Exporting Pinnacle Studio 9 Files

I’ve developed a project on Pinnacle 9 on my laptop, but want to take the project over to my desktop where I have a DVD burner. My project files are on an external USB hard drive. I thought that I’d be able to plug the external hard drive in to the desktop, run the same version of Studio 9 on that machine, open the project and burn a disk. When I lunch the project it just crashes.

I attempted to use the exporter feature on the File menu. It looks like all the audio files are exported and a .dtl file is created. I don’t know what I .dtl is and apparently neither does pinnacle.

Any ideas?

Studio can't open the project on your desktop because the project just references the captured video.
I would just make an AVI file of the final project, and store it on your external hard drive. Then plug the external into your desktop and open that AVI file just like you would with captured video. Drag that into the project and burn from that.

If your making DVD menus, you'll have to do that on your desktop.

All the data files and the project file are on the external drive.

I've made DVD menus.

I got it to record a DVD data file to the external hard drive. So far it's about 4 hours into it, it's about half way done. I think it's a problem solved.

That said I don't think I'm going to start another project with Pinnacle. It's been OK for 5 minute clips, but seems to fall a part when the project grows.

Thanks for the ideas.

I've used studio 8 and 9 quite a bit. It works great when it works. It has also seemed to me the bigger the project the more problems. I use (when I actually find time to edit) Pinnacle Liquid Edition now because of that.

The write DVD video files to hard drive solution worked. All I had to do was copy them to the external drive, then haul that drive over the desk top then burn the files on the DVD.

Crisis over.

Another thing I have found with Studio Plus 9 is that if you edit one long clip instead of a bunch of 2-5 minute clip together it helps a lot. I learned this the hard way. Now I will only capture video in one large file and edit it down from there. When I tried to work on a bunch of little files I was crashing constantly even using a high end Xeon server for rendering. Hopefully the new version 10 fixed that issue.