DVD Production with Copy Protection at home.

I'm interested in investing in some sort of mass DVD production equipment. Like a burning tower or something like that but I'd like to encorporate some sort of copy protection into the mix.
Does anyone know anything about this kind of thing or can point me to a solution provider of some kind?
I'm looking to graduate from the one at a time ink jet printed system.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Paul,
Yeah as David says, you cannot get a system that will allow you to put copy protection on your discs. The process that allows the to occur is called replication. It involves a glass master that stamps discs with the data. However, for shorter runs, duplication is often used. Duplication uses lasers to burn pits in a dvd-r media. It does not support protection in the form of CSS (content scrambling system). However, if you are still interested in a larger volume DVD duplication system, check out the Bravo II from primera. There are many other options out there as well. Just do a google search. You may have a little difficulty finding duplicators that are mac compatible since a lot of them use disc juggler which is windows only software. However, there are still a number of good options out there. Good Luck!
--Justin S.

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Sorry, I should have been clearer. My iMac is not recognising the 2014 pressing of George Harrison's apple year CDs, I can't get them to play (let alone try & copy them). The CD is accepted in the drive, it reads the CD & then ejects it. I suspect that the CDs are copy protected, although I do have earlier (e.g. from 2004) copy controlled CDs that the iMac will play. Is there a known issue with iMacs not playing copy protected CDs?
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I have a small video recording business. I taped a ballet recital and will sell the videos to the parents. I would like to know if there is a way that I can copy protect these so they can not make copies of them.
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And as Sue has already pointed out, if any of us can easily download the software to rip a commercial DVD to our computers that have millions of industry dollars behind the copy protection techniques on them, what makes you think that your home produced DVDs would be any safer?
Usually the best thing to do is get in the mind set that you are providing a service (capturing a moment in time) and an initial product (that moment presented on a DVD with nice menus and such), but you are not a production house that makes their money off number of units moved. My guess is for something like a ballet recital, the parents are not all going to get together and buy a single copy and then make copies among themselves. Instead they will likely all buy their own copy and any additional copies they make would be sent to grandparents and things like that. And if you somehow made it uncopyable, then likely they would not come back to you to purchase additional copies but either not send a copy to Grandma or just dub a version to video tape.
In other words, I think in these small business situations, the initial buyers are likely to buy anyway and the subsequent copies wanted wouldn't be through you anyway. So you are basically trying to protect against something that isn't going to affect you anyway.
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Welcome to the forum.
As ATR states, PrE cannot create a DVD-Video with Copy Protection. No burned DVD-Video can have Copy Protection, as such, but only replicated DVD's, and PrE is not capable of producing such material, even if one is going to a replication house. That is not the issue here.
Now, are you providing the clients with DVD-Video (with the VIDEO_TS folder structure, to be played on a computer with DVD software, or from a set-top DVD player hooked to a TV), or are you providing DVD-Data discs, where you are just Copying the AV files to a DVD disc, for distribution? The discs would look the same, but have different folder structures burned onto them.
How are your clients trying to extract the files? With a DVD-Video, the media files will be in a VOB container, and those might need to be ripped from the DVD-Video, to be used. PrE can do that ripping, providing that the DVD-Video is 100% DVD-compatible. The VOB's created by PrE should be 100% DVD-compatible. Not all NLE (Non Linear Editor) programs CAN Import and work with VOB's. In those cases, other software is needed to rip the MPEG-2 DVD AV files from the VOB containers, to Import and edit those. This might mean an additional step for the clients, but that will depend on the software that they have access to, and might differ, client to client.
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Hey,
I recently created a DVD with Encore. Everything went perfect, the DVD played flawless on a standalone player and with Power DVD and Windows Media Player on a Windows PC.
But now a client reported, that the DVD does not play on a MAC using Apple's DVD player.
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>can not be any copy protection, right?
That is correct, you may not burn a DVD with copy protection
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-and the steps http://forums.adobe.com/thread/699278
Regions http://forums.adobe.com/thread/895223
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Copy protection problem

premeire elements has been working. Now I cann add media from a dvd beause elements indicates these dvd are copy protected but are not. Loads ok on another computer with premiere elements. Have reloaded program but this did not help.
Is this an adobe programs, or bad dvd drive or registry problem.
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johnadobe
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Further details from you will define the issue.
I wonder if you have a problem or if you are just misinterpreting what you are seeing.
Pending the necessary details from you, I will use Premiere Elements 12 Windows 7 64 bit in the following example.
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Video Importer, you will be greeted by the following dialog before the Video Importer is available for use
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It is vital that it cannot be copied by the client or I could lose a lot of money.
In the past this has never been a concern, but in this case it is very important.
What is the best way to prevent a client/people from copying your DVDs?
Is there anything I can do within DVD Studio Pro or is there anything the Replication house can do at the Glass-Mastering stage?
I'm sure this topic has been covered, but a quick search found nothing.
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Common problem but no easy answer. It's simply too easy to get around.
If you want to prevent finished master disks being copied in the same way commercial disks are then you will need to get them made at a duplication facility. Not cheap. You can't do it in DVD studio, it's to do with the disk burner.
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This can't stop copies being made but at least you will know where they came from. It also seems to make the person who's name is burnt in take more care.
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Hi folks--really, really hope someone can help me. This has got me beat. And I'm by no means sure it's a problem with my computer, but...
The facts:
1. I recently acquired a Panasonic DMR-ES20 DVD recorder, primarily to make DVD copies of a number of old and treasured videotapes. These are from broadcast, so copy protection isn't a factor.
2. I often use my Mac as a TV to watch DVDs and have never had the slightest problem with commercial DVDs.
3. I am (or was) using Roxio's Popcorn 2 program to make up backup copies of the DVDs I make.
4. I made about 20 DVDs without problem, and ALL work perfectly on the Imac, and ALL can be copied via Popcorn 2.
5. Then, SOMETHING CHANGED, I have no idea what--but now, each and every DVD I make with the Panasonic shows up on the Imac as follows:
"The TS folder appears to be damaged."
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7. I have reset the recorder to original factory settings. That didn't help.
8. I have used a disk lens cleaner on the Imac. That didn't help.
9. I have spoken with Applecare and (God help me) Panasonic. Both pronounced themselves baffled.
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2 GZ PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)
2 GZ PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)
2 GZ PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

The only time I have ever expierianced an issue like this is from doing extensive burning. The cause is from the storage of the cache files and some of the older TS folders even after you trashed them from your machine after you burned.
The only way I have been able to work around this is
First Repair Permissions as is submitted by Gulliver.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607640&#607640
I have also found that by running 3 freeware or shareware programs one right after the other and after the 3rd it will restart your computer all is well when I do it.
First run Macjanitor.
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take note when you run Cache out X and Onyx be careful to not delete your favorites in your browsers.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20070
A note of interest, I have had to do this after I have done a lot of copying to get rid of all the excesive junk that is left behind.
Give it a try.
Good Luck Don

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