ProShow - How to Make a Good Show Great!

Level up your ProShow Productions with hands-on training! Learn to enhance photos and videos, adjust audio, and create stunning shows.

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Brief Summary

This course is all about making your shows stand out! You’ll learn to enhance photos, edit videos, and even get into the nitty-gritty of audio! Perfect for anyone looking to take their ProShow game to the next level. Let’s make great shows together!

Key Points

  • Hands-on training with ProShow Producer features.
  • Learn to edit images and videos for the perfect show.
  • Understand music licensing and audio editing.

Learning Outcomes

  • Enhance and edit photos and videos effectively.
  • Understand audio editing and the legalities behind music.
  • Customize slide styles and templates to fit any theme.

About This Course

Taking your shows to the next level

This course is all about taking your ProShow Productions to the next level.  Sometimes the difference between a good show and a great show is in the smallest details.  Knowing what to do with less-than-perfect photos and how to make pre-designed Slide Styles and Templates work for you and your photos is essential to making a great show.

In this course you'll have hands on training with these ProShow Producer features:

  1. Image adjustments, such as crop and colorize, to improve not-so-great photos

    1. Free Editing software - Pixlr

    2. Using Colorize to correct color balance

    3. Using Sharpen, Crop and other elements to enhance a blurry photo

  2. Video Backgrounds

    1. Changing it's color to match your theme

    2. Looping indefinitely

    3. Changing the video speed

    4. Creating a Lower Third from a Video Background

  3. Video Content

    1. Balancing Soundtrack Music with Audio in a Video File

    2. Trimming your video clip

    3. Syncing Slide Time with your video clip

    4. Adding Layers with your video clip

    5. Adding adjustments, such as vignettes and drop shadows to video clips

    6. Adjusting the start time of your video clip to the middle of your slide time

    7. Creating a Picture in Picture effect with a Video File, Graphics, and animated text

    8. Cropping the video image to adjust for scale

  4. Music

    1. Learning the legalities between Copyrighted and Royalty Free Music

    2. Editing in the Timeline Mode

    3. Zooming into the Waveform

    4. Trimming your Music in both the Trim Window and the Timeline Mode

    5. Offsetting two music tracks in the Timeline Mode

    6. Creating manual cross-fades

  5. Slide Styles

    1. Adjusting to fit orientation (Tall vs Wide photos)

    2. Adjust timing of pre-designed Slide Style using Keyframes and Add Time

    3. Customizing graphic layers within a pre-designed slide style

    4. Changing graphics to alter a style from a Fall Theme to a Summer Theme

  6. Creating an entire show using nothing but Transitions!

  7. Templates

    1. Locating missing files in pre-designed templates

    2. The difference between a Template Show File (.psh) and a Template File (.pst)

    3. Creating a Slide Style from an existing Template

    4. Extending or Shortening Templates

    5. Opening more than one show or Template into a Project

    6. Combining more than one show or template

  8. Menus

    1. Creating custom Menus for a single show

    2. Creating several pages for a multiple show menu

    3. Designating navigation for multiple pages and links in a menu

    4. Customizing additional features only found in Executable Menus

  9. Choosing the best output for your show

  10. Adding multiple sound files to a single slide


  • Use Image adjustments, such as crop and colorize, to improve not-so-great photos

  • Use Colorize to correct color balance

  • Edit, crop, and colorize video backgrounds

Instructor

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Jennifer Clark

Jennifer started her career as a Video Editor and Graphic Designer back in the 1990s. She started her own business creating templates for Slide Show software in the early 2000s. She was able to combine her professional knowledge of Video and Graphic Design with this robust, but novice-oriented program.With over 25 years of experience in Video Graphic Design, Jennifer creates...

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4.9 course rating
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Robert B.
5.0
4 years ago

Bonjour, je maitrise bien cette partie de la music, ( dommage que Proshow n'a pas une 2-ème piste pour la voix off ) mais j'ai vus que vous avez quelques astuces, je suis satisfait, merci.

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James D.
5.0
5 years ago

Clear, concise and easy to follow along!

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Robin S.
5.0
6 years ago

LOOKING GOOD

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Dennis M.
5.0
6 years ago

I found the Music Editing/Adjusting and Fading really helpful. I believe that the right music synced with the slides really shows off your project and this was the most important aspect of this tutorial for me. I also found adjusting Styles and transitions to be very helpful. I tried out my "good show" (my original) and my "great show" (after some music edits, style edits learned from Jennifer's course) on some family and asked them if they could tell me what what different between the two shows was. they could--awesome!! thanks Jennifer.
Dennis

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Shlomo
4.5
6 years ago

Nothing was really new for me, thus so far so good. I wish I could have more exercises.

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Sherryjb
5.0
6 years ago

Loved all the tidbits I never noticed you could do. Things like including text fade out in transition, multiple sound effects, moving the thumbnail boxes on a DVD menu etc. Just makes things more professional.

As always, Jennifer is an excellent communicator. It doesn't matter if you are new or an old hand, her explanations are benefitical and simple to follow.

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Peter O.
5.0
7 years ago

Great info and clear tuition.

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Steve G.
5.0
7 years ago

upgraded to producer from gold
Found this course very informative and helped me to learn new things
Hopefully my next holiday video will look so much better
so thanks jennifer look forward to more courses in the future

Steve

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Stephen C.
5.0
7 years ago

This is an excellent course to discover the tricks to enhance your skill set in an easy to follow, detailed manner.

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Gil E.
5.0
7 years ago

very well explained and understood, learned new great things.

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