Will reinstalling videostudio 9.0 delete the video?

[khlohr]

I am working on a wedding video for a friend and find that videostudio 9.0 refuses to burn the dvd. When I click on burn, it shows the bar charts for a few seconds and then ejects the blank dvd and then says it burned the disc successfully. Of couse, it has not since only a few seconds have elapsed. Videostudio has also started to crash frequently. So, I think I want to uninstall and reinstall videostudio 9.0, and then try burning the dvd. I have spent many hours on the video and don't want to lose it. It is saved to MY VIDEOS in C drive but the file is only a few kilobits in size. I have created a video file and it rendered OK and plays back fine. Does anybody know if uninstalling and reinstalling videostudio 9.0 will result in my losing the video?
thanks

[Devil]

You risk absolutely nothing because you have a rendered copy. However, to be safe, make backup copies of all the files.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

You say

I have spent many hours on the video and don't want to lose it. It is saved to MY VIDEOS in C drive but the file is only a few kilobits in size. I have created a video file and it rendered OK and plays back fine.


What file are you talking about that is only a few Kb's?????????

What file has rendered ok????????????

[Devil]

I assumed he meant the vst (????) steering file that contains no video.

[Ken Berry]

klohr -- welcome to the forums! It sounds to me you need to look at our Tutorials section on the main index page of this Board. But essentially, you are not really aware of what you are doing! If you think using File > Save (or Save As) is saving your editing, you are only partially right. It is saving those edits in a small files known as the Project File which has the extension .vsp. But it really is only a small text file containing information about the project -- what video clips are included, where they are on the computer, and what edits have been done to them. A .vsp file is NOT a video file.

To actually *apply* your edits to actual video, when you have finished editing, you choose the SHARE function, and after that your choice depends on what you are intending to produce. If you want to convert your edited video clips into a single video which you can burn to a DVD, then you choose Share > Create Video File > DVD and this will produce a DVD compliant mpeg-2.

After you produce your new mpeg-2, you go to File > New Project. Don't worry about giving your new project a name. The objective is just to clear the timeline of your current project.

Once that is done, you select Share again, but this time Share > Create Disc > DVD. The burning module will open. Use the Add Media button at the top to insert your new mpeg-2 in the burning timeline. Then go to the middle of the three icons in the bottom left of the burning screen. There is a little box beside the words 'Do not convert compliant mpeg files'. Make sure that box is ticked (it usually is by default). That way, your already compliant mpeg file will not be re-encoded. Then build your menus and burn.

[sjj1805]

I think Ken has covered it all but you may be interested in this post:
What is a project file?