VS10+, Viewing completed projects

[jstrassb]

I recently purchased VS10+. After much use of this site to figure out how to complete the project, I now am unsuccessful at watching it. I burned a copy of my project to a DVD and created the disc image file with the understanding that I would be able to view at a later time. So far, I have had no joy viewing completed projects burned onto my laptop.

[BrianCee]

Bit confusing there --

"I burned a copy of my project to a DVD" - exactly what did you burn to a DVD - did you create a DVD compliant mpeg2 file first and burn that to DVD - or have you just burnt a .vsp file to a DVD ?? Did you follow the RECOMMENDED PROCEDURE for burning a DVD - Having created an mpeg2 file you should be able to watch that in windows media player if nothing else. perhaps you could tell us the exact procedure you followed. perhaps you could tell us the exact procedure you followed.


then :-

"and created the disc image file with the understanding that I would be able to view at a later time." - are you trying to view the .iso file - what application are you using to do that - VideoStudio can't do that - and at the moment I haven't got a programme that can actually play the .iso file


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[jstrassb]

I viewed the recommended procedures when creating my movie. I used the create video file function to take my .vsp file back to the original mpeg file. Next I used create disc. I was a little upset that I was unable to use the auto add chapter function with the file converted back to the mpeg format. VS tells me no chapters detected. I had to manually create each chapter. I imported multiple mpeg files, to create a movie with different chapters and submenus. Once the template was the way I desired, I continued to the final page, the disc burning page. I checked "create to disc" to burn my mpeg movie onto a DVD, and I also checked "create DVD folder" and "disc image" because according to my user's guide, it will allow me to "view the finished DVD file on the computer using a DVD-Video player software.
I too have not been able to find any program that will view the iso file that was created in my DVD folder and disc image. Yes I have the mpeg files on my computer, but they are not spliced together, that is what I did when I imported the mpegs together and placed the associated chapters on a template. I would like to view that movie/DVD in its entirety on my laptop if possible. At this time it looks like I will have to burn the project to another DVD disc. If I can not view my completed movie on my laptop, what is the point of creating the "DVD folder and disc image" function? Hopefully this better explains the methods I used to create my movie.

[sjj1805]

You do not have to create a DVD folder AND a disc image file.
It is a matter of preference some prefer to burn an iso (image) file but others - myself included - prefer to burn to a Hard Drive (DVD) folder.

The benefits of burning to a folder are that you have the completed DVD on your hard drive exactly as it will appear on a DVD disc and provided you are happy with your results you can now use suitable software to burn that hard drive folder to disc.

Ulead Burn now / Nero / CopyToDVD and several other similar programs.

Once you have the DVD on a hard drive folder you can view it on your computer as though you had placed the DVD in your DVD drive. You view it with software such as
PowerDVD / Nero Showtime / InterActual DVD player / Intervideo DVD Player and several other similar programs. You can even use Windows Media Player (though versions earlier than 10 require a suitable codec)

[BrianCee]

One other big benifit from creating DVD folders and/or an .iso file is that you can use either of them to burn multiple copies of your DVD without having to re-render the whole project again.

And just to add that the InterVideo DVD player Steve mentioned comes free with version 10 of VideoStudio - and that will play your DVD folders just as if you had put a DVD in your computer .