Play from a DVD or a camcorder?

I have a movie that I created with my FCP and I need to show it to a large group of people. I have a 10'x14' screen and a projector but I'm wondering what the best quality/reliability medium is to show it. It is about 35 minutes long. I thought of showing it from a laptop but I'm worried about the movie stalling or having memory issues. I could also burn it to a DVD and play it from a DVD player or I could export the video back to the camcorder and plug camcorder (miniDV not HD) into the projector. Which is best? I also have a few clips that are kind of dark and I know that sometimes certian mediums darken the image so I don't want that either.

I agree; bring all three. Cardinal rule for a presenter... always have a plan B, plan C, etc. If Powerpoint's not working, have transparencies. If no transparencies, bring handouts.
My gut would be to burn a DVD and have it with you. Consider playing a "Print to Tape" off FCP as Plan A. Playing the DVD through your laptop (using Apple Remote, if you can!) would be plan B. If that barfs, DVD players can be found in most venues - plan C.
Plan D: some sort of soft-shoe dance.

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You can create Slideshows directly in Aperture; there are several predefined themes. Arrange the images in the Time Line, drag music from the Media Browser into the timeline, press the "export" button and render a movie (this step will take some time - be prepared to wait for an hour or longer, if the slideshow has many effects). See this section in the Aperture User Manual on how to create Slideshows (Creating Slideshow Presentations).
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Dusty DVD-burner Laser: I use a Cleaning DVD (no liquid but the one with brushes) from time to time.
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Haha I assumed being you were here that you were containing viewing all this HTML inside a Flash application (Projector or AIR). So this has literally been about directly loading HTML files into a browser and you thought the flash flowplayer was the issue about loading the HTML/Video/SWF off the DVD?
Sorry, I assumed you were using flash for this being the flash forum.. That's why I mentioned StageWebView (the way you'd display HTML pages inside a flash application). It wasn't making any sense as I've done this quite a bit with no issues.
Browsers treat the viewing of offline content poorly. They always have. IE is extremely suspicious about everything and anything, especially something that requires an activeX (flash) to load binary content. If it's just pictures and text IE is fine, but once you load a SWF you're requiring IE to load an activeX plugin that it cannot guarantee won't harm your system (even if it is flash, it needs to treat it agnostically).
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