QCS Review by Joseph Durham

In this computer age we all have memories and events we wish to recount and preserve for our friends and families. ProShow Gold 3.0 from Photodex Corporation is just the medium to bring those visions to life. Suzie Wanner shared her experience and use of this captivating program. She emphasized its ease of use flexibility. A novice computer user can find this program very helpful. The multimedia display prepared for our 25th Anniversary celebration was created by Suzie using ProShow Gold 3.0.

Suzie said the biggest effort is collecting, scanning and placing the photos and music on your computer. Then ProShow Gold offers you a kaleidoscope of options. It is a journey of creative fun!

In ProShow Gold you simply drag and drop your photos on a composition window. If you have arranged your photos in a single folder you can easily drag the entire collection for editing.

Once there, two powerful menu functions do the rest: Slide Options and Show Options. For example, there are over 280 different visual transitions you can apply to your photos, individually or across the entire group. Suzie said it is fun just to look through the entire set. The effects are stunning and then pick and choose which you think are the best.

Each photo in the composition window has a timer setting at the bottom that can be changed with to click of the mouse. To the right of the photo is an icon for text caption transitions that can be applied between pictures of different duration.

You can apply zoom in and zoom out features to your photo. The slide options offer you the opportunity to select the appropriate text color and background color for each photo, or for the entire sequence.

After your photo effects have been chosen, you can easily apply music background and voice-over commentary to your creation. Suzie used a program call CDex version 1.3 to convert music to MP3 format so that it could be easily applied by ProShow Gold

In the music options, Suzie chose a few mp3 tracks. With the click of a mouse these tracks were applied to video picture board and synchronized automatically. It sure appeared easy to do. Your finished product looks professional. ProShow Gold certainly puts photo editing at your command.

Once you are finished ProShow Gold can place your work in Auto-Run mode on your CD or DVD. A macromedia flash version can be created which would enable you to place it on the web with ease. Suzie did note that you have to be aware of copyright issues with photos and music.

Suzie said that ProShow Gold runs easily on the minimum requirements which are: 500 MHZ processor, 512 MB Ram, and 70 MB hard drive space. The optimum requirements are: 1 GHZ processor, 1 GB of Ram and a 3D video card.

ProShow Gold has created a special discount for QCS members. All QCS members will get notice of this offer in their email with the discount code included. The QCS would like to thank Suzie for her fine presentation.