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Resolving a YouTube Music Copyright Claim

ProStudio Software PLUS Music is licensed from artists around the world. Music creators, just as photographers, retain the copyright to the content they produce. These music tracks are licensed to companies or individuals for use in their productions. As a part of your PLUS subscription, ProStudio Software pays the royalties so you can use the music in your ProSelect created productions. If you upload a video...

Music timing with Exported Slideshow

Updated Article - Nov 2013 In ProSelect v2013r1 and newer, all slideshows are controlled by a Slideshow Style which controls which music group to play, slide and transition times, background and border colors or images as well as other effects and options including syncronizing your slideshows with your music. Syncing the slideshow to your music will adjust the slideshow slide and transition times within your specified allowable range so that ...

Slideshow Movie Export Crashes or Stops with an Error Number

Slideshow movie exporting has been progressively enhanced in ProSelect to use the latest technologies to reduce the time to export a finished movie with the latest versions being considerably faster to export - up to 20 times faster on Macs and 5-20 times fast on Windows machines. (On Windows, movies using the Ken Burn slideshows are slower to export but still much faster than when using Quicktime in the earlier versions of ProSelect). Each tech...

Exported Movie to a CD or DVD

With ProSelect you can create beautiful .mp4 movies stamped/watermarked, if you wish) for sale or distribution on CD or flash drives that people can watch on their computers or TV's. On Macs, ProSelect 2015r3 and newer uses OSX AVFoundation to create these movies at around 20x faster speeds than earlier versions of ProSelect. On Windows, ProSelect 2017r1 and newer, uses a new movie export utility which also provide much faster movie export spee...

Creating a Slideshow DVD

ProSelect 2013r1 and newer can create fully rendered .mp4 movie files that exactly match the slideshows that you play in ProSelect. Exported slideshow movies can be uploaded to Facebook, YouTube, web site blogs as well as being played on most computers and mobile devices. These movies can also be used to create a Hi-Def (HD) DVD which can be played on DVD players. Note: Versions of ProSelect prior to 2013r1 could produce very compact slideshow mo...

Exporting Slideshow movies for YouTube and Facebook

Updated Article - Nov 2013 In ProSelect v2013r1 and newer, you can export any slideshow that you setup in Working with Slideshows as a fully rendered .mp4 movie ready to be uploaded to Facebook, YouTube, your blog or sold to your clients. You can also setup an unlimited number of different styles to suit different client types or different exported slideshow movies (e.g. wedding, family, seniors etc.) With ProSelect Pro, you can design up to f...

Fading the sound at the end of the Exported Slideshow

Updated Article - Nov 2013 In ProSelect v2013r1 and newer, all slideshows are controlled by a Slideshow Style which controls which music group to play, slide and transition times, background and border colors or images as well as other effects and options including syncronizing your slideshows with your music. Syncing the slideshow to your music will adjust the slideshow slide and transition times within your specified allowable range so t...

Preventing slideshow movies being copied

Unfortunately you can't stop clients from copying the movie, unless you use an encrypting program (more below), however here are some options to think about: Charge more for the first copy and a lot less for extra ones to encourage them to buy more copies from you at the same time. If the slideshow is just to show the proofs, then add a copyright stamp or water mark to the slideshow images (ProSelect will do this for you) and/or produce it in a ...

Preventing clients from copying images in a movie

When you export Slideshow movie from ProSelect, all the images are compressed into one file so it's very difficult for people to get them out. This however does not stop them from pausing the slideshow and doing a "Print Screen" to get a hard copy or "Screen Grab" of an image. The best way to discourage this is to: Keep the size of the Slideshow small - e.g. less than 800 x 600 pixels Add a copyright stamp/watermark to the Slideshow. Both of t...

Exported Quicktime Movie plays at high speed

If you export a Quicktime slideshow movie from ProSelect, and it plays at high speed, then you will find that the exported movie is being played using Windows Media Player (WMP). That software seems to have a bug when trying to play Quicktime movies, so simply use the Quicktime Player to do this and the timing will be fine. If providing this movie to your clients, and Quicktime Player is not already installed on their computer (it is on Mac's b...

Error message while making Quicktime movie

If you get an the error message "An error occurred. Movie file not created" while creating a Quicktime movie then it means that Quicktime encountered a problem while building the movie. If this occurs, try the following: Turn off the music. If this fixes the error then it maybe that you are using an unsupported audio file type. At present, we know that .mp3 work and .acc and .ac2 don't appear to work. Note: these other audio f...

QuickTime Movie Problem in ProSelect 4.1

It has just been reported that there are some problems with creating Quicktime movies in ProSelect 4.1.x on some Windows platforms. It appears to be related to adding music. We are currently looking into this but we are not sure if it is related to a recently Quicktime update, or something in 4.1 (or a combination of both) because it does not seem to be happening in the previous version of ProSelect (4.0.8). If you are experiencing this pr...

This computer is not authorized to play...

If you have purchase music from an on-line music store such as iTunes, then there is a good chance that this music is protected and can only be played once it has been registered on a particular computer. Normally this is automatically done for the computer which you used to download the music. However, if you then copy the music to another computer (or try to play it across a network from another computer) then make sure that you regis...

QT slideshow movie timing

The slideshow timing for QT Movies is independent of the timing for the internal ProSelect slideshow. These are controlled in the Preferences -> Slideshow Tab while the QT movie timing is set in the File -> Export -> QuickTime Slideshow dialog. When making QT slideshow movies, you have more precise control of this timing so you can exactly match the movie length with your selected music. As such it should be possible to get the QT mov...

Combining Quicktime Movie Slideshows

You can make a combined slideshow movie from more one album or sets within the same album with different music for each part using ProSelect and Apple's Quicktime Pro. Here is what one client asked: "We need to do a "reflections" slide show for a bride & groom to be played at their reception. The kind where you have a set of images of the bride growing up, then the groom and then the two of them dating with some portraits...

Problems with QT Slideshow made with QT7 and/or iDVD

If you are experiencing problems with QT slideshow made with QT7 and/or iDVD.... For Mac Users QuickTime 7 is a complete re-write and as such seems to have a number of differences and bugs that were not present in QT6. iDVD will crash when you try to burn a DVD of a QuickTime movie made with ProSelect. The crash occurs immediately before iDVD starts encoding the video assets. For Windows Users Early versions of QuickTime 7 for ...

QT Movie - Maximizing the player window

After exporting and viewing a slideshow in the QuickTime format, you may find you can't maximize the player window for better viewing without getting blurred images and sometimes shakey transitions. And some QuickTime Players default to playing the movie "full screen" which creats this issue. One of QuickTime Player's "features" is that for best viewing, you should play the movie at the "actual" size (under...

Using multiple music tracks

You can include more than one music track in your QuickTime movie by selecting either a Music folder or an iTunes Playlist. Note: Music folders always starts with the first music track in the folder (when sorted alphabetically). To select a different track order change the prefix on the existing songs eg 01song1.mp3, 02song2.mp3 etc

Repeating a music track in a movie

Currently you can't have a a music track automatically repeat when you are creating a QuickTime slideshow movie. Suggestion: If you wish to do this, then make multiple copies of the music file, put them in the same folder and then select the folder as the music source.

Playing a Movie from CD

Playing a movie from a CD may skip with slower CD players or computers. It's always best to copy the movie back to your hard disk before playing it.