[Doug Robinson]

You guys are amazing–thank you.

Right now, I am in a tiny little neighborhood of hell that I didn’t expect I’d encounter–I can’t make a copy of the original (let’s call it the ‘master’ DVD). I want to send the DVD to an editor to work from, but it is my only copy.

I am a newbie at DVD ripping and burning. In the past 24 hours, I have bought 3 software programs and downloaded 3 free ones.

And I believe I’ve just discovered that the DVD is copy-protected. Why this original editor would copy-protect a test DVD I will never know. I don’t know how to determine what kind of copy protection he used either.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a program I can use to defeat copy protection, then losslessly rip or copy this DVD into my Intel Mac OS 10.6.8, and then burn the resulting DVD in Toast, one of my new acquisitions?

many, many thanks–I have been at this for going on 3 days now, and the deadline is right on top of me. I need to get the DVD out in Fed Ex today.

Doug

[Doug Robinson]

Thanks, Michael–

“We all work hard and would like to be compensated.”

This was part of my original post:

“I think I have a solution, and I am looking for someone who is open to being hired to fix it.” I totally agree that whoever fixes this should be paid. I don’t know anyone here and I couldn’t find that ‘jobs’ forum. I’ll look again tomorrow, thanks.

Doug

[Doug Robinson]

Just a quick update–I figured out how to load the file into iMovie (I know, I know–I’m just a musician!) and advance it one frame at a time.

The paintings move from left to right and right to left in the beginning, one movement per frame. At 00:28:08, the image does not advance and instead stay in the same place as 00:28:07. Then at 00:28:09, it resumes movement but from the correct spot in the timeline, producing the illusion of a stutter. This happens again about a second later. And that is all.