proshow gold questin

[jimstamos]

tryin the demo out for this, so far very nice. curious, theres one transition that is a page turn but the backside is white can you go in and make it the back side of previous slide? or can you only do that in producer?

[Jerry]

Look at it this way Jim, Gold is a lower priced version as compared to Producer. I would guess that certain items are not included in the $80 version.
Can you download and try the Producer version?

[jimstamos]

thanks for the reply jerry,
I just saw that I can customize the transitions as well in gold. I have used producder demo as well. certain things like keyframing and a few others that are in producer, ill never use.
actually for me gold allows me to do a lot of customizing so for now ill get that. after a year of using it I can upgrade to producer at a discounted rate. gold is light years ahead of imaginate. always something better.

[Jerry]

Key framing is the 1 item that you should have.

[jimstamos]

I do use it a lot for other stuff. give me an example for proshow

[Jerry]

You would use it the same way as you would in any other program. To detail movement.

[jimstamos]

have to say I really like the way proshow gives you so many options for the pics to come on/off. these guys im sure are outselling animoto which you cant buy anyway. don't think I would ever lease a software.

[Jerry]

The only problem with software that has that is it starts to have the cheeze factor if you don't watch yourself.

[jimstamos]

yea true, im just really impressed with proshow for the price. of course when imaginate came out we were impressed with that

[Jerry]

I can still rock Imaginate. Does Proshow Producer do 4k output?

[jimstamos]

I doubt it.
im amazed at some of my friends that will only shoot with the red camera because of 4K. most theaters are still doing 2K.
average person wont even notice difference watching on their tv or dvd player.id get the FS700 if I had the money.
what camera are you shooting with?

[Jerry]

I don't shoot any more. I was just curious if the product supported 4K. Stills are in that resolution and doing it native and then bringing it in to Edius will retain the color quality.

[SoundFreak_HD]

Both programs are good, ProShow is heavily automated and it's very fast to produce something striking, imaginate is really hands on and you have to spend more time to make a great show.
End results are very deferent, ProShow (if not manually tweaked) will look like any 'factory' made effects product, often overdone but nice for the young ones, imaginate if very lame when not modified but with some time you can really make the transition effect that enhances the collage without cluttering it.

Both are strong programs with truly amusing effects in ProShow.
Output quality I prefer imaginate.
In my trails ProShow often suffers from highfrequentie flickering here and there, which takes extra time in photoshop.

[Jerry]

I never use the effects within Imaginate. All effects are added after I do subclips of each motion still.

[THoff]

I can still rock Imaginate. Does Proshow Producer do 4k output?

It should be able to, yes. When you create a show you can set the resolution, and you can do that when exporting/rendering your show as well (it doesn't have to be the same as the show resolution).

Having said that, I just encountered a serious problem with ProShow Producer and their tech support has blown me off, the person I spoke to was too dense to understand the issue, closed my support case, and hasn't responded to any subsequent e-mails.

I was trying to export two Producer shows to AVI files using the HQX codec so I can combine them with another video edited in Edius and author a Blu-Ray disk in TMPGEnc Authoring Works.

It turns out ProShow Producer only supports RIFF AVI v1.0 files, so it can't create any files over 2GB -- if you output an uncompressed AVI file, you're limited to 8 seconds of video before the file winds up being un-openable. The support person didn't understand the difference between AVI v1.0 and AVI v2.0 files.

For any show authored entirely in ProShow, it is fine. I just need them to fix their software so it doesn't use an obsolete AVI format.