the style name, aspect ratio, and layer count, enabling more styles to appear in the list at once
  • New! New multi-category support lets you better organize your styles
  • Styles can now have multiple categories applied at once.
  • New categorization interface
  • Adjust categories for multiple styles at once
  • Change categories quickly without having to access each style individually
  • Add or remove categories at will
  • New! Improved style filtering options
  • Added bar above slide styles list to show the number of Slide Styles shown by the current filter settings. Can be clicked to show all.
  • Added option to filter slide styles by aspect ratio of current show. Select Match Show to display only styles that match the aspect ratio of the current show.
  • Expanded the layer filter to let you filter by a wider range of layer numbers.
  • Improved slide style filter for aspect ratio to provide more accurate results and better handle custom aspect ratios.
  • Enhanced the Slide Style filtering options to use drop-down menus instead of combo-boxes, allowing for more descriptive text to be displayed.
  • Category filter options now show the number of styles in each category.
  • New! Easily add slide styles
  • Double-click any PXS file in Windows Explorer to install it in ProShow.
  • When downloading PXS files from the web, choosing 'Open' (instead of 'Save') will automatically install into ProShow.
  • Import multiple styles at once from the Manage Styles window. Just select multiple PXS files when browsing for a file.
  • New! Quickly browse styles with 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons
  • Improved style storage, reducing the need to reinstall styles with each ProShow update
  • Slide styles are now stored in the Windows AppData/ProgramData folder
  • Multiple installations of ProShow on the same computer can now share one repository of styles
  • Easily backup styles by copying just the AppData/ProgramData folder
  • Greatly improved speed of using styles when you have a large number of styles installed
  • Added ability to access the Slide Style Manager from the main interface via Slide menu. Allows you to manage styles without going through Slide Options.
  • Enhanced Manage Styles dialog now appears larger, and displays a variety of information about the selected style.
  • Improved Layers List
  • New! Redesigned layers list makes it easier to work with layers in your slides.
  • Cleaner design provides improved readability
  • New icons for mask and adjustment layers make these specialty layers easier to see
  • Notes icon appears in the list for layers which contain notes
  • Improved display of hidden layers to make their state more obvious
  • Indentation shows the relationship between nested layers
  • Easily see which layers are affected by a mask or adjustment layer
  • Click and drag indentation lines for masks to change what layers are in the mask
  • Work faster and easier
  • Easily add layers by right clicking anywhere in the list
  • Quickly rename a layer by right clicking on it
  • Greatly improved performance of list when many layers exist in a slide
  • Improved Captions List
  • New! Redesigned Captions List makes it easier to work with captions on your slides.
  • Captions are now displayed in the font you've selected for that caption, making it easier to spot captions in the list.
  • Captions that start with a blank line now show their first line of actual text in the list, instead of just '...'
  • Caption list in Show Options now shows the global caption icon to indicate the captions appear on all slides.
  • Improved Slide List
  • Added ability to rename a slide from the slide list by right-clicking on the slide.
  • Added tooltip to Slide List that displays details on slide content, including number of layers, types of content, etc.
  • Increased right click area for slides in the Slide List - options for the slide now appear if you right click anywhere on the shaded slide. Previously, you need to click on the thumbnail itself.
  • Improved highlighting when dragging additional layers into a slide. Highlights now indicate when you're dropping into a slide vs. inserting a new slide.
  • Improved File Listing
  • New! Double-click any photo to add it to your show.
  • New! Customize thumbnail sizes
  • Added options and preferences for thumbnail size in File List.
  • You can now select from a variety of different thumbnail sizes
  • Create and use multiple custom sizes for thumbnails
  • Improved indicators for what's used in your show
  • Checkmarks on thumbnails and icons show which files are already used
  • Added the Used in Show indicator for audio and video files in File List
  • Added to Details view in the File List a column that indicates which files are used in the show.
  • Added ability to sort by what's used in your show already
  • Improved Details List
  • Improved column names in Details view of File List to make them more easily understandable
  • New Megapixel column lets you see the resolution of your photos in megapixels
  • Improved size column shows size in kilobytes instead of bytes
  • Improved Status Bar
  • New! Enhanced the Status Bar to information about the currently selected slides.
  • The Status Bar now displays the total time of the selected slides and the number of selected slides.
  • When only one slide is selected, additional information is displayed, including slide number, name, and layer count
  • Additional Improvements and Enhancements
  • Added option to set Random Transition Effects from Preferences
  • Added preference to disable warning dialogs when adding files to templates and the template size and selected file count don't match.
  • Added preferences to turn off confirmations for copying and moving multiple files.
  • Added button to remove watermark image from show
  • Added icon for files associated with ProShow, appears in Windows for PSH, PPR and PXS files.
  • Added safe zone toggle to Show Settings tab of Show Options
  • Changed 'Options' and 'Slide' buttons on main toolbar to 'Show Opt' and 'Slide Opt', and repositioned a few buttons to make the functionality more obvious.
  • Changed default size meter setting from VCD to DVD on new install.
  • Enhanced video import process by reducing dependency on external codecs
  • Enhanced visibility of icon buttons in most dialogs when the cursor is over them. Buttons now properly overstate (light up) when you mouse over them.
  • Improved performance of checking files used in a show for changes, which can greatly improve general responsiveness of ProShow in some situations.
  • Improved the 'remove' option for slide sounds to make it more obvious what the feature does.
  • Increased limit for manually set fade times for audio tracks, from 10 seconds to 30 seconds.
  • Added 'Remove' button for music on menus
  • Audio Fixes
  • Fixed audio failure caused by muting show from a menu page
  • Fixed audio stuttering problem caused by playing multiple Presenter based shows at once
  • Fixed problem where slide sounds could incorrectly continue into other slides
  • Fixed problem where some Quicktime videos could have bad audio once imported
  • Fixed problem where soundtrack volume did not get saved properly when set to zero
  • Stability Fixes
  • Fixed stability problems caused by very large shows
  • Fixed stability problems caused by certain memory usage situations
  • Fixed crash caused by loading a project which contained missing content
  • Fixed crash condition caused by long MP3 files
  • Fixed crash condition in Customize Menu dialog caused by empty menu pages
  • Fixed crash issue caused by importing certain Quicktime videos
  • Fixed crash issue caused by importing video from Kodak Zi6 pocket camera
  • Fixed crash problem caused by dropping an image onto a solid color / gradient layer
  • Fixed crash problem when creating output that can occur when one or more slides contain exceptionally long captions.
  • Fixed rare crash problem caused by certain layer transitions
  • Fixed rare crash problem caused by dragging multiple images into a show
  • Fixed rare crash problem caused by masking layers
  • Fixed playback crash affecting some web based shows that are played back at 16:9, but contain 4:3 menus, video thumbnails, and no intro show.
  • Fixed rare crash condition caused by Slide Style names that begin or end with a space.
  • Interface Fixes
  • Fixed default button for Add / Remove Keyframe Time dialog. 'Ok' is now the default button - allows improved workflow of typing a value and pressing Enter to apply.
  • Fixed display of unselected captions within the Caption Motion tab of Slide Options
  • Fixed display problem affecting motion paths in keyframe previews
  • Fixed error message regarding 'cannot display page' seen when opening Help
  • Fixed incorrect label in Shows tab of output dialogs, which incorrectly referred to the filename as the location.
  • Fixed issue where using the Edit Fades and Timing dialog would not check the 'Custom' checkbox for slide sounds, causing the changes to appear as though they were not applied. Custom checkbox is now automatically checked for you when you use the Edit Fades and Timing dialog.
  • Fixed issue with opacity sliders not adjusting properly when using arrow buttons to step slider left or right.
  • Fixed play / pause icons in Slide Styles tab of Slide Options to indicate the action to be performed if they are clicked, rather than the current state.
  • Fixed problem in Show Options / Background where color picker wasn't disabled properly for Colorize when colorization was turned off.
  • Fixed problem where Slide Options could open partially off screen
  • Fixed problem where Slide Options could update incorrectly after selecting a solid color or gradient layer from a layers list
  • Fixed problem where buttons could be displayed incorrectly
  • Fixed problem where caption fly-in / fly-out options were not properly disabled when working with matched captions.
  • Fixed problem where layer copy options could fail to become enabled
  • Fixed problem where long audio files would display their length incorrectly in Slide Options and Show Options.
  • Fixed problem where mask depth field could become inaccessible after using Undo
  • Fixed problem where screensaver output dialog contained options for setting show titles and thumbnails, which don't apply for screensavers.
  • Fixed problem where the soundtrack list in Show Options could incorrectly appear empty in some situations.
  • Fixed problem where using arrow keys to nudge a layer in the Slide Options preview would move the layer, but changes would not be immediately reflected in the related text fields for pan.
  • Fixed problem where zoom lock icon could incorrectly get focus, causing right-clicking to behave incorrectly.
  • Fixed problem with reset buttons for Character and Line Spacing options not resetting to the correct values.
  • Fixed problems that could cause slight errors in motion path display
  • Fixed problems with some caption control buttons
  • Fixed several layout problems in Precision Preview dialog which caused control buttons for adding / removing objects to be missing.
  • Fixed several sliders in Slide and Show Options to behave correctly when clicking on the left / right arrows (stepping) or in the scrollbar itself (paging).
  • Fixed typo in tooltip for zoom lock in Precision Preview
  • Updated description of Include Original Files feature more accurately describe the functionality of the feature.
  • General Usage Fixes
  • Fixed layer linkage problem that could affect non-replaceable layers
  • Fixed problem that could prevent Customize Menu to open for older projects
  • Fixed problem where "Add to Selected Slides" option would fail to mark a photo as 'Used in Show'
  • Fixed problem where Collect Show Files would list total size of show content incorrectly.
  • Fixed problem where Configure Image Editor dialog could fall behind the main window, causing ProShow to appear locked up.
  • Fixed problem where MediaSource references could get lost after uninstalling ProShow
  • Fixed problem where adding captions keyframes using the 'Add keyframe' button would always add between keyframes 1 and 2, regardless of the selection. New keyframes are now properly added in between the selected keyframes.
  • Fixed problem where auto-rotated layers could not be cropped properly using the Crop tool under Editing.
  • Fixed problem where duplicated layers could end prematurely
  • Fixed problem where entering certain single-digit sizes in the caption size combo box would incorrectly select the wrong size.
  • Fixed problem where existing captions could not be edited in Precision Preview
  • Fixed problem where image field for show backgrounds could become blank
  • Fixed problem where layer outline size was not saved with menus
  • Fixed problem where layers could not be dragged by their center point
  • Fixed problem where reset button for Customize Menu / Thumbnail zoom would reset to 100% instead of 50%. Reset now sets the value to 50%.
  • Fixed problem where slide style names could not include certain legal characters
  • Fixed problem where slide styles could report the wrong aspect ratio if created from a show in a project
  • Fixed problem where some imported videos could appear with an incorrect aspect ratio
  • Fixed problem with Compatibility option when saving a slide style not correctly making the style Gold compatible when blur is used.
  • Fixed problem with slide style names that could prevent those styles from being edited or applied
  • Fixed problems that could cause File List to update improperly
  • Fixed problems where caption styles could include incorrect parameters
  • Fixed problems where macro based captions could fail to update as slide positions changed
  • Fixed problems with MPEG2 video layers caused by malfunctioning codecs
  • Fixed problems with linked layers and replaceable image slots
  • Fixed problems with rotation based caption motion
  • Fixed quality issue in MPEG4 videos created with Video File output
  • Fixed the Gold and Smoke caption styles
  • Playback Fixes
  • Fixed playback problems caused by looping animated GIFs that were cropped
  • Fixed problem where layers could appear incorrectly at very low Zoom values
  • Fixed problem where layers with a zoom value of zero could still be seen
  • Fixed problem where layers with very low zoom values (0-1%) could appear to momentarily 'pop' to 100% zoom during playback.
  • Fixed problem where preview would appear blank in trial installations if playback was started from certain parts of a show
  • Fixed problem where preview in Slide Options could loop in certain situations (instead of playing once and stopping)
  • Fixed problem where slide background could incorrectly disappear during playback.
  • Output Fixes
  • Fixed issue where YouTube uploads could function properly but appear to fail
  • Fixed problem where audio on Blu-ray menu could loop incorrectly
  • Fixed problem where layers could appear incorrectly when High Quality encoding is used to create video output.
  • Removed the 720i option for HD video output, as it is an unsupported standard
  • Changes in this VersionFixed issue where Presenter plugin would not playback properly in Firefox and Chrome
  • Fixed rare crash problem that could occur with certain shows containing layer motion

New in ProShow Producer 4.1.2710 (Dec 10, 2009)

  • Improved Preview in Slide Options
  • New! Improved preview performance makes working with multi-layer slides faster.
  • New! New layer and caption control outlines
  • o Improved outlines are easier to see
  • o Grab any knob to change the size
  • o New rotation icons in each corner let you easily rotate layers and captions
  • New! Added snap-to rotation when the SHIFT key is held during rotation. Layers will snap to 45 degree increments.
  • Caption previews now support the 'Select caption with mouse click' and 'Show caption controls' options (right click on the preview to adjust these settings).
  • Improvements for Adding Content to Shows
  • New! Double-click any photo in the File List to add it to your show.
  • New! Added 'Add as One New Slide' to right-click menu in the File List and to the Insert menu under main Slide menu. Adds the selected files as layers on a single new slide in the show.
  • Additional Output Options
  • New! Facebook Support
  • o Create output for your Facebook page
  • o Built-in support for uploading directly from ProShow
  • New! Vimeo Support
  • o Create videos for the Vimeo sharing site
  • o Upload HD video to Vimeo from within ProShow
  • New! Announce Shows on Twitter
  • o Tweet an announcement about your show after uploading to Photodex, YouTube, Facebook or Vimeo
  • o Fully integrated - just enter your login information
  • o Automatic shortening of long URLs
  • New! Output video files in the Theora format, supported by most HTML 5 web browsers
  • Improved Photodex Uploading now provides a link to the show after uploading
  • Added option to pause video rendering
  • Added completion message to Web Show output to let you know when its complete
  • Enhanced menu theme list in output dialogs to remember the selected category and selection.
  • All New Help Documentation and Manual
  • New! Entirely new documentation written from scratch.
  • o Based on user feedback, we scrapped the entire manual and help file and started over.
  • o New documentation takes an instructional approach, rather than simply describing buttons and features.
  • o Filled with examples of key features and concepts.
  • o Organized by concept, rather than interface layout.
  • o Reviewed, edited, and critiqued by real users.
  • New! Full manual available as a PDF from the Photodex website
  • o Over 300 pages of all new documentation
  • o PDF version available free, includes same content as found in the printed book.
  • New! Built-in help included with every copy of ProShow 4.1
  • o Includes the same content found in the new manual
  • o Provided in the industry standard Windows Help format, which allows searching and printing.
  • Improvements to Working in Slide Options
  • New! Enhanced timing control
  • o New! Total time for slide is now displayed at the bottom of Slide Options
  • o New! Click the total time indicator to change timing
  • Set slide time and transition times
  • See the new total time based on the changes you are making
  • See the difference between the new and old timing
  • o New! Improved timing control in Slide Options > Slide Settings
  • Set transition times in addition to slide time
  • See the total time based on the changes
  • New! Added button in upper right corner of Slide Options to allow direct access to any Slide Options screen.
  • New! Added keyboard shortcut for playing / stopping Slide Options preview areas (CTRL + Q)
  • New! Added "Copy End to Start" option to the copy menu in Effects tabs
  • Added reset option for background image fields to remove the background image.
  • Changed the "Motion Styles" feature to "Motion Speed" to increase clarity of function
  • Improvements to Slide Styles
  • New! Redesigned slide style list makes it easier to browse for a style
  • o Enhanced the look of the Slide Styles list to make the layers and aspect ratio information more readable.
  • o Added the recommended timing to each item in the list.
  • o Improved layer # indicator in slide styles list to improve visibility and better indicate when it matches the slide
  • o Added new Slide Styles list mode which shows only the style name, aspect ratio, and layer count, enabling more styles to appear in the list at once
  • New! New multi-category support lets you better organize your styles
  • o Styles can now have multiple categories applied at once.
  • o New categorization interface
  • Adjust categories for multiple styles at once
  • Change categories quickly without having to access each style individually
  • Add or remove categories at will
  • New! Improved style filtering options
  • o Added bar above slide styles list to show the number of Slide Styles shown by the current filter settings. Can be clicked to show all.
  • o Added option to filter slide styles by aspect ratio of current show. Select Match Show to display only styles that match the aspect ratio of the current show.
  • o Expanded the layer filter to let you filter by a wider range of layer numbers.
  • o Improved slide style filter for aspect ratio to provide more accurate results and better handle custom aspect ratios.
  • o Enhanced the Slide Style filtering options to use drop-down menus instead of combo-boxes, allowing for more descriptive text to be displayed.
  • o Category filter options now show the number of styles in each category.
  • New! Easily add slide styles
  • o Double-click any PXS file in Windows Explorer to install it in ProShow.
  • o When downloading PXS files from the web, choosing 'Open' (instead of 'Save') will automatically install into ProShow.
  • o Import multiple styles at once from the Manage Styles window. Just select multiple PXS files when browsing for a file.
  • New! Quickly browse styles with 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons
  • Improved style storage, reducing the need to reinstall styles with each ProShow update
  • o Slide styles are now stored in the Windows AppData/ProgramData folder
  • o Multiple installations of ProShow on the same computer can now share one repository of styles
  • o Easily backup styles by copying just the AppData/ProgramData folder
  • Greatly improved speed of using styles when you have a large number of styles installed
  • Added ability to access the Slide Style Manager from the main interface via Slide menu. Allows you to manage styles without going through Slide Options.
  • Enhanced Manage Styles dialog now appears larger, and displays a variety of information about the selected style.
  • Improved Layers List
  • New! Redesigned layers list makes it easier to work with layers in your slides.
  • o Cleaner design provides improved readability
  • o Notes icon appears in the list for layers which contain notes
  • o Improved display of hidden layers to make their state more obvious
  • Work faster and easier
  • o Easily add layers by right clicking anywhere in the list
  • o Quickly rename a layer by right clicking on it
  • o Greatly improved performance of list when many layers exist in a slide
  • Improved Captions List
  • New! Redesigned Captions List makes it easier to work with captions on your slides.
  • Captions are now displayed in the font you've selected for that caption, making it easier to spot captions in the list.
  • Captions that start with a blank line now show their first line of actual text in the list, instead of just '...'
  • Caption list in Show Options now shows the global caption icon to indicate the captions appear on all slides.
  • Improved Slide List
  • Added ability to rename a slide from the slide list by right-clicking on the slide.
  • Added tooltip to Slide List that displays details on slide content, including number of layers, types of content, etc.
  • Increased right click area for slides in the Slide List - options for the slide now appear if you right click anywhere on the shaded slide. Previously, you need to click on the thumbnail itself.
  • Improved highlighting when dragging additional layers into a slide. Highlights now indicate when you're dropping into a slide vs. inserting a new slide.
  • Improved File Listing
  • New! Double-click any photo to add it to your show.
  • New! Customize thumbnail sizes
  • o Added options and preferences for thumbnail size in File List.
  • o You can now select from a variety of different thumbnail sizes
  • o Create and use multiple custom sizes for thumbnails
  • Improved indicators for what's used in your show
  • o Checkmarks on thumbnails and icons show which files are already used
  • o Added the Used in Show indicator for audio and video files in File List
  • o Added to Details view in the File List a column that indicates which files are used in the show.
  • o Added ability to sort by what's used in your show already
  • Improved Details List
  • o Improved column names in Details view of File List to make them more easily understandable
  • o New Megapixel column lets you see the resolution of your photos in megapixels
  • o Improved size column shows size in kilobytes instead of bytes
  • Improved Status Bar
  • New! Enhanced the Status Bar to information about the currently selected slides.
  • The Status Bar now displays the total time of the selected slides and the number of selected slides.
  • When only one slide is selected, additional information is displayed, including slide number, name, and layer count
  • Additional Improvements and Enhancements
  • Added option to set Random Transition Effects from Preferences
  • Added preference to disable warning dialogs when adding files to templates and the template size and selected file count don't match.
  • Added preferences to turn off confirmations for copying and moving multiple files.
  • Added icon for files associated with ProShow, appears in Windows for PSH and PXS files.
  • Added safe zone toggle to Show Settings tab of Show Options
  • Changed 'Options' and 'Slide' buttons on main toolbar to 'Show Opt' and 'Slide Opt', and repositioned a few buttons to make the functionality more obvious.
  • Changed default size meter setting from VCD to DVD on new install.
  • Enhanced video import process by reducing dependency on external codecs
  • Enhanced visibility of icon buttons in most dialogs when the cursor is over them. Buttons now properly overstate (light up) when you mouse over them.
  • Improved performance of checking files used in a show for changes, which can greatly improve general responsiveness of ProShow in some situations.
  • Improved the 'remove' option for slide sounds to make it more obvious what the feature does.
  • Increased limit for manually set fade times for audio tracks, from 10 seconds to 30 seconds.
  • Audio Fixes
  • Fixed audio failure caused by muting show from a menu page
  • Fixed audio stuttering problem caused by playing multiple Presenter based shows at once
  • Fixed problem where slide sounds could incorrectly continue into other slides
  • Fixed problem where some Quicktime videos could have bad audio once imported
  • Fixed problem where soundtrack volume did not get saved properly when set to zero
  • Stability Fixes
  • Fixed stability problems caused by very large shows
  • Fixed stability problems caused by certain memory usage situations
  • Fixed crash condition caused by long MP3 files
  • Fixed crash issue caused by importing certain Quicktime videos
  • Fixed crash issue caused by importing video from Kodak Zi6 pocket camera
  • Fixed crash problem when creating output that can occur when one or more slides contain exceptionally long captions.
  • Fixed rare crash problem caused by dragging multiple images into a show
  • Fixed playback crash affecting some web based shows that are played back at 16:9, but contain 4:3 menus, video thumbnails, and no intro show.
  • Fixed rare crash condition caused by Slide Style names that begin or end with a space.
  • Interface Fixes
  • Fixed error message regarding 'cannot display page' seen when opening Help
  • Fixed incorrect label in Shows tab of output dialogs, which incorrectly referred to the filename as the location.
  • Fixed issue where using the Edit Fades and Timing dialog would not check the 'Custom' checkbox for slide sounds, causing the changes to appear as though they were not applied. Custom checkbox is now automatically checked for you when you use the Edit Fades and Timing dialog.
  • Fixed play / pause icons in Slide Styles tab of Slide Options to indicate the action to be performed if they are clicked, rather than the current state.
  • Fixed problem in Show Options / Background where color picker wasn't disabled properly for Colorize when colorization was turned off.
  • Fixed problem where Slide Options could open partially off screen
  • Fixed problem where buttons could be displayed incorrectly
  • Fixed problem where caption fly-in / fly-out options were not properly disabled when working with matched captions.
  • Fixed problem where layer copy options could fail to become enabled
  • Fixed problem where long audio files would display their length incorrectly in Slide Options and Show Options.
  • Fixed problem where screensaver output dialog contained options for setting show titles and thumbnails, which don't apply for screensavers.
  • Fixed problem where the soundtrack list in Show Options could incorrectly appear empty in some situations.
  • Fixed problem where using arrow keys to nudge a layer in the Slide Options preview would move the layer, but changes would not be immediately reflected in the related text fields for pan.
  • Fixed problems with some caption control buttons
  • Fixed several layout problems in Precision Preview dialog which caused control buttons for adding / removing layers to be missing.
  • Fixed several sliders in Slide and Show Options to behave correctly when clicking on the left / right arrows (stepping) or in the scrollbar itself (paging).
  • Updated description of Include Original Files feature more accurately describe the functionality of the feature.
  • General Usage Fixes
  • Fixed problem where "Add to Selected Slides" option would fail to mark a photo as 'Used in Show'
  • Fixed problem where Collect Show Files would list total size of show content incorrectly.
  • Fixed problem where Configure Image Editor dialog could fall behind the main window, causing ProShow to appear locked up.
  • Fixed problem where MediaSource references could get lost after uninstalling ProShow
  • Fixed problem where auto-rotated layers could not be cropped properly using the Crop tool under Editing.
  • Fixed problem where duplicated layers could end prematurely
  • Fixed problem where entering certain single-digit sizes in the caption size combo box would incorrectly select the wrong size.
  • Fixed problem where image field for show backgrounds could become blank
  • Fixed problem where layers could not be dragged by their center point
  • Fixed problem where slide style names could not include certain legal characters
  • Fixed problem where some imported videos could appear with an incorrect aspect ratio
  • Fixed problem with slide style names that could prevent those styles from being edited or applied
  • Fixed problems that could cause File List to update improperly
  • Fixed problems where macro based captions could fail to update as slide positions changed
  • Fixed problems with MPEG2 video layers caused by malfunctioning codecs
  • Fixed quality issue in MPEG4 videos created with Video File output
  • Playback Fixes
  • Fixed playback problems caused by looping animated GIFs that were cropped
  • Fixed problem where layers could appear incorrectly at very low Zoom values
  • Fixed problem where layers with a zoom value of zero could still be seen
  • Fixed problem where layers with very low zoom values (0-1%) could appear to momentarily 'pop' to 100% zoom during playback.
  • Fixed problem where preview would appear blank in trial installations if playback was started from certain parts of a show
  • Fixed problem where preview in Slide Options could loop in certain situations (instead of playing once and stopping)
  • Fixed problem where slide background could incorrectly disappear during playback.
  • Output Fixes
  • Fixed issue where YouTube uploads could function properly but appear to fail
  • Fixed problem where audio on Blu-ray menu could loop incorrectly
  • Fixed problem where layers could appear incorrectly when High Quality encoding is used to create video output.
  • Removed the 720i option for HD video output, as it is an unsupported standard

New in ProShow Producer 4.0.2548 (Apr 30, 2009)

  • 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

New in ProShow Producer 4.0.2532 (Apr 22, 2009)

  • Fixed playback problems affecting DVD output on some players
  • Fixed issue with YouTube not handling some tags correctly
  • Fixed rare problem affecting Open File dialogs

New in ProShow Producer 4.0.2532 (Apr 15, 2009)

  • New! Added option to save YouTube output
  • From the YouTube dialog, you can save the file to upload later
  • Enhanced warning message in YouTube dialog
  • Improved quality of video layers internally and in Presenter based output
  • Enhanced seeking process for Presenter based shows
  • Fixed problem where YouTube upload could fail based on manually entered details
  • Fixed problems with image orientation in some slide styles
  • Fixed warning dialog that appears when applying a slide style
  • Fixed titlebar label in Help dialog
  • Fixed problems with Sharpen values in Presenter based output
  • Fixed crash condition related to cropping animated GIFs
  • Fixed rare problem where some video output could fail
  • Fixed crash condition caused by very long captions
  • Fixed missing Half Size thumbnail option
  • Fixed problem with Replaceable Image option in Slide Options
  • Fixed problems with thumbnail updates in Slide List and Timeline
  • Fixed quality issues with video thumbnails in executable output
  • Fixed problems with the aspect ratio of Web Show menus
  • Fixed problem with scaling for rotated videos in some output formats

New in ProShow Producer 4.0.2479 (Feb 12, 2009)

  • Fixed problems that could cause video output to fail on some systems
  • Fixed problem where slide lock settings could be lost
  • Improved compatiblity and stability of Device output

New in ProShow Producer 4.0.2442 (Dec 13, 2008)

  • Added support for latest YouTube high quality and HD profiles
  • Added option to the File List context menu to open selected file in an external editor
  • Fixed issue reported by a small number of users where Presenter could crash while playing certain shows
  • Fixed issue where Play/Pause menu time in Presenter plugin's context menu wouldn't show 'Play' correctly when a show begins playback
  • Fixed issue where some systems would not open the help file correctly

New in ProShow Producer 4.0.2437 (Dec 11, 2008)

  • Slide Styles
  • Apply effects to your show with just a couple clicks
  • Choose from over 75 pre-built styles
  • Create, save, and share your own effects
  • Apply pre-built slide effects to any show
  • Any slide can be made into a style
  • Minimize work by re-using your favorite slides
  • Blur
  • Apply blur to any layer
  • Use keyframes to turn blur in to a variety of effects
  • Adjustment Layers
  • Create special layers that apply adjustments to parts of your show
  • Adjustment layers behave like masks - easily control where adjustments are applied
  • Use motion and keyframes to create advanced adjustment effects
  • Keyframe Editor
  • Multi-layer keyframe control window
  • View keyframes for all layers at once
  • Easily adjust timing for multiple keyframes at once
  • Easily align keyframes for layers and captions
  • Zoom in and out on keyframes
  • On-Screen Controls for Playback
  • New control bar for Web shows, EXEs, PC Autorun, Share Show
  • Auto-hiding integrated toolbar appears only when you need it
  • See the length of a show, and your current position
  • Seek to any point in the show using the seek bar
  • Control volume and mute
  • Switch between full-screen and windowed view
  • Use output options to disable the control bar for your shows
  • Animated GIF Support
  • Add animated GIF files to any show
  • Put all that clip-art to good use
  • Use the Video Trimmer to trim the length of animated GIFs
  • Improved Audio Sync Tool
  • Get greatly enhanced control over how your show syncs to audio
  • Match to the entire soundtrack length, or length of any combination of tracks
  • Modify slide times, transition times, or both
  • Limit the amount of change to transition times so they don't get too big
  • Make all your times the same, or maintain proportions between slides
  • Time that are locked get left alone - so your complex slides aren't fried
  • Updated User Interface
  • New Slide Options interface groups tabs into categories
  • Refreshed Slide List display shows icons for locked time, layers, notes, and more
  • View Timeline in seconds or minutes/seconds
  • Add, remove and manage layers from most Slide Options tabs
  • Add, remove and manage captions from the Caption Motion tab
  • Easily access related show options from within Slide Options via links
  • Configure colors used for the interface
  • New 16:9 preview areas give you larger previews for today's hottest output formats
  • Use keyboard shortcuts to switch Slide Option tabs and layers
  • Menu buttons for previews, layers and captions put more features at your fingertips
  • Wider keyframe controls allow more precise timing
  • Names and Notes
  • Specify names for layers and slides to help you stay organized
  • Specify notes for layers, slides and shows.
  • Use names to keep your templates organized
  • Use notes to track your progress as you work on a show
  • Document how a show works before sharing with others
  • Modifiers
  • Advanced feature allows for options to be adjusted based on other settings
  • Link effect options between layers
  • Use constant or function based modifiers for settings
  • Rotation Center Point
  • Adjust the center point for rotation effects
  • Easily rotate images around any point, such as a corner
  • Use keyframes to move the center point during the effect
  • Lock Times
  • Lock slide time to prevent changes, even during audio sync
  • Lock slide time to the length of a video layer
  • Lock slide time to the length of a slide sound
  • Improved Audio Control
  • Trim / Crop Audio Visually in the Timeline
  • Audio Trimmer Displays Relative Show Timing
  • Control fade in/out for audio contained in video layers
  • Rotate Video File Output
  • Change orientation of video file output, great for vertical flat-screen TVs and kiosks
  • Collect Show Files Listing
  • Use the Collect Show Files dialog to save a list of content in your show
  • Additional Changes and Improvements
  • Set Precise Fly In/Out Timing with Right Click on Caption Keyframe
  • Randomize Pan, Zoom, and Rotate Motion Independantly
  • Option to Remove All Captions from a Slide
  • Automatic Check for Updates, with Preferences for Frequency
  • Preferences for Auto-Save Frequency
  • Preferences for Number of Backups to Save
  • Preferences for Text Displayed for Files in the File List
  • Preferences to enable/disable confirmations when you are closing Slide Options

New in ProShow Producer 3.5.2279 (Oct 25, 2008)

  • Enhanced Blu-ray menu compatibility
  • Enhanced template save process by adding option to unlink placeholders (disables 3.5's new tempate layer behavior)
  • Enhanced the Select File option so it respects linked template placeholders
  • Enhanced behavior of slide pasting where linked template placeholders exist
  • Improved rendering speeds for some systems
  • Fixed problem with clarity of layers within key frame transitions
  • Fixed problems with crop position in executable based output
  • Fixed problem affecting outline width on some layers
  • Fixed issue in which Contents of Slide list could flicker
  • Fixed problems with crop orientation in executable based output
  • Fixed problem where some layers could appear cropped during keyframe transitions
  • Fixed issue in which interactive captions could have unintended outlines
  • Fixed problems with some caption fade effects
  • Fixed problems with DVD menu navigation affecting some players
  • Fixed problems with rotation based settings in templates

New in ProShow Producer 3.5.2268 (Oct 4, 2008)

  • Fixed rare crash condition caused by some Text Effects
  • Fixed problem where caption outlines could fail to appear

New in ProShow Producer 3.5.2266 (Oct 2, 2008)

  • Enhanced Blu-ray menus to improve playback on some devices
  • Enhanced quality of Share Show output
  • Fixed issue affecting caption highlights on executable and web show menus
  • Fixed problem with gradient based vignettes
  • Fixed crash condition affecting caption key frames
  • Fixed rare crash condition that could occur when using certain caption Fly In effects
  • Fixed problem with drop shadows on layers containing transparency
  • Fixed problems with vignettes on some layers
  • Fixed problems with static rotation on some layers
  • Fixed problems with drag through preview in Slide Options
  • Fixed issue where Web Show HTML could use incorrect resolution
  • Fixed problems with PAL based Blu-ray formats
  • Fixed problem with high quality video output
  • Fixed problem with display of layers having large Zoom values
  • Fixed problems with caption spacing
  • Fixed problem with resolution fields in View HTML dialog
  • Fixed problems with vignettes on video layers
  • Fixed rare crash condition affecting Blu-ray output

New in ProShow Producer 3.5.2249 (Sep 18, 2008)

  • Added Blu-ray output
  • Added option to insert multiple keyframes at once with right-click on keyframe control.
  • Added option to specify exact key frame transition duration
  • Added option to close Slide Options without saving changes
  • Added default Motion Type and Smoothing options to Preferences
  • Added MPEG4 encoding for Flash output
  • Added MPEG4 format to Video File dialog
  • Added ability to drop images / videos into "Contents of Slide" list in Slide Options when at least one layer exists.
  • Changed default layer outline color to white
  • Enhanced DVD output to properly exclude Simulate option for DVD media
  • Enhanced behavior of template layers that use the same source files
  • Improved display of Safe Zone to increase usability
  • Fixed bitsetting problem affecting some DVD burners
  • Fixed problem where Video File output could ignore Include Audio option
  • Fixed problem in Record Sound dialog related to illegal characters
  • Fixed crash condition caused by layer duplication
  • Fixed sync problem affecting some video output
  • Fixed retrieval of track information for audio CDs
  • Fixed display of outlines and drop shadows on Show Captions during playback
  • Fixed issue where drop shadows could be drawn incorrectly on rotated video layers
  • Fixed issue where outlines could be drawn incorrectly on rotated video layers
  • Fixed crash condition related to 50 fps video output
  • Fixed video layer sync problem affecting some formats
  • Fixed crash condition in Live Image feature when using grayscale images
  • Fixed crash condition related to empty pages in Customize Menu dialog
  • Fixed rare crash condition that occurred when collecting show files to DVD/CD
  • Fixed issue where some reset buttons associated with Show Captions did not function
  • Fixed problems with audio volume in some output formats
  • Fixed issue with display of layers in Slide Options
  • Fixed issue where Live Image feature could cause a crash in executable playback
  • Fixed blurry menu display for Share Show content when using some browsers
  • Fixed problems with cropping video layers
  • Fixed problem with reported length of HD-preset video files
  • Fixed issue in which WMV output could exhibit jerky motion
  • Fixed problem where some caption options failed to use decimal values
  • Fixed problem with files created in Record Sound dialog
  • Fixed problem with display of video thumbnail rendering dialog

New in ProShow Producer 3.2.2042 (Nov 22, 2007)

  • Greatly increased encoding quality for YouTube output

New in ProShow Producer 3.2.2040 (Nov 15, 2007)

  • Fixed problem with Download More Menus link in Menus tab of output dialogs

New in ProShow Producer 3.1.2010 (Oct 8, 2007)

  • Added "HQ - Safe" profile for DVD formatted output
  • Added feature for downloading additional content from within ProShow (instead of including the content in the installer)
  • Reworked main toolbar to focus on creating shows instead of output
  • Reworked some elements of the user interface to improve workflow and reduce learning curve for new users
  • Fixed problem where Sync Show to Audio option did not check for audio in show
  • Fixed problem where Undo could fail to affect check box selection
  • Fixed problem where Watermark position values could be displayed incorrectly
  • Fixed problem with duration of video layers after using Speed option

New in ProShow Producer 3.0.1974 (Aug 16, 2007)

  • Added feature to control width of outlines / highlights on menus
  • Fixed problem where playback could stutter during transitions
  • Fixed thumbnail display problems affecting some editions of Windows
  • Fixed problem where the Choose Transition dialog could fail to remain open
  • Fixed various problems with object outlines / highlights on DVD menus
  • Fixed problem where video layers could fail to play in video based output
  • Fixed various problems with outlines / highlights on Executable menus

New in ProShow Producer 3.0.1967 (Aug 3, 2007)

  • Fixed problem where Drop Shadows appeared incorrectly for layers with Vignette enabled
  • Fixed audio glitch that could affect AVI output
  • Fixed display problem that affected some images with transparency

New in ProShow Producer 3.0.1966 (Aug 2, 2007)

  • Added a Template import / export feature
  • Fixed "Add to Show" so it now inserts objects after the selected slide
  • Fixed problem where AVI output could appear stretched
  • Fixed problem where WMV output could appear stretched
  • Fixed problem where show thumbnail change did not register as change to show
  • Optimized dialogs to make them more responsive
  • Fixed problem with time stamps for backup files
  • Fixed problem where motion path display did not function in Precision Preview
  • Increased the range of some caption / layer options
  • Fixed masking related layer order problem in video output
  • Fixed problem with blank preview in Choose Transition dialog for layer keyframes
  • Fixed label for Close / Cancel button in Record Slide Timing dialog
  • Fixed problems with duration of Galactic Scroll text effect
  • Fixed problem where looped video layers could fail to loop in video based output
  • Fixed problem where looped video objects on menus could fail to loop
  • Fixed crash condition that could occur when using Chroma Key Transparency
  • Fixed problem with size of selection rectangle on DVD menus
  • Fixed problem where Flash output could fail to complete at high frame rates
  • Fixed problem where track information was not retrieved properly for audio CDs
  • Fixed crash condition related to scaling which only affected some images
  • Fixed problem with audio from trimmed video objects on Executable menus
  • Fixed problems with keyframe area when using very long slide / transition durations
  • Fixed problem where template 'add files' warning dialog could not be canceled properly
  • Fixed rare crash problem affecting video based output with some shows
  • Fixed problem where screen saver output would not loop properly
  • Changed "Copy to Next" and "Copy All to Next" buttons in Motion tab of Slide Options to copy all layer settings
  • Fixed crash condition related to Problem Report feature
  • Fixed problem where trimmed audio was not included in Executable based output properly
  • Fixed problem where show soundtrack volume in Executable based output could be incorrect after a slide sound
  • Fixed display problems affecting some editions of Windows
  • Fixed problem where some keyframe buttons in Slide Options could fail to function
  • Fixed problem where some caption interactivity options could not be set properly
  • Fixed problem where caption styles could fail to be available for new shows
  • Fixed problem where File List could fail to indicate which files are used in the show
  • Fixed problem where background images on menus could be reset incorrectly
  • Fixed crash condition which could occur on older editions of Windows

New in ProShow Producer 3.0.1942 (Jul 30, 2007)

  • Added feature which recalls last selected layer for each slide
  • Worked around problems with DirectShow
  • Changed the Auto option under Adjustments into a button
  • Fixed problem with drop shadows on partially transparent menu objects
  • Fixed problem with menu thumbnails that contain transparency
  • Fixed problem where the Resolution field in Video File dialog could fail to update
  • Fixed problem where video rendering dialog could display incorrect aspect ratio
  • Fixed crash condition caused by using very small video thumbnails on a menu
  • Fixed various aspect ratio problems with Flash output
  • Fixed crash condition caused by copying slides from one show into another show
  • Fixed problem where video layers could fail to appear during layer transitions
  • Fixed crash condition caused by some Caption Interactivity settings
  • Fixed problem where Watermarks could not be colorized
  • Fixed various problems with Collect Show Files
  • Fixed problems with caption key frames on long slides
  • Fixed crash condition caused by working with older shows and projects
  • Fixed problem where copy options in Slide Options failed to copy Smoothing value
  • Fixed various crash conditions caused by caption matching