Why are my home movies coming up copyrighted?

Question

I have a bunch of home movies i made on 8mm tape and i am trying to digitize them using a tv tuner the came with my laptop but 2 mins into the recording i get this message.

"conversion stoped copyrighted content detected"

or some like that

The camera im using as an old sony handycam

the tuner is an HP express card.

Im using Nero 7 to convert the video. i have nero 8 but find it highly buggy with vista so went back to 7.

could it be the card? it seems to record TV signals just fine.

maybe some thing with the 8mm tapes is there a tab on them like on VHS that is preventing me from copying my home movies?

maybe its Nero ?

Could you recommend another conversion suite.

i have the trial of muvee on my pc but it doesn't recognize the card.

does windows movie maker capture video?

Answer 1

Well look my friend, You seem pretty professional, So I'm gonna answer you like a professional.

There is no Copyright limit (Not in Low) For magnetic tapes. You can copy a tape as much as you want. There is only a kind of pin next to the tape which prevents the tape from being recorded again. Which has nothing to do with your problem.

I think the problem is Nero. You can try capturing the video with Windows Movie Maker. If you would Open it, You'd see an option like: Capture a video from device. If you would click on that you can choose the receiving device which could be the tuner as you say.

And If it didn't work, The problem is definitely Vista, So you have to change the Platform to XP, Or buy a capture card and a VHS/Tape Player.

If you would change your platform to XP, It is possible to do what I said, Because XP Really doesn't care about Copyright and these other .....

If you like Vista, So you could buy the capture card and put the tape in VHS player, Connect the Player to Capture card ( With AV Wires), Let The player play, And capture the video with the capture card.

So I think It all depends on which way you like to go with.

Hope it helps.