All-Around Proshow Producer Review

Proshow Producer is popular software that allows both manual and automatic slideshow creation. With it, you can turn your images, video clips, and music into dynamic photo movies. There are dozens of built-in effects and transitions that help you make your slideshows more engaging. Besides, the software offers tons of export options, including videos for social media, TV, mobile devices, and Blu-Ray. So if you wish to create beautiful slideshows with your wedding images or vacation photos, Proshow Producer is just the tool for you. Let's have a closer look at it.

Enjoy Premade Style Packs

Photodex Proshow Producer comes with a library of pro-designed templates. There are over 30 options to choose from, although all of them are only limited to 15 slides accompanied by 15 transitions. They are not themed and predominantly stick to a subtle color palette with very few exceptions. In case that suits you, you just need to fill the chosen template with your photos, videos, and music, and you'll have a stylish slideshow in a matter of minutes.

Create Custom Slideshows

If you decide that you want to create slide styles of your own, this program has all the tools you need. It offers you 800+ motion animations and transitions and tons of built-in filters to stylize your shots. Besides, the software allows you to customize animations using keyframes. Apart from that, Pro Show gives you freedom to work with separate layers and transparency masks, create pan and zoom effects, as well as add watermarks to your videos to brand them.

Export for TV, DVD, Socials

Once your slide show is done, you have many ways to share it. This app allows you to save your video for Facebook, YouTube, other social media or video hostings. There is also an option to export your project as a 4K video for TV, iPad or smartphone. You can burn your slideshow to DVD or Blu-Ray and accompany it with an animated menu. While you are free to use default video settings, you can also set your own parameters like file size, video dimensions, and format.

System Requirements

OS: Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP

Processor: 2 GHz (2.8 GHz or better quad-processor recommended)

Graphics card: onboard, minimum resolution 1280 x 768 (minimum 512MB VRAM recommended)

RAM: 4 GB (8 GB recommended)

Available drive space: 2 GB for in-program installations

Download Proshow Producer for Firsthand Experience

This Proshow Producer review wouldn't be complete without an unbiased look at its disadvantages. First off, it has quite a confusing interface - it has tons of buttons with no clear function attributed to them. That is why mastering this software is a nightmare (this goes to even a slightly reduced version - Proshow Producer Portable). Moreover, the software's library has no templates devoted to certain themes. And there is no way to preview these style packs before you use them.

Most importantly, Proshow Producer has been discontinued. Its latest version dates back to 2018 and there is no way to purchase it legally. Sure, you can find this program's crack online or get it from torrents, but you'll most certainly be downloading malware instead of a properly functioning application. There is a spiritual successor to this software called Photopia, but this program is relatively new (which means it's slightly too raw as of now).

Need a slideshow maker that would have the same key features of Proshow Producer, but would be devoid of its drawbacks? Consider SmartSHOW 3D. This convenient software is packed with hundreds of templates, transitions, animation effects, and music tracks. And all of that comes with a user-friendly interface and is accompanied by tons of comprehensible tutorials. What's more, SmartSHOW 3D's full version only costs $39 (as opposed to Proshow Producer's price tag of $250). You can download this software for free to try its limitless toolkit yourself.

SmartSHOW 3D

Proshow Producer

Extensive music tracks collection

Integrated photo editor & filters

Premade text animations styles

Built-in video backgrounds

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