Print to Tape error - 'Copy Inhibit'

eddydde wrote on 2/4/2004, 3:06 AM

I have a 52 minute holiday clip that renders OK and when sending it back to my Sony DV camera via firewire to keep as a master copy, after approx 32 minutes the recoding stops and the error message 'Copy Inhibit' appears on the camera's LCD monitor screen.

I tried a search in Vegas help and there was no reference to this error message there and none in my camera's 'error' messages.

Can someone suggest what may be the problem:

Faulty 'clip' or faulty DV 'tape'?

Eddydde

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 2/4/2004, 5:02 AM

Sounds like the tape. Did you try a different tape to see if ti still happens? Also make you your record protection tab is all the way over.

mcgeedo wrote on 2/4/2004, 6:56 AM

I was experimenting a bit with widescreen, and for a test captured some footage from a commercial DVD. The capture worked fine as a pass-through but if I had a tape in the passthrough cam, it said "copy inhibit." I suspect a copy protection code embedded in the DVD video stream. I didn't follow up on trying to figure it out since I don't, in my day-to-day work, copy commercial DVDs :-)

jetdv wrote on 2/4/2004, 7:06 AM

Do a search here for "copy inhibit" to find a workaround. Odds are you have some video noise generated by some effect that the camera is reading as copy protection.

farss wrote on 3/15/2005, 11:40 PM

Glad I found this 'old' topic!
Had the same thing happen to me today and it was very consistent.
Basically all I had on the T/L were clips straight from tape, no FXs and no cuts. First clip from first tape would always PTT OK but as soon as it got to the second clip which was from the second tape the DSR-11 would flash, in yellow "COPY INHIBIT" and drop out of record, Vegas kept feeding it video though. Second project was the same and did the same thing.
Very annoying as I'd get 38 minutes into PTT before it dropped out.
In both cases the problem was fixed by rendering to a new file and PTT from that. I'm suspecting that somehow the CI flag from the tape ended up in the second clip and Vegas sent this out to the deck. As we know Vegas doesn't clone metadata which would explain why rendering it out first cleared the problem.
Bob.

cbrillow wrote on 3/16/2005, 3:33 AM

I saw this for the first time recently, too, and read the previous threads that discussed video noise or timecode disruptions as being the suspected cause.

In my case, the DV avi files were sent to me on DVDs by a friend with whom I'm working on a project. He uses Premiere and encoded them with a Pinnacle hardware encoder of some type. I'd get as far as the color bars -- as soon as the program material starts, "Copy Inhibit."

I was able to render a no-change DV file from Vegas and then printed that to tape without problem. Strange....

craftech wrote on 3/17/2005, 8:29 AM

Sony cameras will do this if you have any footage taken from a commercial VHS tape, for example even if it is small. The way to go around it is to put something over the top of it. A title, or even a small dot that you don't notice.

John

Erk wrote on 3/17/2005, 9:10 AM

eddy,

I had this happen once or twice. Each time I got the "inhibit" message, it choked at the exact same spot on the timeline. Zooming in, I found a very noticeable spike of audio noise. I trimmed it, and everything printed OK.

Hope this helps,

Greg