Seek interface suggestions for interactive Projector movie to be displayed on a digital projector

This is kind of a weird involved question and may not belong here, but I don't know where would be best to ask.
I'm putting together a tongue-in-cheek game show for a party. The graphics will be projected onto a projection screen via digital projector. At first, the plans were for everything to be done in PowerPoint, but I don't know it well, and want to do animations, game show sounds and animated screens with quiz questions in Director. I'm trying to decide whether my idea for an interface hidden from the audience will work. I'd prefer all the buttons that control the projector are not displayed to the audience. I'll be clicking these buttons in real time as the show progresses, displaying questions and playing sounds & graphics, etc.
Issue #1 is I won't have the laptop or the digital projector until the day before the event, which is in another state. The laptop doesn't have Director so everything needs to be finalized and exported as a Dir. Projector before I fly out.
Issue #2, I don't know anything about digital projectors and won't be able to practice until its too late to alter my Dir. Projector. (I'm making a Powerpoint show to fall back on.)
Here's what I was thinking, because I don't know if digital projectors have to show everything on the monitor, or can they be adjusted to display a partial screen?
http://oi57.tinypic.com/2ivlfg2.jpg
Ideally, the audience would see only an 800x600 stage - but my movie would be 800x700, with a bunch of buttons for all my sounds and animations in the bottom, visible only to me
Anybody had experience making something like this for a digital projector? Pointers, suggestions, advice appreciated!

I suggest you skip the on screen buttons and let director detect on keydown or if keyPressed events on the laptop keyboard instead of controlling the movie with mouse input. You can build some easy navigation, play sounds, videos or whatever for your game.

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sbobcat wrote:
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Suggestions for FiOS TV programming (or for any Verizon service/product/offering on the internet, telephone or TV) can be made on the 'Idea Exchange' section of the forum where it'll be noticed more by other Verizon community members as well as Verizon employees who can bring up individual ideas to the appropriate teams.
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Yes, an XSan system would perfectly fit the bill for what you want to do, but an XSAN is not a cheap solution. When it is all said and done, it will cost you tens of thousands of dollars.
The best, cheap solution would be to use Firewire drives. I would not duplicate a project onto three drives, because you will then always be trying to figure out which version is the most current. Instead, keep all of your project, capture scratch and render files on the firewire drives. Then move the drive to whichever computer you want to do the editing on.
Properly log & capture all your footage, then archive all your project files, because Firewire hard drives will fail over time, loosing all the info on the discs. I did say this was the cheap solution. "Cheap" does have its costs…

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