Re: Alternatives to Wings Platnum/Proshow Producer

I work at a (relatively small) 5 screen independent theater. We show old short films and ads in-between them. A timeline based system just works best for working with video, images and music (music goes with the ads).
I am just trying to decrease the complexity and time it takes to replace an advertisement or a short film, so that I can keep the short films fresh, and so when new advertisers come on, it is easy to update the ads (and we have at least one ad which changes weekly).

Really the main reason I don't want to render it out has to do with the time it takes to render. Rendering out an HD 30 minute file, which has video files using all types of formats (I grab the shorts from the web), the rendering just ends up taking a lot of time.

The one nice thing about the ProShow Producer is if I have to render, I can make an EXE which doesn't render out the images (plays them as a slideshow), but only the videos, so that cuts the render time way down.