Comments on Encore Slideshow

this module has a lot of potential, but it is really pretty hard to use.
the 99 slide limit is a pain. yes, you can work around it by making multiple slide shows, but it is a lot of trouble.
you cannot really synchronize music across these multiple slideshows and i cannot figure out a way to preview
multiple slide shows anyway.
synchronizing music with the slideshow is quite difficult. to really match music to slide show length requires use of an
external program, then you can import the music track back into encore. but that too is time consuming.
the performance of this program is odd. the program spends an awful lot of time "not responding." i am running
a pretty high end configuration too (3.0 quad core w 32 G).
i'm thinking a couple of man years engineering work and this thing could be brilliant. as it stands it is a low productivity
application.
hopefully this program will be upgraded soon.

having worked more w encore slideshow, i have to agree w you. it should just
be removed until it is made easier to use. i have not found that all the features
in encore slideshow really do exist in premier pro tho...it is hard to move pictures
around in PP and some of the effects are hard to use as well.
so, i don't really see that adobe has a useful slideshow product in cs5. if you
know of something that works well. i would love to know about it.

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