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What is your entire workflow? I know PD12 is the software.
VCR? It all starts with a decent VCR.
S-video?
Fenman is correct, it's a dirty signal mistakenly seen as Macrovision.
Other software, free, might ignore it and you can then use ANCIENT V12 for editing.
In some cases you'll only be able capture using Frame Time Base Correction to clean and rebuild the nasty signal.
Thats another thing altogether.
Happy New Year, Mista Fenman!
The VCR I'm using is an old Zenith style. I thought that what I had should work. My way of thinking, I have a vcr that will play the tapes and the PD12 kit hooks up to my vcr and my computer so push play push record and I should be on my way to recording a family vhs tape. At least thats what I thought.
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Commercial VHS tapes have a signal pattern inserted (between the frames I think) that players can detect as copyright protection. What has happened is the signal from your tape has some noise on it that has been interpreted as this protection.
Are you using PD to do the capture? If you have purchased a hardware converter to connect the player to your PC that should have come with it's own capture utility. If so I would suggest you try that as it may be more tolerant. Alternatively I think there are free third party programs that can be used which some of the more experienced forum members may be able to suggest.
I am using the usb capture device that came with the kit I bought. Its a VC500 USB capture kit. Granted the vhs unit I'm using is an old style but I thought that buying this system would be easy to use. I was under the impression all I had to do was connect the vcr to my pc, insert vhs tape, start playing the tape and the recording would be simple. Sure aint like trying to copy an old cassette for sure.
Ok so this is what I've done. I figured that since it was only recording so much of the tape that I would capture what I could, save that and start another capture process. By doing that I was able to record the whole vhs but now how can I splice those captured sections together to make one complete video that I can burn to a dvd.
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I purchased PD12 a while back and just started using it. I was looking for something that I thought would be easy to use for transferring VHS recordings to DVDs but I have run into some interesting situations. Maybe someone can help.
First I started caputuring a video. It ran for about 5 min and then I got a message asking if I wanted to save the captured file or not and behind that message was one that stated this video should not be copied due to copyright infringement. The video I was copying was one my son had made for us showing his house so it should not be copyrighted. And also, why would I only be able to capture about 5 min of a vido that was at least 30 min long. I don't understand. Is there a simple manual somewhere for novices to go by that would explain how to use PD12?
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