can I copy protect my dvd

Can I copy protect my own dvds?

No.

is there a way that doesn't involve pro duplication?

Nothing that would allow it to be playable in a standalone player.

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Hi

*DVD Copy-protect*

No there is non.

The most common solution is to put a loggo that stays on top of the full movie.
eg. Copyrighted to. Or made by etc.

Not even if You buy FinalCut Studio and get DVD-Studio Pro. You will not get this.
The Copy-protection in DVD-Studio Pro is just a flag set to allert DVD-producers
to make this in DVD-burning Companies.

There is such protections to Commercial materials and to astronomical costs.

And one can figure to what need, when there are no really secure Copy-protection.

One can only plead to respect the Copyrights

Yours Bengt W

Bengt Wärleby wrote:
.. *DVD Copy-protect*
No there is non.

umm.. well... sort-of .. 😉

http://sites.google.com/site/karstenschluter/diy-dvd-copy-protection
(which reminds to add the pics to that site .. on which SDcard did I ...? .. )

Oh You must be Magic.

You'll always find a way to do what nobody else would figure.

Hat of for You Karsten !

Yours very Bengt W

Bengt Wärleby wrote:
Oh You must be Magic.

not my idea, found that on some other sites.. tested it, worked, published! 🙂

Can I copy protect my own dvds?

No.

In the U.S. some studios are starting to not bother with trying to copy protect DVDs.

Just as Apple dropped its copy protection from iTunes songs.

I think this is a trend.

There are methods for creating copy protected DVDs in Standalone DVD towers and in Automated DVD Duplicators, but none work within the Mac OS.

The DVD towers that offer it are the most cost effective, charging you per master created not copies made. The Automated DVD solutions are priced per copy and get to be a bit more expensive, plus you need to commit to a quantity in a bundle of 100, 200, 500 or 1000 copies. Microboards makes it for standalone duplicators. Again though, windows required to drag and drop your VIDEO_TS file through the process.
http://www.mediasupply.com/micro-mcl-30-1.html

Primera, Microboards and Rimage make the per copy protection that work with Automation.
http://www.mediasupply.com/micro-vw-100-1.html
http://www.mediasupply.com/primeraptprotect.html

Microboards is telling me they are working on a Mac version, as they have a great new native Mac software suite, but seems like its a bit off.

The copy protection on these methods is not CSS, but its ideal for wedding videographers and producers of small productions. There's no major hacking movement going on to crack this protection, like there would be on CSS for something like a new IronMan release, so its pretty good. The idea is to keep the people who buy the copy of a wedding video from going out and making 20 copies for all their friends.

If anyone has any input on video protect for Mac single disc or duplicated disc protection let me know.

I hope that helps.

Following up my last response, Rimage's Native Mac client "DiscFlow" support their Video Protect product:
http://www.rimage.com/solutions/software-overview.html
Again this isn't for single disc producers, but for user of higher volume disc publishers.

The copy protection on these methods is not CSS, but its ideal for wedding videographers and producers of small productions.

These DVD's can be copied.

No one would pay for a wedding video with any form of "copy protection".

There is no such thing as DVD copy protection.

Consider putting a copyright notice on the disc and at the beginning of the movie, and trust people.

The "scratched discs" method is downright ghoulish, immoral and just plain stupid! You get paid to film, edit and give a disc to the customer. If the client decides to copy and give away extra copies does this really effect your bottom line? You're paid for a product when its delivered....period! You sacrifice all this when your disc wont play on their player (which, BTW there are several players which spit out these as incorrect format). You're ripping off the client here...just to save your dumb asss a couple of bucks of lost revenue.

Please be professional if you plan on calling yourself professional.

I hope that you replied to me in error.

I don't think I advocated the things that you talk about in your post.

I don't even know what a "scratched disc" is.

Sorry...in reply to Karsten 🙂