DVD Studio Pro supports both analog and digital forms of copy protection. When using either form, the DVD Studio Pro project must be taken to an authoring facility so the copy protection can be enabled during the replication process.
Analog -- Macrovision
DVD Studio Pro supports 3 types of Macrovision copy protection
In each case Macrovision copy protection prevents the user from making a copy of the video to a device such as a VCR or other recording device via an analog signal such as an S-Video connection.
To enable Macrovision:
Digital -- CSS
DVD Studio Pro supports CSS or Content Scrambling System. This system prevents your DVD-Video from being copied to a hard drive or other media. CSS scrambles the video signal in a way which makes copies unusable.
To enable CSS:
Analog -- Macrovision
DVD Studio Pro supports 3 types of Macrovision copy protection
- Type 1 (Automatic Gain Control only)
- Type 2 (Automatic Gain Control + 2-line colorstripe)
- Type 3 (Automatic Gain Control + 4-line colorstripe)
In each case Macrovision copy protection prevents the user from making a copy of the video to a device such as a VCR or other recording device via an analog signal such as an S-Video connection.
To enable Macrovision:
- Click on a video track tile in the Graphical View.
- Choose the type of Macrovision copy protection you would like to enable
in the Property Inspector. See Figure 1. Each track needs to be set
independently.
Figure 1 Choosing Macrovision copy protection
Digital -- CSS
DVD Studio Pro supports CSS or Content Scrambling System. This system prevents your DVD-Video from being copied to a hard drive or other media. CSS scrambles the video signal in a way which makes copies unusable.
To enable CSS:
- Click in the grey area of the Graphical View to deselect all tiles.
- Choose On from the CSS pop-up menu in the General area of the Property
Inspector. See Figure 2. This setting is applied to the whole disc as
opposed to MacroVision which must be applied to each track.
Figure 2 Choosing CSS copy protection