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VHS tape grayed out when digitally converted
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Apr 26, 2006, 01:17 PM
 
I have an old 1956 movie (The Mole People, if you must know) and when I ran it through a converter, I got a largely grayed or darkened copy in iMovie (6.0.1). Brief portions of ithis B&W movie came out fine, but most was too dark, and the dark/regular result seemed part of a pattern.
I've done VHS conversions before, not on commercial tapes, and never had this result.
Is there some sort of DRM for VHS??
     
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Apr 26, 2006, 02:50 PM
 
     
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Apr 26, 2006, 05:49 PM
 
Thanks for the info.
Does that mean I can't save my really old tape by making it into a personal dvd ?
     
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Apr 30, 2006, 02:22 PM
 
You'll need to get a device that eliminates macrovision if you really want to do it.
     
 
   
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