Messages posted by Rixon

I have done a search as you suggested - I see there are MANY complaints of this...

Question: WHY do the makers of PD even bother to put this in in the first place? Is it thrust on them by the movie studio lawyers?

They are shooting themselves in the foot with over-active copy protection detection methods, and I have returned my version and lodged an official complaint with the powers that be here, as we have what is called the "Consumer Guarantees Act" which basically states, that any product for sale here must be fit for the purpose it is being sold for.

PD 7 or higher(I see the other versions also have this same problem) is NOT fit for the purpose it is being sold for, that being to backup your home movies, so I am now in discussions with the management of the store I bought it from, about having it removed as a product they can sell.

It is all very well to refuse to capture video if it actually has copy protection on it, but things have gone too far when home movies with no protection whatsoever on them are generating false-positives by the software.

Thanks for the pointers, but I am going back to my old Pinnacle PCI card and Studio software, which does not do this rubbish.

Oh, and one last thing: I DO think the "Bad language" is needed - it very accurately describes the frustration I am feeling over this whole issue, and frankly, I don't see those words as anything more then moderate...
I suspect many other members here feel the same in that respect...

Nobody has any idea how to fix this???

Hi all.

I am trying to backup my home movies using PD7, but ****** PD7 keeps stopping the recording - usually in the middle of a recording - moaning that the movie is copy-protected, which is UTTER ********.

These tapes are home movies recorded on a video camera.

This ALWAYS happens if there is either of the two of the following:

1) Any kind of blip in the video stability - something common as muck on old video-tape home movie cameras
2) Just about any transistion between the previous video segment, and the next one.

PD7 is seeing these blips and flicks in the video as some kind of piracy protection, so I would love to know how to turn this off - PD7 is basically useless as a method to backup your home movies if not, as every change in scene(where generally the camera was stopped, then started again on the next scene) is falsely detected by PD7 as some kind of bloody copy protection...

Anyone had this, and how do you fix it?

I know that some people try to copy movies illegally, but there is such a thing as too much security.

I know how Macrovision works, but it would be the height of stupidity, if I have to put a box of tricks in-line with the video signal, to remove signals in the VBR which PD7 THINKS are copy protection when they are not, just so I can use the product as it was designed to be used...

Any suggestions?

I have the same problem with my KWorld USB. Generally speaking, PD7 locks up trying to find it.
I normally have to unplug it, which totally crashes PD7, and MS pops up with a message that the program has died, and please tell MS about this. I don't bother.

Restart PD7, and try again. It usually picks it up on the 2nd attempt.
Not sure why, but it does this every single time I start PD7 for the first time.

PD7 installed on clean install of XP SP3, so it is not anything else in the background possible upsetting things.

Once I get it working, it seems to work OK for the most part, except for bloody PD7 always interrupting my recordings with messages that the movie is copy-protected, which is bollocks - see my other thread.