DV Camera Copyright Protection?

herbray · Post by **herbray** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:42 pm

Howdy - -

Last night, I was attempting to transfer video from a Canon ZR to my Win98SE computer using Ulead VideoStudio 7.0 SE. It gave me an error message stating that the source was copyright protected; however, the source is nothing more than footage shot with the self-same camera.

Anybody know what gives?

- - Herb

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 8:58 pm

I used to have this problem when my old computer used Windows ME, but it was also common with people using 98SE. It was caused by having a Texas Instruments firewire driver (TI 1394 device driver) instead of a Microsoft one. So first you should check if you have a TI driver listed Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager (I think it is much the same in 98SE). And get back to us if you have and I will tell you how to change it. I am not at home at the moment, but will be in a few hours and will be able to post a longer message then.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:11 pm

In the capture module, select "Device Control" and select the MS device rather than the TI one.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:25 pm

... if indeed there are two drivers there. Sometimes, the TI driver gets substituted when you have added a Firewire card and it came with a driver CD or for some other reason (e.g. inserted with software installed with other software for your digital video camera, connected via Firewire).