[scubaguy98]

I've created my first of a series of productions, have the files saved and successfully burned my 8.2 G's of data on a dvd(which took all night and then some btw). Now what? Can I delete the productions that are saved in my video? If I do delete the files can I go back to my final production in the future and use that to burn another disk if need be? Basically I would like to free up space but still have the option to revisit old data if I want to make another disk. Happy new year!

[REDWAGON]

I suggest you burn the productions you made to an ISO file and save it on your computer, as well as burning to disc. That way you can go back and burn as many copies using that ISO file and in "Creator Classic" program. I assume you used Videowave to make your productions and saved the file/s as DMSM files. If not, that's where you should be making and editing your productions and then going to MyDVD program to burn the DVD's if that's what you are doing.

Frank...

[missnz]

scubaguy98, on Jan 3 2007, 12:23 PM, said:

I've created my first of a series of productions, have the files saved and successfully burned my 8.2 G's of data on a dvd(which took all night and then some btw). Now what? Can I delete the productions that are saved in my video? If I do delete the files can I go back to my final production in the future and use that to burn another disk if need be? Basically I would like to free up space but still have the option to revisit old data if I want to make another disk. Happy new year!

Hello, if I understand your message, you have made DVD. Sounds like a video, which is working 100%. If that is the case, you can delete the project in your my videos folder, and in the future. If you want to, you can use this copy to copy this as long as it is not protected from copying, which it should not be as it is one of your own projects myself. I have been making DVDs video DVDs since 2004, and I am still making them. What I do is make a duplicate of the DVD after checking the DVD out for any fall is when playing in your computer as I do not know if any DVD players stand alone ones will play DVD-R or DVD-+R and a stand alone DVD player, but I could be wrong. As my DVD player is getting a few years old, and I don't think it will handle dual layer, which is what you have used by the sound of things hope this has helped Michelle

[scubaguy98]

REDWAGON, on Jan 3 2007, 01:04 PM, said:

I suggest you burn the productions you made to an ISO file and save it on your computer, as well as burning to disc. That way you can go back and burn as many copies using that ISO file and in "Creator Classic" program. I assume you used Videowave to make your productions and saved the file/s as DMSM files. If not, that's where you should be making and editing your productions and then going to MyDVD program to burn the DVD's if that's what you are doing.

Frank...

Thanks Frank. So basically if I understand right as long as the DMSM file is saved then all the productions can be deleted? I can then in the future go to my dvd pull up that particular DMSM file and make a copy?

missnz, on Jan 3 2007, 01:05 PM, said:

Hello, if I understand your message, you have made DVD. Sounds like a video, which is working 100%. If that is the case, you can delete the project in your my videos folder, and in the future. If you want to, you can use this copy to copy this as long as it is not protected from copying, which it should not be as it is one of your own projects myself. I have been making DVDs video DVDs since 2004, and I am still making them. What I do is make a duplicate of the DVD after checking the DVD out for any fall is when playing in your computer as I do not know if any DVD players stand alone ones will play DVD-R or DVD-+R and a stand alone DVD player, but I could be wrong. As my DVD player is getting a few years old, and I don't think it will handle dual layer, which is what you have used by the sound of things hope this has helped Michelle

Thanks Michelle. Your post was helpful too. Your saying just make another copy of the dvd? I thought about that too. My fear is that not knowing my cpu very well yet(just got it for Christmas), it will take just as long if not longer to load my dvd back onto my computer and then onto a new disk as it did to creat this one. We're talking like 12 hrs to burn 8.4 G's of stuff. Did I understand you right and would it take forever like it initially did? I have a shared drive.

[REDWAGON]

"So basically if I understand right as long as the DMSM file is saved then all the productions can be deleted? I can then in the future go to my dvd pull up that particular DMSM file and make a copy?"

I don't think that's what I said or at least that's not what you should do. When you save a Videowave production as a DMSM file and then go back and want to edit it or something, you better have all the same files on your computer in the same folders, as the dmsm file just looks at the places on the computer where you had all the files. If they are not there any more the program can't find then. Even if you changed folders where some of the files were originally, the program comes up with big question marks on all the slides and you have to "browse" in the program to find them again before you can open it. That could take a lot of time if they were scattered all over the place.

My suggestion is if you want to remove all the productions to ave some space or memory, use Creator Classic and burn a disc that has all the folders and files that you used to make the productions. Now if you delete the originals, you can always go back and replace those same folders and files. As others have said you can use your original DVD you made from the production and copy it, but depending on how many copies you want it's just much easier to use an ISO file on your hard drive to burn several.

Frank...

[myguggi]

scubaguy98, on Jan 3 2007, 07:25 PM, said:

Thanks Frank. So basically if I understand right as long as the DMSM file is saved then all the productions can be deleted? I can then in the future go to my dvd pull up that particular DMSM file and make a copy?


Thanks Michelle. Your post was helpful too. Your saying just make another copy of the dvd? I thought about that too. My fear is that not knowing my cpu very well yet(just got it for Christmas), it will take just as long if not longer to load my dvd back onto my computer and then onto a new disk as it did to creat this one. We're talking like 12 hrs to burn 8.4 G's of stuff. Did I understand you right and would it take forever like it initially did? I have a shared drive.

How long in time is that video you created? In what format are those 8.5GB of video you used. It should take not more then 30 minutes to burn a 4.7GB DVD. Most of the 12 hours was required to encode the video which usually takes 2-3 hours for 1 hour of source video. Using "share drives" for video work is not recommended especially not when burning DVDs. Any interuption in the data flow can create a ruined DVD.

This post has been edited by myguggi: 03 January 2007 - 08:39 PM