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Videonics PowerScript
W
P
ORKING WITH
ROJECTS
A PowerScript Project helps organize your work. A project can be as simple as creating a
text title for a video movie, or it might be as complex as creating many different compo-
nents for a full-scale production—such as an animated text title, scrolling film credits,
graphics of maps and diagrams, and so forth.
Saving Projects
When you begin work on a new project, you first create a new project file (see Warning,
below). You normally store (or, save) a project file on a PC Card. This allows you to open
the project file (by selecting it from the PC Card), modify the project (by making addi-
tions, changes, and deletions), then store the updated project file for future use.
Another way to prevent changes to existing projects and pages is to "lock" them. See
"Working with Files and Directories"beginning on page 126 for more information about
this function.
Using Project Names
When you store a project file on a PC Card, you must assign the project a name. The
name identifies the project.
Project names must conform to a computer-based, DOS naming convention. That is, the
name cannot contain more than 8 characters—so you need to be a little imaginative
coming up with easily recognizable names.
When you store a project on a PC Card, PowerScript automatically adds a period ( . ) and a
three-character file type ( PRJ ) to the name you provide. For example, if you name a
project BIRTHDAY , PowerScript stores it on the PC Card under the name BIRTH-
DAY.PRJ . You do not have to enter the PRJ file type extension when entering the project
name.
A project name must be unique on any given PC Card—you cannot have two projects
with the same name on the same PC Card.
A Project File is actually a
directory on a PC Card.
WARNING!
PowerScript saves your projects as you work. Although a Save option is avail-
able to save your work whenever you want, it is important to understand
that even if you do not use the Save option, PowerScript, nonetheless, saves
your work as you go. Therefore, when you want to experiment with changes
to an existing project without changing the original, make a copy of the
original and work only on the copy. This preserves the original project while
also allowing you to introduce whatever changes you might want to test. If,
after making changes to the copy you want to retain them, delete the origi-
nal project from the PC Card and rename the copy to the name of the origi-
nal. See "Copying an Existing Project"later in this section.
Tip
If you are working on a rather large and/or complex project, consider purchasing a new PC
Card for storing the project and all of the associated material that goes with it. For smaller, less
complex projects, you might want to store several different projects on the same PC Card, or
use PowerScript Communicator to store projects on a personal computer or a network.
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