"Cannot record due to copyright protection" VS7 to

[evansda2]

Have captured and edited DV in VS7, using method suggested by "Jonesgroup". Then rendered it as an avi file.

When I "export" it back to my Sony HC-20E, I just get a "Cannot record due to copyright protection" message. How frustrating! The DV was recorded on a different camera - a Sony HC-30E, but the manual for both says that neither camera records copyright signals to the DV tape.

Any ideas, as I now seem to be unable to record my avi file back to DV!!!

Thanks

David.

[Ken Berry]

You don't give us much information to work on, and most particularly what operating system you have on your computer. I mention this because the problem you have been experiencing has occurred in the past to people who are using either Windows 98 SE or Windows ME. If you fall into this category, then there are two possible explanations:

(1). The first is that you are using TI 1394 device drivers which require removal.

Remove the TI driver and use the Microsoft driver is my advice.

1. Connect your video camera to the computer, and make sure it is powered on.
2. Click the Start button, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. Double click the Add/Remove Programs icon.
3. Scroll down to locate the DVConnect or TI DVConnect program, highlight it, then click the Add/Remove button. Close the dialog after the removal process is complete.
4. Double click the System icon in Control Panel then select the Device Manager tab.
5. In the Sound/Video/Game Controllers list, highlight the device called 1394 DV Camcorder. Click the Remove button, then click OK at the warning prompt.
6. In the 1394 Bus Controller listing, highlight the 1394 card you use for capture (usually "Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller"), then click the Remove button. Click OK at the warning prompt.
7. Click Refresh in the device manager dialog. The New Hardware Found Wizard will appear. Click Next
8. Select Search for the Best Driver for Your Device (Recommended). Click Next.
9. Select CD ROM Drive. Insert the Windows 98SE CD into the CD ROM drive and click Next.
10. Windows will search the CD for the appropriate driver and list what it finds. After it has identified the appropriate driver, click Next to begin installation of the driver.

The latest MS 1394 device drivers are included in DirectX 8.1 or 9.0

(2) The second possible reason for your problem may be associated with any previous installation you might have made of the Video Wave program. Unfortunately, installations of various versions of VideoWave (up to an including version 6, I think) add to Windows a quite unnecessary DV Codec which can affect the performance of other OHCI-standard editing programs.

What's especially annoying is that the Codec is not even required by VideoWave if it is being run on an OHCI-standard FireWire card or port.

Here's what you do in Win 98SE to uninstall the Adaptec DVSoft Codec installed by MGI VideoWave:

1/ Go to the Start menu, and select Settings>Control Panel.
2/ In Control Panel, select Multimedia, then choose the Devices tab.
3/ Click on the + sign alongside Video Compression Codecs
4/ Click on DVSoft (TM), then click on the Properties button at bottom right.
This will bring up a new window, where there are two options - Settings and Remove
5/ Click on Settings and another windows appears saying, DVSoft(TM) Adaptec. When you see this, you know for sure that this is the one Codec you want to get rid of.
6/ Click OK, and this brings you back to the window with the two options - Settings and Remove.
7/ Select Remove, and get rid of this Codec.
8/ OK out of things, and then restart the PC.

After a restart, the OHCI DV side of things will hopefully be running normally - but just to make sure, follow steps 1-3 again, and see if the Codec has stayed removed.

[evansda2]

Thanks for getting back to me. Am at work, so not in front of my own computer to check the drivers, etc.

Hadn't posted any other details as wasn't optimistic about a solution!!

Am running windows XP home edition, KT7a motherboard with Athlon XP1700+, 1GB RAM. 80Gb hard drive, Videostudio 7.01.

What is Videowave?

Will look at the drivers that are installed when I get in...

David

[Ken Berry]

As I said in my post, my only experience with this problem has been with computers running 98SE or ME, not XP as you are. I personally had been running ME and had exactly your problem, but in my case it was the Video Wave codec. (Video Wave is another video editing program. I haven't seen the most recent versions, but I found the old version I used to use was not bad, until VS7, and now 8, came along.)

So unless your problem is with the Firewire interface driver (TI vs MS), which was also associated with 98SE or ME, I don't know of anything else to suggest. Do you have any other video editing program with an export function?

[Ken Berry]

Just an afterthought -- does the message you receive ONLY refer to copyright problems, or does it also say "... or your camera may not be designed for IN LINE recording' (or something to that effect). I used to get the full copyright/no recording function message. I don't know anything about the camera you used, but if you are in Europe, quite a number of the video cameras sold there have the sort of Recording we are talking about, disabled. That is another possibility.