Photodex ProShow Gold 2.5 Released

#1 Michael J Eva

This product certainly sounds interesting for users wishing to turn their vast arrays of images into fun slide shows quickly, easily and with a certain degree of professionalism. I'll be checking this product out further.

Mike
http://www.scenicsensations.com

4:04 pm - Friday, February 25, 2005

#2 Gustav Sweden

Well, it works as a slideshow generator for sure, but if you install it, have a nice day uninstalling it if you don´t like it... It doesn´t uninstall properly and a process you will have problems killing will remain.

That is EVIL!

1:59 am - Sunday, December 4, 2005

#3 tan

I want proshow gold 2.5

3:56 pm - Thursday, December 8, 2005

#4 Saeed Abbas

I will like to check,if there is some thing still can be make better or any error left in this.

11:10 am - Tuesday, December 13, 2005

#5 Larry Templeton

I've been using ProShow Gold 2.6 for about 2 weeks to put together a 300 slide show from 1900 available images of a recent trip. I bought it because of the Ken Burns-like motion features. I find it relatively easy to use with extremely satisfying results, but there are a few warts also. It locks up every now and then and has to be rebooted. Fortunately, there are good auto recovery features that prevent the loss of your show, but it is a bit annoying because it takes probably 10 minutes to go through the reboot routine and reload your show. I get a lockup a few times a day but overall the program is so good I can overlook this.

4:48 pm - Friday, December 16, 2005

#6 jpculver

Larry Templeton, re: your PSG 2.6. Very interesting. I downloaded, tried, bought, and loved 2.5. Started having problems with my DVD burner going slomo and upgraded (free) to 2.6. Then the REAL problems started. PSG 2.6 froze in the middle of burns, supposedly good completed burns did not work, crashes. Finally removed PSG, and reloaded from my 2.5 disk and guess what, all the problems went away. I've sent an email to Photodex and will see what they have to say. But it sounds like you saw the same problems as me. OTOH, 2.5 is absolutely flawless!!!

3:25 am - Sunday, December 18, 2005

#7 paul o mahony

have pro-gold(2.5)lots o problems. burnt lots of dvs for the first month,now gets so far and then, error files not burnt to disc and spits out the dvd(blank). i un-installed,re-installed,spent 5-6 hours. is there any help out there,do i need to re-boot a special way? help,love the programme,but its breaking my heart.

5:04 pm - Wednesday, December 21, 2005

#8 Larry Templeton

The proper reinstallation process may be more complicated than you realize. I received the following instruction on reinstallation from Photodex support.

"It sounds like the application is not installed properly on your machine. I suggest that you uninstall the previous version and the Photodex Presenter and then install the new ProShow Gold version 2.6 Build 1745. Make sure that you disable your anti-virus software before installing the new version of the program, as well as when you open the program for the first time. Then you need to search your machine for "*.pxc" and remove the cache file that is associated to all your slide shows. Now go into the directory where you save your slide show projects and locate a folder in the following format "nameofshow_psdata" then remove this folder."

I hope this helps.
Larry

6:29 pm - Wednesday, December 21, 2005

#9 Patty

I had 2.5 and loved it. I paid to upgrade to 2.6 and after spending hours uninstalling and reinstalling, I am calling today for a refund. It has many glitches including playing already saved shows differently. The upgrade is not worth the money.

2:02 pm - Monday, January 16, 2006

#10 otari

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2:51 pm - Monday, February 13, 2006

#11 Sharon Flanders

I find Photodex ProShow Gold version 2.6 a wonderful program. It is user friendly and has lots of options to make a first time slideshow look professional. Although I am having 2 big problems.
I am using Photodex software to create a slideshow for my parents 50th anniversary. I have 175 photos and 10 audio files. For some reason, the when opening my slideshow file, it wants to upload other audio files that I have not used at all in the slideshow. I thought I got around this problem by renaming the audiofiles, but the program upon opening my file, uploaded four other audiofiles. The names of these files do not appear in the options -audio listing of files when I am using my slideshow file. The problem is when I play back the slideshow file, about 2/3 through the show, these songs are superimposed on the songs I had chosen to play...so 2 songs are playing at once! I do not see any options within the program to fix this...not sure if it is bug in the system. And at times, the program just abruptly shuts down. I ran diskscan, antivirus scans to make sure my program was running as efficiently as possible.
The other problem of the program abruptly shutting down is major. I was unable to get back into my file for a day while I figured out different ways to trick the system. But now that I am back in my slideshow file, it still abruptly closes down.

I am awaiting a response from the technical support group to help me fix this in time for the anniversary party.

4:40 pm - Sunday, February 26, 2006

#12 Ron Goins

If you elect to download ProShow Gold from Photodex instead of ordering the CD--Good Luck! It would be logical for software in this price range would, at least, have an instructional PSD file. Forget it. I contacted Photodex via eMail and receive an answer that I would have to pay $10, plus shipping for an instruction manuel or print out the "HELP" menu.

For any first-time user of PSG you will have to learn to use it by trial & error, help from other users, or the "HELP" feature. If anyone has ever had to learn new software using the "HELP" menu, you know what I mean.

The program may be great but Photodex itself seems to be a little "rinky-dink".

4:06 pm - Sunday, March 5, 2006

#13 ZIZO

GOOD

9:39 pm - Friday, March 31, 2006

#14 Colin

Can anyone tell me where to set PSG show for a continual replay loop, for TV dvd play, can't seem to find the setting

thanks
Colin

7:42 pm - Saturday, July 22, 2006

#15 Neto

Excelente programa, o melhor que já conheci!

12:00 pm - Thursday, December 21, 2006

#16 Keith Oliver

Using Photodex Producer, great product, gives a professional presentation, look forward to any new updates

12:12 pm - Thursday, May 3, 2007

#17 Jennifer

I purchased ProShow Gold before Christmas and absolutely loved it! Then, I was sent a notice that I needed to upgrade, so I did...BIG mistake, HUGE! Now, I'm having issues with the DVDs not burning, etc. I spent 1hour, 45mins. on Friday getting to know one of the techs who was friendly and tried to help, but it's still hit or miss at best. I'm really tempted to uninstall the whole thing and go back to the original program.

12:56 am - Monday, May 21, 2007

#18 Rob

This program is crap. As a professional techie, I have worked on several computers that have had issues with ProShow. It truly is a hit-or-miss scenario with this proggie. You would be wise to stay away from it.

2:05 pm - Wednesday, November 12, 2008

#19 Rich

i have a slideshow of photos of my family the program is "Photodex Presenter”. dose anyone know know how i could get the photos off the slideshow?

5:08 pm - Monday, December 21, 2009