Hello everyone...

I'm hoping I can get some assistance up front before I make mistakes.

So, I have created tons of dance shows, over many many years, using PowerDirector. So I am very PD litertate. However, I have always burned the final show directly to a blank DVD, and then used that master disk to burn a hundred more in my disk duplicator and voila, done! I have never created a show on a computer that does not have an internal disk burner.

So fast forward to this year, my new laptop, with NO dvd burner and, "well crap, now what?"

SPECS of SHOW: My files produced in PowerDirector 365, are long. Approximately 2 hours. Every year the show has been the same; They have numerous dance numbers, each with it's own chapter (marker), and then created with a menu that reflects those individual chapters. So the user can select on the main dvd screen, "play complete show" or pick and choose which individual dance to watch.

So, with the details all out of the way, my question is this: How do I burn a master copy of the entire show to an external drive that I can transfer to another computer, where I can then burn a DVD disk, that I can then use to burn copies in the disk duplicator? I want to assure that the version of the entire show that I burn to the external (portable) drive has all the elements of the production, including the complete menu, etc. I do have PD 365 on my desktop computer as well if that helps. So I literally have to just get the entire show master copy to it. I would prefer NOT to just load all the files onto the external and then have to import them into PD on the desktop and then create the master copy FROM the desktop pc. It's older and struggles to do anything quickly. The laptop is new, loaded, and fast, so to create the shows master on it would be preferable, if that makes sense.

I might be over thinking this and I appoligize if this is a stupid question with an obvious answer.

Thank you in advance to anyone that can help.

Tazz