Sharing a dvd studio pro project

I have a co-worker that recently move to the United States. He works independent for the same company that I am working. We both use Final Cut Studio for our work and it is easy if we both have the same projects with the same raw video so he can do a part and I do other. Now we have complicated because he can't send any project from dvd studio pro so I can open and work with it. DVD Studio Pro is different from final cut pro that you can send the project through e-mail and if the person that try to open it has the same raw video in the same folders that you have it (THE PROJECT CAN BE OPENED) this does not work wit DVD Studio Pro.

Welcome to the discussions.
It does work, but if you have any assets in DVDSP then the person receiving may have to re-link them when they open your file. I know it works because just about every example project I (and others) create is offered for download and you can open them and see how I have set things up. If they couldn't be opened then there would certainly be an issue in sending them around.
You need to make sure that the folder where you save the project file also contains the various folders of assets. If you do this, and save the project file from inside DVDSP to the correct place, then the links to the assets are saved as well and the project file will open without a fuss.
When sending DVDSP projects around the world it is also sensible to use 'dummy' assets and get the structure right using those before replacing them with full quality assets. I tend to use .pict images in tracks to represent footage, leave out the audio (unless it is small and important to the example) and send like that.

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