Audio

ProShow plays background audio tracks one after the other by default. Playing two songs back to back is common. At the end of a song, there’s often a long fadeout. To eliminate this “dead time” in the music track, you need to overlap audio tracks. This causes the next song to start playing before the previous song has completely faded out. Doing this is easy.

ProShow lets you specify the start time for each track in terms of when it would start if the tracks were played one after the other. This is called the offset in the program, as shown in Figure 6.32.

Figure 6.32
Audio tracks can be offset from the previous track by any number of seconds, both forward and backward in time.

When this starting offset is 0, as it is by default, the audio track plays immediately when the previous track is complete. This number controls how many seconds to wait before starting the next music track. Initially, this wouldn’t seem to help us because we want the opposite of a starting delay. We want to move the start of the audio track backward in time—not forward.