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I am experimenting with ProShow Gold from Photodex. It is a pretty good slide show editing program able to output to many files types. Their "webshow" output is a proprietary output file and requires a plugin download on first view. I am curious as to how much of a pain this is to various would be viewers. If you care to help out, you can go to my site, www.iamgequest.ifp3.com and after you click "Enter Site" choose slideshows from the menu tab. There is one show there to view. Any and all feedback will be appreciated.. Thanks PZ Patrick Ziegler ImageQuest Photography > www.iamgequest.ifp3.com this was the result of clikking message 2 - This site has not been configured properly or is unavailable. Please contact support at support3@ifp3.com JP Ooops, typo.. www.imagequest.ifp3.com PZ Patrick Ziegler ImageQuest Photography >> www.iamgequest.ifp3.com > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > JP >Ooops, typo.. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >> >> JP Pretty cool site. I watched the slide show. Took a bit to load, but not excessive. Had to install the plugin in Firefox first. I have pro show producer but have just played with it a few times so far. I thought about the possibility of putting up a slideshow on the web and thought about the issue of people having to download the player, and thought it might put some people off. Producer can output to a flash file and I thought I would probably go that route as most people have flash as a plugin already. Does 'gold' have that capability? Any way, I enjoyed it and glad I watched it. Cheers. Brian > I am experimenting with ProShow Gold from Photodex. It is a pretty good > slide show editing program able to output to many files types. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Thanks I don't do web-slideshow but I have been using ProShow Gold to create DVD slideshow to my clients, family, friends, and parish etc. and ProShow Gold is my slideshow of choice. I can give you some general info. - It works pretty similar to most similar slideshow programs, so you are pretty much know_one_know_all. But it has some features/options that most others don't have - It has large number of screen effects (around 300 or so) to make the slideshow less boring, and this is one of the main reasons I chose ProShow Gold - CAPTION is one of the features I don't want to go without, and ProShow Gold not only have caption but animated captions (it has around 2-3+ dozens transitions or so). - Unlike some very earlier VCD slideshow programs those kept the still images remain still images (no transition but delaying) those gave good image quality even from poor image and at VCD mode. ProShow Gold (and most currents) needs DVD mode to give great quality (without artifacts which shows on VCD and even SVCD). - Unlike some who burns directly to CD/DVD, I always save the MPG to hard drive first then DVD author using DVD author program to - Have more option to make the DVD looks great (Menu and Animated Menu etc..) - And I don't want to waste hours of work because something may happen to the burning process. And just like most if not all others some version may have few small annoying problems, ot not perfect. Like the auto safe-zone to keep photos insize the visible size may not work correctly because of the way the the program works, so I always make sure to make a quick browse through all images to make sure all photos are in the safe-zone. I have seen one created by ProShow Producer (photos were taken by me, but the slideshow made by my cousin) has one feature I like, but it's too spicy for me so I continue to use ProShow Gold (or I may overlooked the ProShow Gold??). Of course the Producer has lot more features but I don't have to know much about it. Patrick Ziegler ImageQuest Photography "DBLEXPOSURE" <celstuff@hotmail.com> wrote: > I am experimenting with ProShow Gold from Photodex. It is a pretty good > slide show editing program able to output to many files types. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Thanks I don't do web-slideshow but I have been using ProShow Gold to create DVD slideshow to my clients, family, friends, and parish etc. and ProShow Gold is my slideshow of choice. I can give you some general info. - It works pretty similar to most similar slideshow programs, so you are pretty much know_one_know_all. But it has some features/options that most others don't have - It has large number of screen effects (around 300 or so) to make the slideshow less boring, and this is one of the main reasons I chose ProShow Gold - CAPTION is one of the features I don't want to go without, and ProShow Gold not only have caption but animated captions (it has around 2-3+ dozens transitions or so). - Unlike some very earlier VCD slideshow programs those kept the still images remain still images (no transition but delaying) those gave good image quality even from poor image and at VCD mode. ProShow Gold (and most currents) needs DVD mode to give great quality (without artifacts which shows on VCD and even SVCD). - Unlike some who burns directly to CD/DVD, I always save the MPG to hard drive first then DVD author using DVD author program to - Have more option to make the DVD looks great (Menu and Animated Menu etc..) - And I don't want to waste hours of work because something may happen to the burning process. And just like most if not all others some version may have few small annoying problems, ot not perfect. Like the auto safe-zone to keep photos insize the visible size may not work correctly because of the way the the program works, so I always make sure to make a quick browse through all images to make sure all photos are in the safe-zone. I have seen one created by ProShow Producer (photos were taken by me, but the slideshow made by my cousin) has one feature I like, but it's too spicy for me so I continue to use ProShow Gold (or I may overlooked the ProShow Gold??). Of course the Producer has lot more features but I don't have to know much about it. Thanks Joel, did you know you can upgrade to Producer for $99? I appreciate your feedback very much, my real curiosity is how the experience is for the guy on the other end trying to watch an on-line show. Did you give it a go? I am very familiar with the DVD authoring features, I just upgraded to 3.0 and have been using the program for a while. Thanks again! PZ www.imagequest.ifp3.com <snip> > Thanks Joel, did you know you can upgrade to Producer for $99? No, I have only noticed they reduced the full price, but don't pay much attention to the Producer until few months ago I got the presentation from my cousin and I like the overlapping feature. And I am not ready for Producer (yet) > I appreciate your feedback very much, my real curiosity is how the > experience is for the guy on the other end trying to watch an on-line show. > Did you give it a go? Not yet! I am in middle of few projects which eating up quite afew CPU, and the newer ZoneAlarm (not the current latest v7.0.337 which is so bad but one version older) doesn't do well with CPU (whatever it does making most of my old aps eating more CPU than before) > I am very familiar with the DVD authoring features, I just upgraded to 3.0 > and have been using the program for a while. > > Thanks again! Patrick Ziegler ImageQuest Photography "DBLEXPOSURE" <celstuff@hotmail.com> wrote: <snip> > Thanks Joel, did you know you can upgrade to Producer for $99? No, I have only noticed they reduced the full price, but don't pay much attention to the Producer until few months ago I got the presentation from my cousin and I like the overlapping feature. And I am not ready for Producer (yet) > I appreciate your feedback very much, my real curiosity is how the > experience is for the guy on the other end trying to watch an on-line > show. > Did you give it a go? Not yet! I am in middle of few projects which eating up quite afew CPU, and the newer ZoneAlarm (not the current latest v7.0.337 which is so bad but one version older) doesn't do well with CPU (whatever it does making most of my old aps eating more CPU than before) > I am very familiar with the DVD authoring features, I just upgraded to 3.0 > and have been using the program for a while. > > Thanks again! Thats cool, if you get a chance, I would like to hear what you think. esspecially since you are familiar with ProShow.. Thanks again! <snip> > Thanks Joel, did you know you can upgrade to Producer for $99? > > I appreciate your feedback very much, my real curiosity is how the > experience is for the guy on the other end trying to watch an on-line show. > Did you give it a go? It seems loading now .. but seems kinda slow as it still say"transferring data from imagequest.ifp3.com....." 3 mins and still waiting (I am using cable modem from COX) > I am very familiar with the DVD authoring features, I just upgraded to 3.0 > and have been using the program for a while. > > Thanks again! Patrick Ziegler ImageQuest Photography "DBLEXPOSURE" <celstuff@hotmail.com> wrote: <snip> > Thanks Joel, did you know you can upgrade to Producer for $99? > > I appreciate your feedback very much, my real curiosity is how the > experience is for the guy on the other end trying to watch an on-line > show. > Did you give it a go? It seems loading now .. but seems kinda slow as it still say"transferring data from imagequest.ifp3.com....." 3 mins and still waiting (I am using cable modem from COX) > I am very familiar with the DVD authoring features, I just upgraded to 3.0 > and have been using the program for a while. > > Thanks again! Thanks Joel, thats ne thumbs down.. It loads fast for me, it could be network traffic in your area???? > Patrick Ziegler ImageQuest Photography > "DBLEXPOSURE" <celstuff@hotmail.com> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > It loads fast for me, it could be network traffic in your area???? Probably because it's already loaded from previous? I gave up after nearly 10 mins and will give it another try (unless it won't work with FireFox?). BTW, I saw the option to play the "IRAQ SLIDE SHOW"... OK, I just tried again and noticed FireFox reports "Firefox prevented this site from opening 3 popup windows" and I think this may be the reason. <snip> > > Thanks Joel, thats ne thumbs down.. > > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > and I think this may be the reason. That's it! it was Firefox which prevented the other window to load, I allow it to open and it's working now. OK - The transition is pretty basic and probably best choice for general like this type of slideshow. - I always like to listen to different foreign languages, and I really like the audio - Caption, I don't know about the web-slideshow but I know the regular has many different transition effects inclusing scrolling from Top to Bottom, from Left to Right and many others. I would think having continuously caption scrolling from bottom to top instead of one screen at a time then a blank screen in between. And about the photos, I love natural, emotion (furneral, war photography), culture, and just about anythign except posing. And hahaha if I have a pick either "go to heaven" or "Iraq with camera" (with safety of course) then I would pick "Iraq with camera" <bg>. BTW, I like the Iraq photos (haven't had the chance to look at others yet), and thanks for sharing. > <snip> > > > Thanks Joel, thats ne thumbs down.. [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > I would think having continuously caption scrolling from bottom to top > instead of one screen at a time then a blank screen in between. ... and may be not, because of the web-slide depends on the speed of modem, loading time (and ISPs) so it could have longer delay than normal. Or from the web it has few seconds delay (black screen) between captions. > And about the photos, I love natural, emotion (furneral, war photography), > culture, and just about anythign except posing. And hahaha if I have a pick > either "go to heaven" or "Iraq with camera" (with safety of course) then I > would pick "Iraq with camera" <bg>. BTW, I like the Iraq photos (haven't > had the chance to look at others yet), and thanks for sharing. > I am experimenting with ProShow Gold from Photodex. It is a pretty good > slide show editing program able to output to many files types. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Patrick Ziegler ImageQuest Photography PZ, I too have played with the PhotoDex software for slide shows. Very nice stuff, transitions, background music, etc, and plenty of export options. For the web though it is a pain having to get the propriatory plug-in. Though I have not done so my self, you may want to try doing the same similar thing with Adobe FLASH. If all you wanted was a simple slide show, with no fancy transitions or music in the back ground, Adobe LightRoom has export feature to the web with slide show options. > I am experimenting with ProShow Gold from Photodex. It is a pretty good > slide show editing program able to output to many files types. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Patrick Ziegler ImageQuest Photography You can use DVD Slideshow Builder which is very powerful and very popular now, many friends and I like it very much. It's very easy to create a customized DVD slideshow with photos and videos, and to add music, transitions, and cool pan/zoom effects and make beautiful DVD menus. Also, you can create .mp4, .wmv, .avi, .3gp movies from videos in other formats for our iPod, Zune and 3GP Cell Phones, Youtube .etc. To be important, it has great photo and video editing function that can meet all our needs. For example, you can perfect your photos with attractive frames, special mask effects, and rich Cliparts, Wordarts or Text. And it is easy to crop music to sync with slideshow. You can use the video edit function to trim the video, add the caption and frame to the video, and change the original audio with your favorite music, etc. You can download it free here http://www.photo-to-dvd.com/dvd-slideshow-builder.php?sid=8 And a specific tutorial is here http://www.photo2vcd.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1452 Some useful information such as tips to make slideshow awesome is here: http://www.photo-to-dvd.com/other/popular-way-to-hold-memory.html Patrick Ziegler ImageQuest Photography >> I am experimenting with ProShow Gold from Photodex. It is a pretty good >> slide show editing program able to output to many files types. [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > here: > http://www.photo-to-dvd.com/other/popular-way-to-hold-memory.html Thanks Bob, I allready have ProShow Gold, I just wanted to know what the experience was for the viewer when trying to watch the on-line show. PZ www.imagequest.ifp3.com |
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