ProShow – How to Make a Good Show Great!

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

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Frequently Asked Questions

How long do I have access to the course materials?

You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?

Definitely! If you have an internet connection, courses on Udemy are available on any device at any time. If you don’t have an internet connection, some instructors also let their students download course lectures. That’s up to the instructor though, so make sure you get on their good side!