Copying DVDs made with Corel VSPro4 without using VSPro4 ?

[Fed Up]

Greetings all.

I moved the Corel VideoStudio4 folders to another internal HD on my system as they were occupying too much space (69GB) on my "C" drive.

Although I checked that the contents of both folders were the same before deleting the copy on my "C" drive, I found on trying to open an existing project from the new drive location that all the files in the "14" folder were gone. Why would this happen?

Due to the size of the folder I deleted being too big for the Trash, I was not able to restore those files as they were deleted permanently. Is there some way I can recover those files that seem to be essential to opening and using my projects, which were in the "14" folder?

A related question: can I copy the DVDs I produced already of my project using some other program? I cannot see a way to do this in Corel VSPro4 other than reburning the whole project which of course takes hours for each DVD.

Finally, is there a way to have my chapter names appear on the opening screen of a DVD? The chapters appear, and function, but they are un-named despite my entering names and checking them when editing. (Stage 2 of the program)

Thanks in advance.

[LarryF]

Hi Fed Up,
I can answer only one of your questions. That would be how to create a video in VS X4 and use another program to burn subsequent copies. The method is:

- when in the Share function, Create Disk, once you have completed the project, with all your menus, you go to the final stage Output. There you click on the box for "Create Disk Image". This will create a .iso file on your hard drive, which can later be burned to more disks using your disk authoring program of choice. I used the program that came with my Blu-Ray drive, by CyberLink. It burned a DVD video in under 10 minutes, using 8x speed and verifying the disk. Your times may be different, depending on the size of the file and how fast you burn it.
I hope this answers this part of your questions satisfactorily.

Larry

[Fed Up]

Thank you for your reply.

Do you know if Corel WinDVD Pro 11 will burn viewable DVDs from the video files? (I did create the files fortunately)

[skier-hughes]

YOu could google for a free version of an "undelete" or recovery programme, just don't write anything to the drive until you have recovered the files.

Are you sure the files aren't there, is VS just telling you the files are missing cos it's looking in C: and you need to tell it to look in G: or wherever.

[Ken Berry]

Do you know if Corel WinDVD Pro 11 will burn viewable DVDs from the video files? (I did create the files fortunately)

I don't have WinDVD 11, but I am pretty sure it won't burn anything. It is, after all, a software *player*, not a burner.

You have to go to programs like Nero or Roxio which will have the capacity to burn an ISO file to a DVD. There is also a freeware program called ImgBurn which you can Google for...

[teknisyan]

Although I checked that the contents of both folders were the same before deleting the copy on my "C" drive, I found on trying to open an existing project from the new drive location that all the files in the "14" folder were gone. Why would this happen?

Due to the size of the folder I deleted being too big for the Trash, I was not able to restore those files as they were deleted permanently. Is there some way I can recover those files that seem to be essential to opening and using my projects, which were in the "14" folder?

For instances like this, I use GETDATABACK for FAT/NTFS to undelete/unformat the data lost on a drive and like what skier-hughes do not place any new files on the drive, since this will permanently remove the data written on the disc.

A related question: can I copy the DVDs I produced already of my project using some other program? I cannot see a way to do this in Corel VSPro4 other than reburning the whole project which of course takes hours for each DVD.

Yes, also what kind of COPY are referring? Copying the (Video_TS or Audito_TS) files of the DVD to your HD, create an ISO or RIP the DVD? You can use VS to rip a DVD... just follow the steps that LarryF gave you.

In anycase, there's a program that can do that for you.