Playing Huge VideoWave Project From Hard Drive

[dpdwa]

I am putting together a large Version 8 VideoWave project that will have lots of slides and maybe an hour or so of video, not to mention music. This project will be much too big to rip to a 4.7 GB DVD+R, which is the limit for my equipment. I want to play this large VideoWave project from my laptop to a projector, so I don't need the portability of a DVD. Is there any way that I can play a full screen/full audio version of the project from my laptop? In other words, I want to Rip or Burn the project to my hard drive and somehow click on that file and have it play for the family. Or is there a way to have it play from the VideoWave preview screen, having the preview screen take up the whole monitor?

 

Any suggestions? Thanks.

[bimicher]

I am putting together a large Version 8 VideoWave project that will have lots of slides and maybe an hour or so of video, not to mention music. This project will be much too big to rip to a 4.7 GB DVD+R, which is the limit for my equipment. I want to play this large VideoWave project from my laptop to a projector, so I don't need the portability of a DVD. Is there any way that I can play a full screen/full audio version of the project from my laptop? In other words, I want to Rip or Burn the project to my hard drive and somehow click on that file and have it play for the family. Or is there a way to have it play from the VideoWave preview screen, having the preview screen take up the whole monitor?

 

Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

You will have to render your Videowave project to an mpeg or avi file. If you have a 60 minute project, the avi file will be about 14GB in size. If you have the hard drive space, this will give you the best quality. Videowave does not give a full screen or even good quality preview

 

But if your project is that huge I would break it up into several half hour projects.

[sknis]

You will have to render your Videowave project to an mpeg or avi file. If you have a 60 minute project, the avi file will be about 14GB in size. If you have the hard drive space, this will give you the best quality. Videowave does not give a full screen or even good quality preview

 

But if your project is that huge I would break it up into several half hour projects.

 

Does V8 have the application to make an emulated drive? I no longer have it on my computer.

 

If so, you can go through the process if making an ISO file of the project, make an emulated drive (fake DVD player) and add that ISO file. You can then play that file with Cineplayer (or whatever is in V8). If you have a slower laptop, it will even play better than from a DVD disc.

 

Caution. I did this for my son's wedding and rented a projector that showed Windows and Cineplayer but when I played it, the video screen was black. Luckily I was at a location where they lent me another projector that had no trouble playing the video. All that to say try it before you get to where you need to show it.