I have 2 questions about Proshow Gold.

1. How do I blog it? I use blogger if that matters

2. (really stupid question!!) how do I get the pictures to fill the frame so that there is not black showing on the outsides?


Thanks Yall!

Bump. Also wondering?

Thanks for asking, Amy.

good question.

I don't have a direct answer, but I upload my shows to youtube and then blog them that way... I figure that youtube is easily useable by so many people--and if I have my information in the show it's pretty viral marketing...

I'd love to be able to embed the actual show though...

Oh, and to have your pictures fill the frame, you basically need to zoom them in some to my understanding. Proshow is set up for monitor and television specs, so images don't automatically conform to that aspect ratio. You can adjust your images with their editing options that will cause them to fill the whole frame. That's to the best of my understanding anyhow...

Okay I got # 2 figured out.... still trying to blog it.

Okay I tried to upload to youtube but it says invalid file format. It would only let me save it as a .psh

Any suggestions?

Latest version will upload to youtube automatically. The thing is, once it's up, you have to wait for YouTube to convert it from an avi which is how it's uploaded to it's own format.

So... Patience is what I learned on my upload lesson!

The newest version of proshow does a one button upload to youtube. Once it is uploaded it takes a few minutes to become visible. To insert into a wordpress blog you would "insert a video" and paste the URL from the youtube site.

Here is one on my blog!!

Ugh. Okay I got the new version and went to upload..... It gets all the way until the end and I get a message saying to please wait while it is put on you tube or something like that and then the ProShow exits on its own.

There is a button on the last window of the process that says something like "click to update ......." It is a blue text link that you will need to click for it to work. I can't get a screen grab of it because I think it goes away after you update.

I fought this with a whole class of students trying to do it at the same time. Once you do it, it will all be good!!

Ahhh finally an error message[Window Title]Microsoft Windows[Main Instruction]compupic has stopped working[Content]A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.[Close program]but still no idea what to do

Hi Amy,

I am fairly new here so I have been a bit shy to post.

But I am experienced with ProShow, having used the product for almost 3 years, I started with Gold and then upgraded to Producer for the last year and a half or so.

I also have just recently created my own blog - but through Wordpress. I don't have any videos up for viewing yet but just have a link on my blog to my Photodex ProShow album. But this means whoever wants to view the shows there has to download the viewer plug-in.

So I've been researching how I want to put my shows up in flash on my blog.

It works the same as Blogger in that the video has to be hosted somewhere else like YouTube or Vimeo and then the link is put on your blog.

There has been much talk in the ProShow forums about converting the ProShow .psh showfile to flash. Even though ProShow has the capability to do that and upload to YouTube, the flash quality is not great. So what we all have been trying to decide is what product other to use instead to do the conversion to flash. The newer technology that uses 2-pass variable bit rate encoding produces the best result. At this time, I think ProShow doesn't use 2-pass VBR.

So you are kind of stuck with the lesser quality to place on YouTube, then putting the link on your blog. But I think if you make the flash file on your own and then upload to YouTube, it may produce better results. If you utilize the YouTube feature in ProShow, I think it compresses it twice which is why the quality is not that great.

Please feel free to join the ProShow Enthusiast forum if you have other questions regarding ProShow. There are a lot of experienced people there that will be happy to try and help you.

http://www.proshowenthusiasts.com/

For now, I think to get the better quality flash conversion of ProShow slide shows, you may have to buy something like On2's product flix pro for about $250. But I'm still researching other things to see if there is any less expensive choices that use the 2-pass VBR encoding. At least it's cheaper than buying Adobe Flash which will set you back $600 or so.