In that sense I should probably say that in the future I will use the Wizard without fear.Īfter I was finished customizing what I wanted, with some transitions effects changed and the music adjusted to the whole length of the slideshow, I was ready to save my work. But I’ve no doubts, using the wizard made it faster, once I had defined the theme and energy of the slideshow, to get something close to my idea. I went through the wizard multiples times, until I was happy with the automatic solution it offered, and then took it to the timeline of ProShow Producer 8, to adjust what I felt should be changed. In fact, that’s what I did with the show used to illustrate this article. Once the wizard is finished, you can publish the show right away, or you can use it as a starting point. The program will redo the slideshow presenting other choices, which will vary according to any changes you made in the selection of theme and energy. When the show is compiled, you can watch it and, if not happy, ask the Wizard… to do some more magic. And it does not stop there, as you can create your own custom themes and effects for the Wizard. Built-in to the Wizard, you’ll find 45+ themes to choose from, featuring over 950 effects. The length of your show will vary with the amount of content selected and the energy level you’ve chosen. The theme and energy level work together to define the types of effects used in your show. You select the photos, videos, text and music, tell the Wizard the theme and how fast or how slow you want the whole show to run, and the process starts. It is a way of automatically creating a show with very little effort. The Wizard in ProShow 8 is not a canned solution where you’ve to accept whatever comes out of it. Working on a 30-inch screen, my trusty Dell, I felt I could, now, use the wizard in a more convenient way. Two things convinced me to explore it: the fact that I can manually pick, if I want, effects for each slide and each slide transition in the slideshow, and the fact that it is now possible to maximize “your work area by selecting the dialog size that best fits your screen”.
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With that in mind, I decided to try the Wizard on ProShow Producer 8, because as Photodex revealed, “the wizard you know and love is more powerful and better than ever.” In fact, the wizard now offers a new interface and becomes a one-stop-shop for mixing content, music, FX and settings in one window, to quickly produce a professional slideshow. We all learned something from the experiences. I wrote one article about a new software, Scott Simmons went on to test it and found it was quite an interesting option, for reasons he explained ( go and read the article) and then I went on and explored another assistant, the Video Snapshot feature in some Canon cameras. We had a good example of the use of wizards here at ProVideo Coalition, some time ago. This said, it is always a good thing to try features before deciding if they can be integrated – or not – in your workflow. Although I like the idea of having an assistant, I like to control the whole flow of images in a slideshow, so depending on a wizard is not something I do. One of the features from ProShow Producer I rarely use is the Wizard. I had to put the two words together when recently, just when I had picked my version of ProShow Producer 7 to create a slideshow, Photodex sent me a preview version of ProShow 8, both the Gold, for home use, and the Producer, which has all the bells and whistles for users wanting a little bit more of features and control. Mostly I like to control the whole process of creating a slideshow, but wizards or assistants are something we’ve grown used to, so when Photodex announced that the Wizard in ProShow 8 was better than ever, I had to give it a try.
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