Why I buy this one ?
- Make advanced slide shows for your TV and PC, executables, VCDs, screen savers and more.

What our customer's say!

"A small price to pay for excellent slideshows", Breathe new life into those photos and video clips, add some music and a little creativity, and you've got something everyone will be impressed with. The first question I usually hear when someone sees a slide/video show I created with proshow is "Did you do do this?", the second question is "How?". The price is right, it's very easy to use and packed with more features than you will ever need. I would not hesitate to recommend this to anyone looking to make great slide/video shows without lots of technical know how.

"Love the program", This program has never let me down. The tech support is great. They are available with a phone call. The program makes great DVD's. There are occasional updates. I have now upgraded to Pro show Producer in order to do a little extra. The music is easy to add on ProShow Gold. I am not a computer wizard, and I have taught myself but there are teaching videos on youtube and also on Photodex's website.

"Are you guys behind the times??", If I'm reading Amazon's ad correctly, they aren't yet offering version 3.2. If that's true, I can understand the many negative reviews for this program, as I understand that earlier versions apparently had numerous bugs.
For what it's worth, I've used the new 3.2 without a hitch so far, but I will say two things to qualify that. I've only made one program, of about four minutes' length, and there is one hiccup I've noticed when building a show.
While gathering images to make a show, I made the mistake of trying to import RAW files (those that hadn't been processed as TIFF or JPEG files), and when the program attempted to recognize them (which it obviously couldn't) it froze up. Only after this happened several times did I realize my mistake. Other than that, I haven't had any problems so far.
I would imagine that most people who would want to purchase PSG would do so to make shows of their own images, for personal use and at photo clubs. In that regard, this program really shines. Of course, you can have slides and transitions of any length, and the program will automatically revamp to the closest time to fit a musical piece that is about as long as your slide presentation. And as I understand it from looking at the program's menus, you can time slide lengths and transitions to high and low points in your musical background.
But enough of that stuff. You can just download a demo version from the company's web site, and make an opinion for yourself. Let's look at a couple of things that you won't immediately notice about this program. First, when you burn a DVD for PC presentation, even though you will do so on PSG's highest possible resolution (I can't imagine why anybody wouldn't), the image playback from the DVD will probably look soft. There's a solution for that, at least if you're using Microsoft's Media Player. Go into Media Player's DVD menu and check the box that makes the computer fit your program, then go back in and uncheck the box that makes your program fit the computer's parameters (there are two check boxes). And don't display your program at larger than 100 per cent, which should easily be large enough anyway.
The second thing I want to talk about is why I gave the program only four stars instead of what should obviously have been five (at least so far as I've used the program to this point). Although a lot of the program is intuitive, it is still quite complex. Yet, the best instruction that I've been able to find so far costs almost twice as much as the program itself. Photodex sells three hands-on instructional DVDs, for a total of about $150, which is the only type of in-depth guide that I've been able to find so far. I bought the DVDs because I'm a serious amateur photographer and have finally found a slide-show program that actually measures up. It didn't hurt that the very first show I made elicited glowing reviews.
For what I use it for, I recommend PSG very highly. However, if you too decide to buy it, try to first determine how much you'll have to spend on educational materials to get the best use of the features this program offers.

"ProShow Gold been using 3 yrs... a bit of a disappointment", I'm a professional photographer and bought this program that was endorsed by other outstanding photographers.

I've been using this software for 3 yrs now. I have truly loved it for it's ease of use. Drag and drop system. It's gotten better over the years as its gotten auto rotate on pictures and better music manipulation. This program is great for small productions. 20 to 50 pictures. The program can't seem to handle a whole lot. It constantly freezes and shuts down (it does have an auto save feature that they obviously needed). I've also had many problems with the writing process. It's wasted many a dvd for me. Not all dvd players recognize the burn as well.

For those who run on a network this is definitely not the program for you. I've talked with customer support and they stated to me that the program will not operate with pictures on another computer over the network.

Today I had my last straw with the program and will be finding something else.
Thanks!!! and good luck!!!


"Awesome program that totally smokes", WOW. 'bout time. After using ProShow Gold 3.0 for the past month, all I can say is yeowzaaa. This thing rocks. Jeepers it's fast and very very feature rich. Only thing is I wish it had a better photo editor, but getting FIVE STARS anyway. I feel sorry for those that buy this program, then attempt to run it on a feeble PC and expect not to have issues. Good grief, try this program on a pc that it is meant for, then come back here and post up.

As to the earlier suggestion about Affinity settings in Task Manager, on a dual core system, this program uses both processors by default.

Trying to convert 3-4 hundred slides while using only one half of one gig?!! Cripes, that's not enough RAM. And how does memory management problem equate to a poorly written program?! The cs guy stopped, because he realized who he was dealing with. I too wouldn't argue with someone that stubbornly believes that 512MB of RAM can process and convert 3-4 hundred slides. LOL

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Dell E520
XP pro
RAM - 2 gigs
Intel Core 2 Duo processor
GeForce 7300 LE w/ 512MB Integrated RAMDAC

Read this reviews before You buy...

"A Winner !", (version 2.5.1635) After only 2 hours and 4 mistake CD's later (my fault) I produced my first SVCD with music. I found out by accident that the AVI movies that were in my photos folder could be added in as easily as the photo's, sound and all ! The drag-and-drop UI is very easy to navigate and the composition "fuel gauge" showing how full the resultant CD will get (ala Nero) is just what's needed.
All in all, its a pleasure to use. I haven't explored the niftier features such as subtitling and multiple compositions, MPEG output, email and web versions, but I expect them to be easy to use too. Oh yeah, I never even opened the Help feature !

"Not what I had hoped", This software seemed to be working great, until I tried to save the program to a disc. It then locked up several times and when I tried to reopen the slideshow, it wouldn't open it, it would just freeze up and not respond. The features to create the slideshow were wonderful, the reshuffle feature made it so easy to drop photos in and then randomize them. I also liked that you could see where in the music each picture would fall. The preview of the show was great, however now I cannot even view that. I spent several hours, loading pictures and music, formating them so they were just perfectly placed and saved the file. Now I have nothing to show for all those hours of work. Somehow the software needs to be improved.

"Mom recommended...", After looking at several options... this was it, no question. Customer technical help was easy to reach. I was able to create a really neat show. And I like the web site where you can look at contest winners and learn a few tricks to use on your own home show. However, make sure you save the shows as files, or if you move pictures to other locations, you will be recreating and/or relocating. However, the DVD produce version did not work in my older DVD machine, but did run on the computer.


"NOT PROFESSIONAL GRADE YET", I have owned and used this software to make a number of slide shows over the last year and a half. In that time it is indeed true many improvments have been made. My first use was with version 1.2 and I am now using version 2.0 build 1589 or 2.1589. There have been so many glitches it seems that new builds or versions arrrive, at times, every few weeks. This should be encouraging as it demonstrates a commitment to continuously fix and improve the software. If you own the software all these updates are free and easily downloaded from the Photodex website.

I agree with some of the other reviews in that it is exceptionally easy to produce basic slide shows. However, use of some of the more advanced features needs work. I am specifically not pleased with the functionality of captions and sounds being attached to indivudual slides. In version 1.XX the captions were "attached" to a slide such that using two duplicate slides back to back allowed you to fade in a title or caption over a specified length of time as you transitioned to the second slde with the caption attached. This capability was lost in 2.0. An option was soon added allowing a caption to float above the transition [remain on screen] between slides allowing this same effect to be simulated but the result is not as smooth. On the flip side allowing captions to function separately from an indivudual slde has allowed for a host of really cool caption effects. The current caption fade in/out option would be greatly improved if the timing of the fade could be controlled. Additionally, some of the other effects such as zoom in/out and pan effects are not smooth. These glitches are even evident in some of the slide shows I have viewed on the Photodex website.

The good news is Photodex seems upfront in that they publish what was fixed in each version [build #] and it is evident they are continuously improving the software. Do I consider this a profession grade product? Not yet. Am I going to continue to use and upgrade this software? You bet. By the time Photodex releases 3.0 or perhaps 4.0 they should have the best slide show software on the planet. It is worth the money.

"Bugs appear to be out", Excellent program for creating photo presentations. Earlier versions may have been buggy, but it appears that the major kinks have been worked out (though a few small things here and there could be improved).

Program outputs your presentation on to a CD for computer viewing, DVD or VCD for viewing on television or uploads it to the Proshow website.

The program is straight forward enough for a novice to get started and I was impressed at the level of sophistication that you could drive your presentation to (if you so desire). I've been looking for sometime for this type of program and so far -- I'm impressed and can recommend it.