Doyle Thomas Loc: Vancouver Washington ~ USA

yes

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

It was meant primarily as a “proof presentation” tool for pro studios to sell portraits and event photos. It’s not very capable compared to dedicated media composition tools.

bobbyjohn Loc: Dallas, TX

Do you have the Standard or Pro version of PTE AV Studio? And if Standard, is there anything significant that is missing?

lnl Loc: SWFL

I have the standard version. I haven’t learned nearly as much about it as there is to learn yet but don’t feel anything is missing. I think there is a lot more ability for customizing than ProShow (which I knew well). Check Barry Beckham’s YouTube videos. He is very helpful.

rfcoakley Loc: Auburn, NH

I'm still using proshow gold. It's installed on my desktop in windows 10 and on a laptop with windows 11. I did run into an issue quite a while ago when it started saying that the license key was invalid (might have been after their website became inactive). I found a solution online to fix, but don't recall the exact steps that were required to fix. I think it just involved deleting a configuration file after install and before entering the registration key.

Doyle Thomas Loc: Vancouver Washington ~ USA

yes

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Berkphoto made a perhaps derogatory remark about the "fat butt" of accountants. "Then came PowerPoint to ruin it all. Multi-image died off in the mid-1990s. "Too expensive..." said the beady-eyed guys in accounting with the big butts." Berk, Some people like "fat butts." I will remind Berk that accounting is one of the most popular in-prison educational programs. Decades ago the bulletin boards in the back area of Post offices were covered by murders and accountants. No auto mechanics or photographers. That puzzled me as a child. [humor]

Berk also mentioned "mid-2010s, we had 4K video" yes we live in a tech world in which simple excellent photography almost requires a degree in programming. NVIDIA has Python programming which is required for the installation of some AI programs directly on one's computer. Example Google's DeepDreams. I changed video cards for that reason... installing the DeepDreams program is still on my "been-gonna" list.

On the rare occasions that I make slide shows, I still use the Ashampoo Low-cost versatile program. Regarding video snippets, I am wondering that since Ashampoo will take MS Office PowerPoint, then will Ashampoo accept PowerPoint slides containing snippets of video???

One would have to have a linked file for the video... perhaps it may work...
"Depending on the version of PowerPoint that you're using, you can insert an embedded video (the default behavior) or link to a video file stored on your computer." What do you think Berk and others??
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-and-play-a-video-file-from-your-computer-f3fcbd3e-5f86-4320-8aea-31bff480ed02

avery48 Loc: Jefferson City

Thank you, dpullam. I've been looking at Ashampoo...also PTE-AV 10. Like them both. But I'm still waiting for PhotoStage techies to get back to me to see if they have a fix. If they can...I'll stay with it. Otherwise....

Never thought about connecting Power Point.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Sorry… I had a certain corrupt, beady-eyed, big-butted accountant in mind who was the poster child for that incident. He eventually got canned for visiting brothels on a company business trip to “Nawlins.”

Nothing personal… I took accounting as an economics major. I learned I wasn’t one, and have had since, the highest respect for honest CPAs.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

avery48 said in part, "Never thought about connecting PowerPoint."

Since you were interested, I search a bit more, the "biteable" tutorial [referenced below] comes with stepwise photos of where to click ... great!
Part of the text:

"Why is video so special? It’s predicted that by 2021, online videos will make up more than 80% of all consumer internet traffic. And yet, only 4% of presenters utilize video during their presentations.

This is surprising, considering that viewers retain 95% of a message’s information when they watch it through video. Compare this to 10% retention when reading text, and you can see there’s a huge opportunity to make your business presentations snappier and more engaging.

Whether you’re selling an idea, product, or strategy, you’ll capture the attention of your audience much more effectively with a video. Say goodbye to droopy eyelids. You’re entering a whole new league of PowerPoint presentations."

https://biteable.com/blog/embed-video-powerpoint/

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Video is the amalgamation of text, inflective narration, music, stills, motion… the ultimate media assault on the senses.

David in Dallas Loc: Dallas, Texas, USA

For just video (no music) there's nothing more simple that putting the selected photos in a folder, pulling one up in Media Player, and choosing the "Slide Show" option. The display time is alterable. I suppose one could have a separate audio file playing in another frame of Media Player.

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

Actually Davinci Resolve 17 is completely free. I have used it for several years and love it.

DavidM Loc: New Orleans, LA

Try Movavi slideshow and video maker. It's what I use and very simple to use.

https://www.movavi.com/adv/slideshow-maker-pla/?gclid=CjwKCAjwk6-LBhBZEiwAOUUDp_2Hi-SJAWhyr6clHKanfrkHUr4t6I3Oidf1Eik6W6ZohNp-CV3Q-hoCJqsQAvD_BwE

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

I googled "google slideshow program" wondering if Google Has been spending programing monies on such. That lead to "google slides templates" and a drop-down list of many other related topics... wow... If you teach math... yep there is a list of prepared templates... Halloween templates by Google on and on!!!

I am amazed by how much there for the taking material is there. When i did my first slide show there was no Google!