[MacDV] VCR to DVD Strategy

[Robert Rothgery]

Don't be so sure about Canopus being able to disable Macrovision.  I 
use Final Cut Pro and a Sony DSR-20 Deck as a media convertor for DVDs. 
  I have encountered Macrovision on a DVD I was legitimately attempting 
to duplicate.  The DSR-20 saw the Macrovision as evidenced by the 
recorder's assigned monitor.  However, Final Cut did not see 
Macrovision at all and made a clean recording.  However, when I tried 
to make a new DVD the burner would not complete the task and an attempt 
to record onto a DVCAM tape resulted in a recorder shut off just 7 
seconds into the recording.

Apparently later manufactured DV and DVD equipment senses Macrovision 
and shuts down the recording.  I was able to archive my DVD by putting 
it on SVHS by way of an old Panasonic AG-1980.



On Apr 11, 2006, at 9:49 AM, Dennis Fazio wrote:

>
> On Apr 10, 2006, at 10:31 PM, TM Buffalo wrote:
>
>> i am thinking of buying a canopus. about 250 with tax. are they worth
>> it?  How do they work  - just hook up the vcr to the canpous and then
>> hook up the canopus to your mac?
>
> Yes. The VCR connects to the Canopus via regular RCA video/audio 
> cables. The Canopus connects to your Mac via Firewire (audio and 
> video). It's supposed to be the best solution for quality and the 
> model I have will disable Macrovision if you want to extract a scene 
> or two from commercial tapes to use in your video. I think the newer 
> ones are firewire bus powered.
>
> If you have a digital video camera, you can use that to pass through 
> the VCR signal to your Mac.
>
> If you just want to make a straight copy of VCRs without any editing, 
> one of the new VCR to DVD copy machines might be the most economical 
> and easiest-to-operate choice.
>
> -- 
> Dennis Fazio
> dfz at mac.com
>
>
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