under the gun

masconomo · Post by **masconomo** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:55 am

I know.........don't wait til the last minute.........but..........I'm presenting a 15 minute movie/slideshow tonight (my first) and plan to use a laptop but the file is on a desktop. I'm still creating the video file and I'm hoping to burn a dvd without any hitches but as a backup I'm wondering what the best way might be to transfer this file from the desktop to the laptop.

I'm also thinking that it might be better overall to connect directly to the projector from the laptop than by dvd.

Thanks for any advice you can offer!

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:11 pm

Not quite sure what your asking here:

1. Simply connecting a laptop to a desktop to transfer files between the two computers.
2. Wanting to move the current project to the laptop for further processing.

For item 1 there are several ways to connect two computers together ranging from a cable joining the two together, to a wireless network or by using various devices such as a USB Memory stick. Another way is burn to a CD/DVD disc.

For item 2 apart from the obvious having the VideoStudio program present on both machines, you have to maintain the same directory structure containing where all of your project files are located.

masconomo · Post by **masconomo** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 12:53 pm

Thanks Steve!

I'm thinking of transfering the file with a usb cord between the two.

With the file created do I need still to download VS9 just to the laptop if I'm just using it to do the playback tonight?

What about an email option? The file is 836 MGs

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:57 pm

Here's a few Google hits about connecting the two together. How far you go into this depends upon if this is a one off or a regular thing.

I use a wireless network and so it is simply a case of plugging a USB wireless network adapter into a computer and I can then join it to my network.
At one time before all my children grew up and left home we had 5 computers connected together in our house.

Nowadays it comes in useful if I am repairing a friends computer - simply plug in the network adapter and away we go. The wireless network adapter also enables all computers connected to the home network to connect to the internet.

If you have simply created a video file then you only need to transfer that video file onto your laptop and probably play it with Windows Media Player. You could also in those circumstances consider a DVD RW disk so that it can be re-used when the video is no longer required.