Good news! I just completed my first DVD and it really looks good.
When I closed the DVD burning stage box it saved the project. That's good, too. Now I want to go back and fine tune it. How do I get it back to the DVD burn/edit stage with all of the chapters, titles, etc. intact the same way it was when I closed the box earlier after burning it to disc?
Thanks, guys.
How Do I Retrieve A Saved DVD File?
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Uh oh -- on re-reading your message a couple of times, I had the sinking feeling when you said "it" saved the project when you closed the burning module. I am afraid that that automatic save does not seem to mean much, or if it does, no one here knows what it means. 
When you close the burning module, you have to manually save the project (File > Save) and ignore the message that says it is saving the project. That seems only to be a temporary save which only lasts as long as you still have the main Video Studio program open. On the other hand, if you manually save the project, it really does save all the menu settings. Then, next time you open VS, you simply open the saved project, and go immediately to Share > Create Disc > DVD, and the burning module should open with all the video already inserted and the menu settings the same as they were.
When you close the burning module, you have to manually save the project (File > Save) and ignore the message that says it is saving the project. That seems only to be a temporary save which only lasts as long as you still have the main Video Studio program open. On the other hand, if you manually save the project, it really does save all the menu settings. Then, next time you open VS, you simply open the saved project, and go immediately to Share > Create Disc > DVD, and the burning module should open with all the video already inserted and the menu settings the same as they were.
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The only way you can do that is by importing the DVD into VS. You wll, however, lose quality doing that.
It is much better to back to your source files and fine tune there, then render to a video file instead of burning to DVD. That mpeg file would be easier to get into VS again if you wanted to make changes but I would still not recommend that.
Once you have a final cut and rendered a new video file from that. You can start a new project, enter the new video file into it and burn from there or use a DVD authoring program like DVD MovieFactory etc.
It is much better to back to your source files and fine tune there, then render to a video file instead of burning to DVD. That mpeg file would be easier to get into VS again if you wanted to make changes but I would still not recommend that.
Once you have a final cut and rendered a new video file from that. You can start a new project, enter the new video file into it and burn from there or use a DVD authoring program like DVD MovieFactory etc.
Well, that answers that!
It probably is a temporary save, which is lost once VS is closed.
I certainly don't want to lose quality by saving the DVD file so I will recreate it and then fine tune from there. It wasn't like it took hours to make the titles and chapters anyway. Nothing wrong with the first one but with so many fonts to choose from....
By the way, on page 134 of the manual there are the "Burning Options." I did not see the "Files to include on disc" option when I burned the disc. I was thinking about including an audio file on the disc as a bonus.
Also, the copyright option isn't the same as encrypting, is it?
It probably is a temporary save, which is lost once VS is closed.
I certainly don't want to lose quality by saving the DVD file so I will recreate it and then fine tune from there. It wasn't like it took hours to make the titles and chapters anyway. Nothing wrong with the first one but with so many fonts to choose from....
By the way, on page 134 of the manual there are the "Burning Options." I did not see the "Files to include on disc" option when I burned the disc. I was thinking about including an audio file on the disc as a bonus.
Also, the copyright option isn't the same as encrypting, is it?