• Create instant shows with the built-in wizard.
• Choose from hundreds of effects and over 50 themes.
• Wizard intelligently creates unique shows from your content.
• Professional-looking shows in seconds

Layers

• Add an unlimited number of layers to any slide.
• Drag and drop to easily add content to a show.
• Supports 100+ file types including RAW.
• Animated Gif support
• Transparency support for PSD, PNG, TIFF and GIF files.
• Turn any layer into a fully-customized mask to conceal or reveal aspects of underlying layers.
• Add a gradient or solid color as a slide layer to a layer to get incredible results.
• Use interactive slide actions to launch PDFs, spreadsheets, webpages and more.
• Set transition effects for individual layers.
• Modifiers

Editing

• Optimize your workflow using built-in image correction tools like sharpen, colorize, saturate and more.
• Create enhanced borders for your photos and videos with ProShow Producer's all-new vignette effect.
• Create Hollywood-style greenscreen effects with the all-new Chroma Key Transparency tool.
• Specify opacity for any layer on a slide.
• Add depth to your composition by adjusting the color and opacity of a shadow on any layer in a slide.
• Crop and rotate your photos and videos with precision.
• Use the red-eye removal tool to correct any photo in your show in seconds.

Adjustment Layers & Effects

• Use an adjustment layer to affect all underlying layers, allowing you to create unique effects like a moving spotlight or a soft image filter.
• Use adjustment effects to produce spectacular effects. Make a video move through color shifts or create a sequence of photo fades.
• Add multiple keyframes to each adjustment effect.

Slide Styles and Transitions

• Over 100 built-in slide styles.
• Over 300 built-in transitions.
• Instant special effects for your slides.
• Create and save your own slide styles and transitions.

Motion

• Add motion like pan, zoom and rotate to any layer on a slide for a cinematic effect.
• Zoom X and Y coordinates for a layer individually and zoom out further than ever before.
• Create complex motion paths by setting multiple keyframe points on the keyframe timeline.
• Dedicated keyframe editor.
• The fully-customizable slide preview grid allows you to accurately position your photos and videos on a slide.

Captions

• Control the font, size and color of captions in your slides.
• Use caption keyframing to create multiple caption motion effects on a single slide.
• Animate your captions with more amazing effects to choose from than ever before.
• Add interactive captions to launch actions like Pause, Resume, Next Slide, Previous Slide, Write Email and many more.
• Gain greater design control over captions with ProShow Producer's new caption styles, caption line spacing and caption character features.

Music and Sounds

• New Audio Sync Dialog
• Enhance slide shows by dropping in any MP3 or WAV audio file.
• Save an audio track directly from a CD and drop it right into your slide show.
• Crop your audio and set fades using the built-in Audio Trimmer.
• Built-in soundtrack waveform in slide list.
• Waveform audio trimmer. 

Backgrounds

• Add interest to your slide shows with solid colors, gradients, or videos as backgrounds.
• Use the new, built-in backgrounds to spruce-up your slide shows.
• Control the adjustment levels of your background content.

ProShow Producer Output Formats

• Blu-ray (HD)
• DVD (with PC playback)
• VCD (with PC playback)
• Autorun CD
• Self-contained EXE
• Share shows via email
• Streaming web show
• Free online show sharing
• Streaming Flash video
• Compressed AVI
• Uncompressed AVI
• QuickTime video
• High definition video (HD)
• Windows Media Video (WMV)
• Device Output*
• Direct YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo & Twitter Uploading
• Theora Video output
• MPEG 1 and 2
• Screensaver

Productivity

• Use Notes to describe shows, layers and slides.
• Lock Slide Timings for better overall control.
• Set layer names with descriptive labels for easy locating and organizing.
• Use slide show templates to boost productivity.
• ProShow Producer provides native support for RAW files from digital cameras.
• Use ProShow Producer's Projects mode to streamline workflow.
• ProShow Producer's refreshed user interface includes a soundtrack waveform, a new slide options dialog and a favorites pane.
• Get a close-up view of your work with a click of the mouse using the new Full Screen View.
• Recover moved or misplaced files from a show easily with the new Find Missing Files feature.
• Take complete control over show timing with the new timeline view.
• Seamlessly control a live presentation with custom keyboard controls.
• Show Relative Show Time in Audio Trimmer
• Display Time as Seconds in Timeline

Business Oriented Features

• Capture Frames feature allows you to output JPEG files of each slide for printing.
• Watermark all the slides in your show with one click.
• Include your personal branding information and logo on PC shows and DVD menus to promote your business.
• Copy Protect CDs and EXE slide shows from unauthorized copying.