Removing Macrovision from AVI

[jfebus]

HI All,

I just captured several small clips, using my SOny Camcorder as a Analog->Digital conveter, to my PC in AVI format. Is there a way that I can remove the Macrovision protection from those clips when trying to deploy my proyect to a tape?

Is there is another way to get part of a dvd to an unprotected AVI please let me know.

Regards,

Jose

[ironwood321]

If you have successfully captured your clips. They will contain no macro vision. Macro vision is in the upper lines of a video signal. i.e. a Pal captured signal is 768x576 but a PAL TV signal is 625(4/3)* 625. The same is true of NTSC.
You captures might not be a very good quality if your captured from a macro vision source. i.e. pulsing and varied brightness.

To remove a macro vision signal you have to either build a £20 PIC based remover or borrow an old Time Based Corrector or Frame store. Most of these TBC might be going cheap as everyone's switching to digital. New S-VHS videos by JVC can be bought with built in TBC

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: ironwood321 on 2001-11-04 13:30:37 ]</font>

[jfebus]

Hi IronWood,

In fact ,i am not sure if they have MacroVision exactly but they do have a copy protection. When I export the project to my camera tape all I got is flashing frames ( one right and one blank).

Regards,

Jose

[ironwood321]

I'm not to sure on this one if your exporting via digital ie DV has your camera been enabled. UK digital DV camera require enabling to enable you to record footage.

Also how are you exporting your footage to your machine?

[pdmath]

My only experience went as follows: I was able to capture DVD footage as you have...using my camcorder as a convertor. In Adobe Premiere, I would play back the avi's and they appreared to play back fine until I pressed record on the camera...the camera wouldn't record and gave me a screen on the viewfinder that said something like "copy inhibited".

In Premiere, I applied a color filter but didn't do any actual adjustment to the picture. I rendered out a new avi file using this 0 filter. Then imported it to Premiere and it played and recorded just fine to the camera. The only bad thing is that it takes some time on my computer to do the rendering.

You might try a little sample on yours to see if it works.