Re: Going digital - projectors ProShow Gold

**"bbmackey" b*@prodigy.net**

After seeing Rich's post (thanks, Rich!), I bought ProShow Gold online for
$69.95 last Sunday, from www.photodex.com . It was delivered online and I
was using it before sunset. I haven't learned all its features yet but it
does a great job of letting you put together stand-alone slide shows,
screensavers, and video shows of the pictures, to which you can add text and
sound if you want to. It lets you make a show to put onto a website, too.

You set the output size and it automatically converts the selected photos.
If you have your photo files in high resolution (usable for magazine work),
it automatically places lower resolution copies into your slide show or
whatever you are making, without affecting your originals. This saves your
having to manually change the photo resolution of your shots one by one in
order to make a presentation.

I have seen plenty of PowerPoint presentations, good and bad, but have never
used the software myself. Has anyone used both of these programs? What are
the pros and cons?

ProShow Gold lets you make a show that can play in a DVD player connected to
a TV, as well as a  CD or DVD for computers. Also, the person playing the
disk does not have to have Pro-Show Gold on their machine, so presumably you
could sell stand-alone CD slide shows of photos. The screensaver maker has
possibilities too, as a tool for using your digital photos for making
promotional pieces or something to sell.

I haven't yet tried to get the timing right for a slide-like garden talk but
will keep on experimenting.

Lately I've done some live demos instead of slide shows for garden club
talks -- this solves many tech problems!

--Betty Mackey
www.mackeybooks.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich Pomerantz" <rich@richpomerantz.com>
To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 12:17 PM
Subject: [GWL] Going digital - projectors

> I see alot of slide shows put on by photographers and I don't know any
> photographers who use power point.   That's a program favored by corporate
> PR people in my experience.  Pro Show Gold is an excellent program for
slide
> shows that I have seen (and it's very cheap, around $70). Most of the
slide
> shows I've seen in the last few months (and that numbers more than 20
> different photographers, each of whom made their own decision about what
> program to use) were presented
> on i-view (both available for mac and pc). i-view has two versions, a pro
> version for $200 and a non-pro version for $50. I don't know the
difference
> between the two (google i-view and you can learn all you need to know) but
I
> know the pro version at least is also an image management program, so it
> kills two birds with one stone.
>
> And as far as I can tell, both of these programs are extremely easy to
use,
> especially pro show gold - I never see tech problems with either one,
unlike
> power point, which does get squirrely..
>
> These two programs seem to have the bulk of the market for photographers
> doing slide shows that I have seen.  No one in this world uses power point
> unless they are coming from a corporate setting, in my experience anyway.
>
> As far as which projector to use, the prices have been dropping like
stones,
> but the key thing you need to know is how many lumens you want. If you are
> doing shows in large rooms or rooms with lots of ambient light, you need
> more lumens. A large auditoruium, you'll need 2000 or more lumens. A room
> with windows that can't be blocked, 1500, maybe 2000. A small dark room in
a
> basement, 800 will do. There are plenty of places on line to learn about
> projectors - just google digital projector reviews and you'll find a few.
>
> Rich
> Rich Pomerantz
> rich@richpomerantz.com
> www.richpomerantz.com
> (860)355-3356
>
>

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