This has been a very busy year for me. Too, I took some time off to visit family in Hawaii on the island of Oahu. Needless to say, I haven’t spent a lot of time working or had a lot of time to work with ProShow this year. Still, every now and then, some inspiration keeps showing up and that results in the creation of an effect for ProShow. Along with that comes the requisite testing to find out what works as well what the final effect will look like. The result, Viewers, includes 6 effects for a total of 14 styles.
The TOURNIE effects (supplied for 3:2 and 4:3 image aspects; Vertical and Horizontal) were inspired by Tennis Tournament score keeping graphics used on TV. There are two different effects here, In one, the frame rotates horizontally and the other rotates vertically around the displayed image. As the frame sweeps across the image, it sweeps it away and leaves the next image in its place. This effect uses 2 images of the same aspect.
The NOTE-A-TALL effect (supplied for 2:3 and 3:4 image aspects) was inspired by previous effects I created. The portrait image is displayed at screen left with a caption located to the screen right. This effect uses the tilt function to move two framed panels (that are sections of the original image) across the screen. The two panels move along different paths. The caption moves INTO the panel as it moves to the right. It exits the panel as a different caption as the panel move left. The two image section panels recombine at the right to form the next image where the previous image had been. This effect uses 2 images of the same aspect.
ROUNDER and SQUARER are full screen effects. A circular section of the next image is swept into view over the initial image in Rounder. In Squarer, small squares come into view from a large square’s corners. When the small squares meet, they form the large square that shows a portion of the next image. In both cases, the next image portion is located at screen center. Then the remaining section of the initial image folds into the screen, from a vertical line located at screen center, to reveal the full extent of the next image. This effect uses 2 images of any aspect.
2By2-TO-TALL (supplied in 3:2 and 4:3) comes in 3 versions. Each version uses 4 wide images of the same aspect. In each version, the image that will display at full-size is shown in a 2×2 grid, framed at screen center. These images move out of the way to reveal the full-sized image within the framed region. The 2×2 grid then moves back over the displayed image and the next image is prepared for view. The next image that will display is shown in full color while the remaining images are shown in grayscale. In Version 1, the images pan off-screen the same way they panned on-screen. In Version 2, they pan off-screen the opposite of how they panned on-screen. In Version 3, the images move on-screen the same way they moved off-screen (using the tilt function). Versions 1 and 2 have more than 8 additional built-in variations of how the 2×2 grid images enter/leave the screen. Version 3 has more than 21 additional built-in variations. That’s over 40 possible variations for the 2By2-To-1 effect! Experiment and Have Fun!!!
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