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miracle-whip
16th June 2003, 19:23
I was working on a project in Adobe Premiere and I needed some footage from TMNT 2. I outputed the video from the VCR to a Sony camcorder which converted to DV. I captured the video directly, not going VHS-to-DVtape then DVtape-to-Premiere. Everything seemed great. The video looked fine going in, previewing, editing, and everything else. Only when I tried to output the project back to VHS when I noticed that the TMNT 2 scenes were going funky on me with macrovision. I do have a macrovision blocking box so the project was not ruined but it was a pain to work with. Now I think that macrovision, along with closed captioning and sync pulses, hides in the extra lines of the 525 or so lines of video. Correct me if I'm wrong on any of that. So I was wondering if there was any way to remove macrovision from an avi file without having to reencode video. But this is kind of confusing to me because DV only has 480 lines of video. I'm assuming it's not all video since I had macrovision, but again I could be wrong.

To close, is my story about macrovision in the video correct and is there a way to remove macrovision internaly/digitally rather than through analog/external methods?

Miracle-whip

FredThompson
17th June 2003, 16:53
Macrovision isn't "hidden" as you describe. It's done by messing with the sync signal.

http://www.repairfaq.org/filipg/LINK/F_MacroVision.html