ProShow Producer Slide Show on my Web site

NatalieKinnear

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2 Jan 2009 - 1:33 PM

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Hi all.

I put together a musical slide show over the Christmas hols, partly to learn the slide show software and partly with a view to showing my greetings cards designs in a slightly different way.

Will (Photium) very kindly added it immediately to my web site (I have to add that the customer service from Photium is honestly the absolute best - and no, he didn't pay me to say that! lol )

Anyway, the down side to the ProShow slide show for my web site, is that anyone wishing to view it has to download some sort of viewing software first, it only takes a few moments I think, but in this day and age of instant everything, my thinking is that no-one will want to bother. And I do understand that. So I'm not sure that it's actually worth having the show on the web site.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

If you want to see what I'm talking about the show is on my web site www.nataliekinnearphotography.co.uk, and click on Greetings Cards Slide Show on the home page menu at the top.

Thanks

Natalie

NatalieKinnear

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2 Jan 2009 - 2:05 PM

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Thanks. Yes that's exactly it. I was so pleased to have been able to include the show on my web site, but I really do think that people won't bother to view it as it's too much of a fiddle. So I'm thinking I might take it off again and just go back to ordinary images. It's a shame though cos the slide show is slightly light hearted and I'm thinking just a little more fun than straight images.

Natalie

NatalieKinnear

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2 Jan 2009 - 2:20 PM

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Yes don't worry, I'll leave it up for a while and just see if anyone actually views it. Thanks for your interest

Natalie

Mike Gray

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2 Jan 2009 - 2:45 PM

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Ok if you are a windows user, but will not work for a mac.

NatalieKinnear

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2 Jan 2009 - 4:35 PM

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Okay thanks. There is a flash show output option, and the one I already did, which needed the Photodex Presenter bit, was the web show output.

Do people necessarily have what's needed on their computer to view flash though?
Natalie

bppowell

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2 Jan 2009 - 4:58 PM

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Natalie,
they need the flash player from Macromedia installed to view flash shows. Most people do have this installed already, you should not need the presenter as well.

Barry

NatalieKinnear

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2 Jan 2009 - 7:07 PM

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Thanks. Yes I agree, and people are quite rightly justified in being very cautious regarding what they install on their computers. I have tried a flash output version, but it didn't come out too well. So I will have few more attempts and see if I can tweak the settings a bit to get a more satisfactory result.

Thanks everyone for your comments.

Natalie

pennyspike (e2 Member)

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2 Jan 2009 - 8:22 PM

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epz slide show tutorial
Hello Natalie,
I've just viewed your website and looked at the card slide show.
The link above is for the tutorial by Pete for creating a slides show Using Windows Movie Maker. I used it to create one for EphotozineTV as I couldn't use the one I'm used to.
I like the show but to my taste the transitions are a bit too quick and you don't see the cards for long enough.
The website as a whole is very attractive and if I was looking for someone to photograph a dog in your area I'd definitely seek you out.