At 9:18 PM -0800 11/25/02, James Asherman <jimash at optonline.net> wrote: >While You are around i am having another WAY obscure problem. >One client gives me SVHS tapes . I feed them thru a Sony media >converter into FCP and edit. >I then feed the edit back thru the media converter to another SVHS as an >edit master (luckily this is all to change real soon) >They take the edit master and have a receptionist dub it into a prosumer >DVD recorder . >The DVD recorder Gltches on the Transitions (dissolves flips etc.) and >shows an error of Copy Protect. ONLY ON TANSITIONS. the rest is fine. No >problem is apparent on the tape. Any thoughts? >Jim I'm no expert in this particular area, but it's probably the DVD recorder detecting what it thinks is Macrovision copy protection. All Macrovision is, is putting the video signal just out of spec, and maybe something in your transitions, or possibly the original VCR is causing the signal to go out of spec slightly. Darrin -- Darrin Cardani - dcardani at buena.com President, Buena Software, Inc. <http://www.buena.com/> Video, Image and Audio Processing Development