Moving a Photostory finished project from a desktop to my laptop

Stan-Yarrish wrote on 11/28/2023, 6:35 PM

I created a large photostory project in Photosory 2023 version on my Dell desktop computer, has over 200 photos.

I plan to use it at a party gathering this Sun Dec 3rd, to show on a big screen TV at a restaurant.

I copied the MWV file from my desktop onto a flash drive and plugged it into a Lenovo laptop for playback.

This computer has a 2022 version of photostory installed. But it will not open the file. I get error messages about

the file location can"t be found. Very frustrating and now I am in a time crunch. How do I get this photo story

file to transfer to the laptop so that I can use it this coming Sunday?

The desktop runs on windows 10. The laptop is either windows 10 or 11.

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browj2 wrote on 11/28/2023, 10:28 PM

@Stan-Yarrish

Hi,

MWV? I presume that you mean WMV?

I suggest that you go back into PhotoStory, File, Export, Video as MPEG-4, click on Display all, open the dropdown at the top, select whatever suits the parameters of your project, probably MP4 FullHD 1920x1080 and either 25p if you live in the UK or Europe, or 29.97p if in North America. Set the path and filename to somewhere on your computer's hard drive, normally somewhere under your documents. Review the file by double-clicking on it using Windows Explorer. It should open and play in whatever video player is installed on your computer, not in PhotoStory.

If good, copy the file to the flash drive. Plug it in to your laptop, double-click on the file using Windows Explorer. It should open and play in whatever video player is installed on the laptop, no need for PhotoStory. PhotoStory is a photo/video editing program to create videos, that is, the output. It is not intended to be used for playing back the output.

You should be able to plug the USB stick into any modern TV and open the file and play it on the TV.

John CB

emmrecs wrote on 11/29/2023, 3:25 AM

@Stan-Yarrish

In addition to the excellent advice that @browj2 has given you (and which you should follow carefully!), I suspect you transferred the .MWP file from your desktop to your laptop.

If so, that is the Photostory Project file. It contains NO photos, videos or audio but is simply a "database" which tells PS where to find all the content (on your desktop computer), when to "play" each individual item, for how long, with what effects etc., etc.

Its use on your laptop depends upon ALL those "source" files being separately transferred from your desktop to your laptop and being placed in EXACTLY the same name location. The fact that you did not know to do this would explain the error message about file location cannot be found.

HTH

Jeff
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