Explore the new features and streamlined creative tools in ProShow 9.
Get more creative control over your slideshow than ever before.

CREATIVE

NEW! Layer Filters

• All new layer filters let you add photo+video effects easily
• Over 45 built-in layer filters
• Combine layer filters with other effects like Slide Styles and transitions
• Use the layer filter browser to quickly pick filters with a real-time preview
• Easily apply effects like sepia, HDR, film, and more

NEW! Follow Filter

• Create photos, videos and captions that move together
• Use the follow filter to have one layer or caption follow another
• Pick what gets followed – position, zoom, rotation or tilt
• Specify custom offsets to create collages and grids
• Keep captions pinned to their photos
• Create multi-image layouts easier than ever

NEW! Motion Filters

• Add quick animations to any photo or video
• Over 150 built-in, professionally designed motion filters
• Combine fly in, normal, and fly out motion filters for unique effects
• Fly In motion filters animate how a photo or video come onto the screen
• Normal motion filters animate the photo or video during the slide
• Fly Out motion filters animate how a photo or video leaves the screen
• Customize speed and duration of motion filters
• Combine motion filters with layer filters, Slide Styles and transition effects

WORKFLOW

NEW! Color Tool

• All-new color palettes let you pick from built-in, curated sets of colors
• Create your own color palettes with your favorite colors
• See complimentary colors to help you create the perfect color scheme
• Variations show you slightly different versions of the current color to help you pick the perfect shade
• Improved color tool gives you a bigger preview of the current color
• See the original color and your new color side-by-side for quick comparisons

IMPROVED Video Importing

• Adding video clips to your shows just got a whole lot faster
• Up to 3x faster importing for videos
• Improved video import quality for many formats

IMPROVED Vignettes

• New vignette presets let you apply pre-defined vignettes with just a click
• Several built-in vignette presets included
• Create your own presets using your favorite vignette styles
• The vignette tool now remembers the last used settings

PUBLISHING

NEW! Publishing History

• See a list of outputs created for any show
• Quickly see what you’ve created, and when
• Easily find where published videos are saved
• Open published videos, or open their location in Windows Explorer

NEW! Publishing Queue

• Prepare multiple outputs in advance and queue them up
• Run the queue when you’re ready, and let ProShow create all the output
• Perfect for letting ProShow create all your videos while you’re away from the computer
• Manage the queue anytime – add, remove, and reorder queued outputs

NEW! 4K Video Output

• Create ultra-high definition videos with new 4K video output presets
• Easily access from the Video for Web, Devices and Computers window
• 4K video is 4 times higher resolution than 1080p video
• Suitable for creation and use on faster, modern computers

IMPROVED Video Output

• Improved video publishing for many formats
• Faster video encoding, up to 1.5x faster than previous versions
• Improved support for PAL MPEG-4 videos
• New an improved profiles in Video for Web, Devices and Computers

NEW! Hardware Video Encoding Support

• Get up to 2x faster H.264 video encoding on supported computers
• Works with dedicated NVidia and Intel video encoding hardware found on many higher-end video cards

And More

• New preference to always use a default font of your choosing for captions, instead of the last used font
• Improved Remix tool for the Wizard now remembers and maintains single-image/single caption combinations
• Improved Wizard preview now lets you save your show from within the wizard, great for trying different versions of a show
• Caption Motion Filters have replaced Caption Behaviors, and are now found in the new Filters tab
• Easily opt-out of WebM output when creating HTML5 video, which makes creating HTML5 output almost twice as fast
• Improved defaults for Synchronize Show to Soundtrack enhances how audio is synchronized in your show
• Improved network support makes it easier to use files from network shares, or when folders are mapped to network locations
• Improved support for running in virtual machines with folders shared between Mac + Windows
• Many stability improvements across the software