ProShow Gold 4.5 was a significant update that added a wizard for automatic show creation and over 110 new transition effects.

New! Create Shows Automatically

• Wizard effortlessly builds complete shows with photos, videos, music and effects
• Wizard intelligently adds effects and builds a custom show with your content
• Nearly instant preview of your show – no need to wait for rendering
• Wizard shows can be edited in ProShow for full creative control
• Add photos, videos, text and music
• Control order of content, trim videos, and edit text
• Add your own custom soundtrack
• Pick from 14 different themes
• Create your own themes, and edit existing themes
• Bias the energy level to create shows that are calm, or shows that are a little crazy

New! Over 110 New Transition Effects

• New effects you can use in any show
• Page curl, camera flash, gloss, curved path and more
• ProShow Gold now includes over 390 transition effects
• Add even more transitions with new Transition Packs

New! All New Transition Chooser

• Completely redesigned interface for browsing and selecting transitions
• Categories let you easily search similar effects
• See the name and description of the selected effect
• Single-click to preview, double-click to apply (or just select, and click ‘Apply’)
• Drag the Transition Chooser to any spot on your screen
• From the preferences, configure ProShow to open the Transition Chooser where you left it
• Resize the Transition Chooser to control how much you see at once

New! New Interface for Creating a New Show

• Improved New Show interface provides more options for starting a new show
• Launch the wizard to build a show automatically
• Create a new blank show, and specify the title and aspect ratio
• Open any recently used show
• Browse for an existing show to open
• New Show interface opens automatically at startup (can be disabled)

New! Over 90 New Slide Styles

• Apply these new effects to any slide
• Focused on elegant and essential effects that work well in all shows
• ProShow Gold now includes over 140 slide styles

New! Improved Video Creation

• Support for HD uploads to Vimeo
• Support for YouTube shows up to 15 minutes (previously limited to 10 minutes)
• Enhanced the overall quality of several video formats when using the Device Output feature
• Improved quality of MPEG 4 based video output

Other Changes and Improvements

• Video trim values are now maintained when applying Slide Styles
• Folders list now provides access to Windows Music and Videos folders
• Fixed problem with audio clicks / blips at the beginning and end of audio tracks
• Fixed crash condition in output processes caused by trimmed / cropped video layers
• Fixed problems where layers in some shows could appear black
• Fixed missing save confirmation process when opening show from outside ProShow and show is already open
• Fixed quality problem affecting left channel of AAC based video output
• Fixed problem where Windows Taskbar could cover Choose Transition dialog
• Fixed video thumbnail option for Blu-ray menus
• Fixed rare problem where progressive encoded video output could be interlaced
• Fixed problem where layer Flip options could be reset when changing source files
• Fixed typo in Synchronize Show to Soundtrack dialog
• Fixed problems with AAC audio in video output
• Fixed problems where the Total Time field in Slide Options could fail to update
• Fixed startup problem caused by text setting in Windows 7
• Fixed video import failure affecting some MOV files
• Fixed the Pause button in DVD disc rendering dialog
• Fixed problem where video rendering could appear to stall on some shows
• Fixed problem where changing the source file for a video layer could incorrectly update slide time
• Fixed label in list of caption texture scaling options
• Fixed problem with missing right click menu for slide background image field
• Fixed problem where current slide name could fail to appear in Rename Slide dialog
• Fixed problem where MP4 files could fail to show in open file dialogs
• Fixed problem with Vimeo output
• Fixed problems with show backgrounds set to solid color
• Fixed problem where some MP3 files could fail to import properly
• Added option to cancel content import processes within the wizard
• Added ability to select multiple pieces of content at once in the wizard
• Shows created from wizard now include theme and energy values in Show Notes
• Fixed video import problem where multiple crash reports could occur
• Fixed problem where slide sounds could end prematurely
• Fixed crash problem that could occur while loading a slideshow
• Fixed problem where ProShow could appear to hang if closed while minimized
• Fixed problem where some MP3s were being reported as invalid
• Fixed crash caused by having too few layers when applying a slide style
• Fixed problem where some video layers could playback too quickly
• Fixed problems with layer order in shows created by the wizard
• Fixed problem where blank shows could be created with the wrong custom aspect ratio
• Fixed problems caused by changing title of Blank Show in New Slide Show dialog
• Fixed crash condition that could occur after applying a slide style
• Fixed problem where slides could become blank after sending a Problem Report