Screen Saver question

[LocalAustinBoy]

So, I've followed the instructions in Advanced Edit to save a movie as a screensaver file (wmv). But I can't see where in Windows 7 that I can tell it to use this file as its screen saver.
The path in Win 7 is Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Change screen saver. The Change screen saver window has no movie playing options.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Accolades]

Hi,

I just did a quick GOOGLE for 'play wmv as windows 7 screensaver'

http://www.tucows.com/preview/58322

http://avi-mpg-wmv-screensaver.findmysoft.com/

I have downloaded, installed and tested. YES it does work on Win 7. May have to read the fine print on shareware/registration.

This is one for XP

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

i have no idea what this has to do with VSX3? but...

[LocalAustinBoy]

Thanks, I'l check these out. The reason I inquired is because VSX3 has a feature that creates a screensaver. File > Export > Movie Screen Saver.

[Ron P.]

In the screen-saver drop-down menu look for uvScreenSaver, this is the file that allows the operating system to play the video (wmv) as a screensaver. I'm not sure about Win7, but in Vista and XP, all screensavers use the *.scr extension.

In VS>File>Export>Movie Screensaver, click on the Settings button. At the bottom of the dialog window that opens, it shows you the File name and path to it. You can also browse to a WMV file that you want to use as your screensaver.

[Accolades]

In the screen-saver drop-down menu look for uvScreenSaver, this is the file that allows the operating system to play the video (wmv) as a screensaver. I'm not sure about Win7, but in Vista and XP, all screensavers use the *.scr extension.

In VS>File>Export>Movie Screensaver, click on the Settings button. At the bottom of the dialog window that opens, it shows you the File name and path to it. You can also browse to a WMV file that you want to use as your screensaver.

Win 7 uses the .scr extension... under c:\windows... may have to see if this works...

Hmmm

U had a small mpg video I created earlier ~30sec and saved as a wmv file.

I was then able to export as a 'uvScreenSaver' file.

The image below seems to indicate it creates a link to the WMV file created earlier.



I think then you may be only do one off video screen saver save? as the name of the file uvScreenSaver cannot be changed?

A little limiting!!!

[sjj1805]

Step 1. Create a Video in WMV format and save it somewhere handy.
Step 2. Open VideoStudio X3
Step 3. Import the WMV file to your time line
Step 4. File | Export | Movie Screen Saver
Step 5. The standard Microsoft Windows Screen Saver selection box appears. Set any parameters such as wait period, On Resume Password Protect.
Step 6. Click the [OK] button.
Job completed.

[Accolades]

Step 1. Create a Video in WMV format and save it somewhere handy.
Step 2. Open VideoStudio X3
Step 3. Import the WMV file to your time line
Step 4. File | Export | Movie Screen Saver
Step 5. The standard Microsoft Windows Screen Saver selection box appears. Set any parameters such as wait period, On Resume Password Protect.
Step 6. Click the [OK] button.
Job completed.

Hi,

I followed thes instructions above.

In windows screensavers it does indeed offer a UvScreensaver.

If you go through the same process and want to create another screen saver using a differnt WMV file. It will overwrite the previous UvScreenSaver.?

[sjj1805]

Once you have an entry UvScreensaver on the (Windows) Screen Saver Selection screen, you can select the settings button which will allow you to change the currently selected WMV for another one.

[Accolades]

Once you have an entry UvScreensaver on the (Windows) Screen Saver Selection screen, you can select the settings button which will allow you to change the currently selected WMV for another one.

Agreed....

But the UvScreensaver is just a way to LINK to WMV files?

It does not actually create a screensaver.scr file?

[Ron P.]

No it does not, as the file uvScreensaver is a file with the *.scr extension, look at your screenshot Accolades. I've had other programs/utilities that done basically the same thing, using it to select what photos or a video to be your screensaver. There are some programs that will produce an scr file and let windows handle all the settings.

[Accolades]

No it does not, as the file uvScreensaver is a file with the *.scr extension, look at your screenshot Accolades. I've had other programs/utilities that done basically the same thing, using it to select what photos or a video to be your screensaver. There are some programs that will produce an scr file and let windows handle all the settings.

So if i copied that file to my windows directory and renamed it to bla.scr it would work?

Then create another that would generate UvScreensaver.scr and repeat the process??

What I would like to do is generate several screensavers (.scr) with the wmv files generated then save the result files into windows directory instead of using the UvScreensaver/properties and selecting different wmv files.

I hope this makes sense?

[Ron P.]

No it will not.

[sjj1805]

Once you have an entry UvScreensaver on the (Windows) Screen Saver Selection screen, you can select the settings button which will allow you to change the currently selected WMV for another one.

Agreed....

But the UvScreensaver is just a way to LINK to WMV files?

It does not actually create a screensaver.scr file?

it is in no way different to the screen saver built into windows for creating a slide show of a folder containing images