ProShow Producer - The Publish Workspace

The Publish Workspace

With your show complete, it's time to Publish your work and share it friends, family, customers, pets or random strangers on YouTube and Facebook.

The Publish Workspace Toolbar

The Publish Workspace Toolbar features the same New, Open and Save options found in other Toolbars, but the rest of the options are all optimized for this Workspace and are there to help you finalize and output your shows quickly.   

Let's take a look at the options:

• Menu takes you to the Menu Theme And Layout options.  From here you can customize the look and feel for your DVD and Blu-ray disc menus.
• Watermark takes you directly to the Watermark area in Show Options. From here you select and adjust any image that you wish to appear across every slide in your show.  A very nice finishing touch if you are selling slideshows. 
• Collect opens the Collect Show Files window.  Perfect for creating archived back-ups of your shows
• Capture allows you to take snapshots of whatever is in the  Preview and save the results as either a JPG or PNG image file.
• All Formats opens the Publish Your Show window.  From here, choose the output that works best for you and your audience.
• DVD takes you directly to the Create a DVD menu.

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• Blu-ray takes you directly to the Create a Blu-ray menu.
• Executable opens up the options window for Create an Executable.
• Video opens the Video for Web, Devices and Computers window.  From here, simply select the format that best matches how you plan to share the slideshow.
• The YouTube and Facebook icons will create a video clip of your show and upload it directly to your online account. Simply add a little information about the slideshow and press Upload.

 

The Size Meter

Just above the Slide List, is the Size Meter. You can think of this bar as being a guide for the actual file size of your show. Notice that it shows an output format on the left side of it, with a series of guidelines and number markings.  This is showing you the total allowed size for a particular format.

The Size Meter updates as you work on your show, letting you know if your show will fit in a particular format. For example, the DVD indicator lists values from 0 to 4.1 gigabytes, which is the max that you can fit on a DVD. If your show gets bigger than that, it won’t fit on the disc.

To change the format type shown by the Size Meter, just click on it. You can cycle through the various options to find the one that is relevant for you.    

Publishing Formats

To the right of the Preview you'll find the Publishing Formats pane.  This is an even faster way to select the output option that's best for you.  Simply scroll down the list to select your preferred method and press Create when you're your ready to publish your show.

Publish Workspace Tip:

• As you select different publishing formats, the Size Meter will automatically change to match your selection.

The Project Pane

 If you plan to add multiple shows to a DVD, Blu-ray, Executable or Flash, show,  you'll use the Project Pane to help manage the shows within your project.   From here you can add or remove shows, change the order of the shows and see the total combined length of all of the shows in your project.