Audio-Visual News By Trish McAuslan APSNZ EFIAP/b FAPS AV-AAPS AV Co-ordinator for PSNZ
Which Application? Information for Both Windows and Mac Users I am still getting requests from people who find that once they have a problem with ProShow, there is no longer support to solve whatever issue they are having. Reluctantly people are coming to the conclusion that they will have to invest time and money to learn a replacement programme. The question is — which one?
Option 1: Photopia The producers say it “is the next generation of slideshow software and takes slideshow creation to all new heights. All new from the ground-up, Photopia was built using many of the ideas Photodex had developed for the next generation of ProShow.” This is subscription software — which means that you don’t own it but rather you pay a fee to use it — currently about $NZ13 a month or about $135 for the annual subscription. Some of our members are happy to do this and have found that the programme has similarities to ProShow which they are happy with.
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Option 2: PTE AV Studio 10 This version replaces an older programme called PicturesToExe. It is the programme used by most of the AV workers in Australia, South Africa and Britain. At the beginning of April this year the company released a version of the programme for Mac workers. I have started learning it on my Mac, using the tutorials originally created for the Windows users, without any problems. Recently John Hodgson EFIAP/b AV-AFIAP FAPS AV-FAPS ESFIAP Hon.FAP ran a workshop for AV beginners and he asked them all to download the trial version of PTE Studio 10.5. He said that several people had Macs and there really didn’t seem to be any significant differences between the Mac and PC versions. From a teaching point of view or from a group or club viewpoint there is an advantage in everyone using the same programme as they can help each other.
