When I do a Digital Cut from my Avid, how can I remove copy protection?

[Michael Phillips]

Avid doesn’t add copy protection… must be a time base issue between the Avid output signal and the VHS recorder… Can you run it through a time base corrector?

[Mickey Grant]

I output Avid via Digital Cut to firewire to either a Dsr-11 or dsr-250. I never can make VHS dubs of my work. What can I do?

[Michael Phillips]

Hmmm…. that is a different issue unrelated to Avid – if you can successfully make an output to DV, then Avid is out of the loop and the issue lies between your DST-11 and the VHS machine. I don’t know what to say here unless your VHS machine is out of skew or needs a really good head cleaning.

[Mickey Grant]

The VHS machine is brand new and has an S input. I also get the message that my master tapes are copy protected when trying to input to external DVD recordersw.

[Mickey Grant]

The VHS machine is brand new and has an S input. I also get the message that my master tapes are copy protected when trying to input to external DVD recordersw.

[Matt]

Try adding the default color effect onto any clips which have copyguard.

This solved a similar problem for me recently when trying to output a timeline via firewire into a dsr-45. That same dsr45 was initially used to record that short sample of copyguarded footage from dvd (via s-video). During transfer, the dsr45 presented warnings, yet the footage looping thru the dsr-45 and into avid via firewire, captured nicely into the avid and looked fine in the Composer window/Timeline– as was well until I tried a digital cut.

A videwomixdown didn’t work– so I used a color effect and was successful.

[Keith Putnam]

Well, this seems to suggest that your DV deck is applying copy protection to your master tapes, doesn’t it? I would go through the deck’s manual or settings menu and look for anything related to copy protection and turn it off.