print to tape - copy inhibit problem.

Radiation wrote on 5/27/2003, 5:45 PM
Hi,

I have a Sony DCR-TRV60E Mini DV Camcorder

http://www.2020shops.dealtime.co.uk/xPF-Sony_DCR_TRV60E

3mins & 48 secs into printing to tape, my camcorder screen flashes this message "COPY INHIBIT"

Vegas still keeps running but my camcorder stops.

Anyone else ever had this problem, and if so, what did you do about it.

It seems to be saying that my vegas project is copyrighted and is unable to copy it, which is silly, cus it's a short family holiday project.

The sony hand book says "you cannot record software on your camcorder that contains copyright control signals for copyright protection of software etc, etc,"

Does Vegas have some kind of copyright protection option that i need to turn off.

Thanks for your help, it's driving me mad ;-)

Comments

jetdv wrote on 5/27/2003, 9:24 PM
Do a search for "copy inhibit"
Radiation wrote on 5/28/2003, 1:51 AM
Thanks for your reply bud :-)

However, i did a search before i posted my problem, also just done another serach and just cant seem to come up with any result that has any relivance to my particular problem.
jetdv wrote on 5/28/2003, 8:23 AM
OK, but this has been discussed before. I believe the answer was to mask out the top few lines of video (just put a black mask over the top 3, 4, 10? lines of video - still well outside the safe area). In a search I just found:

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=116277
which has this as the final reply:

Subject: RE: Defeating Copy Inhibit
Posted by: fongaboo (Ignore This User)
Date: 8/11/2002 10:54:51 AM

OK here are some interesting findings.. I did some experiments.. Took one of the DV-AVI files that was triggering the Copy Inhibit function in my camcorder when I print to tape, and I re-rendered once with the top 4 lines missing and then again with 1% brightness applied. Both were able to print to tape no problem. But then I tried rerendering in Vegas with nothing changed. That resultant file printed to tape no problem as well! Then I tried sending it through Batch Converter without any changes applied. The resultant file from that was not able to be recorded. Isn't that weird??


Other hits include:

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=102174


http://www.sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=110010

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=148817
Radiation wrote on 5/28/2003, 10:05 AM
Thanks bud for your time again,

I'll have to learn to to search in a better way, the searches i did, did not throw back the above results, it came back with loads of results, but not the ones i needed.

OK, if i open a avi file in video capture (print to tape) and then print to tape, it works fine, so i will render the file 1st and do it that way.

And please remember, some of us are not as experienced as others, and ocasionaly need a little guiding hand, to help us out.

Cheers bud :-)