Re: ProShow Gold question
- From: ColinD <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 20:06:16 +1200
skidog@xxxxxxxx wrote:
I am confused here. You mean if i make a DVD -R it will not play from
a DVD hooked to a TV? That's the reason I bought ProShow.
Why make a .exe file? What do i do with that?
How do i make an ISO file?
If this information is on the forum, that's where I will go. I got
home tonight and this is the first place I looked.
Bob
Make a DVD, preferably a -R, to show on a TV via a DVD player. Make a
*.exe file to show on a computer. Executable files generally won't show
on a TV, and DVD's played on a computer will often be jerky and stuttery
because the computer can't read the DVD fast enough.
There are some issues with writing DVDs direct from proshow, resulting
in coasters, as you can find out from perusing the Proshow forum. The
work-around is to render the show to an ISO file on your hard drive,
then burn the ISO file to a DVD. To do this, choose Create/Create DVD,
set up the Output Format options in the left panel, then in the CD/DVD
Writer panel, in the Writer field, choose the 'ISO Image File' option.
An advantage here is you can burn additional DVDs from that file without
having to re-render the show.
Colin D.
I normally bottom post, so that's what I am doing here.
Most DVD players as hooked to a TV will play both +R or -R disks, those
that don't will usually play a -R disk. Please read my post above again,
it answers your questions. To recap, if you want a show to play on a
computer, make an executable file. (That's if you use a PC. If you use
a Mac, I can't help you much here, I don't know much about Macs).
Presuming you have a PC, an exe file plays better than does a video CD
or a DVD on a computer. Computer DVD drives don't seem to be able to
read the disks fast enough to give a smooth program, instead it will
display jerks and stutters and the sound will be like a damaged record.
On the other hand, exe files won't play on a DVD player through a TV.
To make an ISO file, which is actually an image of what would be a DVD
datafile, here are the instructions from above:
To do this, choose Create/Create DVD,
set up the Output Format options in the left panel, then in the CD/DVD
Writer panel, in the Writer field, choose the 'ISO Image File' option.
Then, later, in your burner program - Nero, Easy Creator, whatever you
use to burn DVDs, you write the ISO file to the DVD.
To answer your previous post, realize that pressed, i.e. bought DVDs,
which are white or clear to look at, and not bluish like burned disks,
have a higher contrast pattern than a burned disk, and some lasers as
used in DVD players cannot read the dye-based burned disks properly. Of
the DVD disks available, Verbatim seem to have the most success in this
situation. If your player is more than a couple years old, that will
most probably be the problem.
Colin D.
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