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Slideshow related sites:
- DigiFlickers — our cousin group up in Kelowna, BC.
- Photodex Featured Photographers — shows made with ProShow by professional photographers
ProShow Resources:
- Choice Backgrounds — a site with ProShow styles and backgrounds for sale. But once a month they offer one of their backgrounds free for downloading
- ProShow Enthusiasts — a forum site with content submitted by enthusiastic users of ProShow. You will find lots of ideas and techniques to try there.
Registration on this forum is free.
- The Forum Book — a compilation of tutorials, advice, and instructions on ProShow Gold and Producer. While a little dated at this point, it is still a good reference source.
- Member Created Files — PSE's members have been amassing a large number of slide styles, tutorials and technique files that are available for free download. Many give examples of pre-processing in PhotoShop (or other image editors) to prepare an image for a fancy effect.
- YouTube! — many proshow users post tutorials there. Some useful ones are put out by these users:
- TayRen0319 — the owner of Choice Backgrounds above, shows use of styles and image approaches, a potential source of inspiration (of course hoping you'll go to her site to buy her backgrounds).
- PhotoGavin — a avid photographer who puts out a lot of tutorials for ProShow as well as Photoshop and photo techniques in general.
Web Resources:
- Adobe's Video Player — (for flash video -- it's free!) if you do your own web development, you might want to consider using this flash player instead of the one that ProShow inserts for you, I have found the Adobe one to be more stable and offers more playback control. If you are not web-page savvy, then stick with the pages that proshow generates for you.
- Wheel of Color — This site is intended for web developers and graphic artists, but allows you to take a colour and find complimentary colors to go with it (in designing caption colour combinations)
Audio Resources:
- Audio Network — A stock music site in the UK, reasonable prices on music �for personal use�, different levels of licensing so you can be sure you have the right to use the music in your productions. A good search engine to allow you to find music based on genres, �feeling�, tempos, lengths, etc. Being stock music it will NOT have pop culture tunes. However, if you play enough samples, you fill find the music is familiar since it is found in a LOT of documentaries on BBC, CBC, and PBS shows.
- Audacity — if you need to do some real sound editing, consider Audacity -- it's free(!!) and quite capable. (remember, ProShow is NOT a sound editing application! it can do basic splices and joins, but for effects, etc. consider a proper sound editing application)
- CBC Radio 3 - a great source of music from Canadian artists, often with links to the artist's web page, or sites where you can buy their music.
- Your local library! Many public libraries have CD collections, sometimes thousands of them. You can often sign out many at a time and find just the track you need fora show. While this is not the route to go if you will use your show for profit, for shows that are just for family and friends, it's a viable option.
Some articles penned by our members (or that have been found by members).
- Preparing shows for the WCAG web site. Mainly intended for our members, but guests might be interested in how to send large shows to other people via email, as well as our tips on preparing a show for a website.
- Show Share Manual coming soon! (for members only) -- a tool that allows our members to upload their shows directly to the WCAG site.
Please look at the manual (link above), then try the installation:- One-Click Web Installation
- Zip file — for those whose browser blocks the one-click link on the page above.
- Sounds & Narration: Shona's Guide to adding sound effects and narration to ProShow shows.
- Tips for finding Music files for show soundtracks -- coming soon
Slideshow Tools
We hope to create and collect some tools that might be useful to our members and guests when creating slideshows
Music Math:
What is Music Math? (click to learn more)
Shows often have more "punch" when the progression of images is timed to the music.
When you are doing this kind of synchronization, a good place to start is to align the start of a transition to the accent beat in your music. The slidetime for an image (or "slide") is then the remaining beats in the measure.
For a more relaxed pace that still keeps time with the music, try allowing 2 measures per slide, but still just one beat for the transition.
This calculator gives you a head start in knowing how long your transition and slide times should be. Tap out the rhythm of your music using the Beat Calculator, then use that average BPM and the metre of your music and a transition style to generate the timings. You don't have to tap out the entire song! just enough to get a good feel for the average beats per minute.
Once you align the starting transition of the first slide to the beats, most of the rest of the slides should line up. No music is perfect, so you will still have to tweak the odd slide or two, but that is still a lot faster than hand tweaking every slide!
If you already know your BPM (e.g. your stock music site often gives you this information), you can just enter it directly. If your music changes tempo several times, then obviously you will need timings for each passage in your music.
An example of this method can be seen in a show on this site: Harrisand used music math to get the rough timing. The author then only had to tweak about 6 slides to get the right fit.
BPM Calculator
Press "start" and then tap on your keyboard to count beats.
When you have counted out the beats to your music,
press "done".
Average BPM:
Current tap rate:
Number of Taps:
Slide Timing Calculator
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