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Avoiding DLT with copy protection
by davegardner
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Jul 21, 2006 at 2:27:35 pm |
I found this old post indicating there is a way to use DVD-R in place of DLT even if needing copy protection. I'm pasting the contents of that post below. My question - to the poster or anyone else who knows - is does this apply to a general DVD drive or must you have an authoring drive and use CMF in order to do this. If you can build to hard drive with CMF formkat and then copy to a general drive, I'd love to know it, know how, and get any caveats. Who has done this? Thanks!
Name: Todd Beabout
Date: Jan 18, 2005 at 8:50:46 am
Subject: Re: DVD STUDIO PRO - not formatting due to 'copyright material' issues...
While I haven't seen the "copyright material" message before, I can help you a bit with the copy protection thing. We have a client that regularly requests copy protected DVD's. Here is the thing: the ONLY way for a disc to be copy protected is for it to be replicated/pressed at a facility with equiptment that you probably do not have. A burned DVD-R will NOT be copy protected no matter which boxes you check in the inspector. Those boxes basically turn on a "switch" in the repication process, and the replicator is told to add the CSS or Macrovision copy protection. CSS usually is farily inexpensive, but Macrovision costs more up front, and I believe there is a fee per copy (around $.15/each?). The only other thing that is quite different than burning a disc is that the replication facility will require a DLT tape with a DDP file (which DVDSP 3 can generate), or in some cases you can burn the DDP to a data DVD-R and some facilities can take that instead of the DLT tape. This is very fortunate, because if your facility does not have a DLT tape deck (mine doesn't), you still have a way to deliver a final DVD to a replication facility with copy protection enabled.
The DVDSP manual does not make any of this clear, and I only found out as a result of calling up the replication facilities, and finding someone who was actually involved in that process so that we could determine how to make it happen given our limitations. Hope this helps in some way!
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios
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