How did this happen??

[cdcox]

I made a dvd of all the family shorts that we did over the year of 2004. I then started a project that my wife wanted me to do for a christmas present and wanted to use one of the short clips from this previously made, working fine dvd. So I hooked up my canon GL2 to the dvd player and used it as a passthru to capture the short portion that I wanted, it captured fine. I then edited the Christmas video for my wife, now I need to personalize this video for 4 different families so I did this with my kids. I wanted to backup the video to my camera without a personilzation in the begining in case I need to redo it for someone. When I record it back to my GL2 it gets to the point of the video where I captured from the dvd of FAMILY UNCOPY PROTECTED VIDEO!! and the camera shuts off and says "copyright protected recording prohibited"???? What the .... happened.

Has anyone heard of using a camera as a pass thru and the camera puts some kind of signal on the video to say its copy protected even though the original is a HOME MOVIE?? I tried making a .avi and sending it back with the same results, I tried my Sony digital 8mm as the backup with the same results. I am doing this in premiere 6.0.

Any suggestions??

[daamon]

Hi cdcox,

Well, I can't help you with the cause of your problem, but I may have an alternative approach that will yield the results you want without the problem you're getting...

Use DVDShrink to select the clip(s) that you want from the already authored home DVD. This will effectively "chop out" the bits you want.

You can then use it / them in your authoring app like this:

Track 1: NewStart.mpg ; clip.mpg/vob ; NewEnd.mpg

Author as usual to produce the VOBs etc. in the VIDEO_TS folder.

I know that TMPGEnc DVD Author can do this. I would suspect that DVDLab can too. You don't say what you use...

Hope that helps. Good luck...