Hello, I'd be grateful for any advice on the following: I've been given a VHS tape to put onto a DVD. It's of a christening from about 12 years ago, it's not a professional tape and I'm told it was just done by a friend of the family. It's from Morocco. It plays perfectly OK on a UK VCR and TV, good picture quality, etc. So far so good. I'm using a Canopus ADVC-55 into a Mac from the SCART of the VCR, never had a problem in the past - but it refuses to get any video (or audio) from this tape into the computer. Tried using a stand-alone DVD recorder - comes up with "content is copy-protected" (which I don't think it is) Tried using the RF out of the VCR into the TV and then taking the signal from the SCART of the TV - no luck. Tried 3 different VCRs, no luck. Tried a stand-alone hard-disk recorder instead of the computer- it records the signal but the picture is split in half, with a black horizontal line across the screen, the top half of the picture below the line and the bottom half above - like a frame slip on a film projector - (but a perfect picture otherwise!) I've heard that some tapes can fool the software into thinking Macrovision is present when it's not. I thought maybe it was a PAL / SECAM problem (tape is from pre-digital era) but the colour is fine. There seems to be no logic in any of this, but maybe someone can shed some light on it. Thank you.
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