Seeking help in creating video clips

[ZonaZebra]

During the past season I recorded several clips of plays that I thought would be good for teaching new officials. I recorded them on my Dish DVR as I watched various games. I am finally getting around to download them but have found that it isn't as easy as I thought. I figured I could connect my DVR to a DVD and burn them on a disc. Found out that I am either doing something wrong or that this method is not workable. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[Freddy]

Try this: How to Transfer Video From a Dish DVR to an External Hard Drive | Science - Opposing Views
Though I've never been able to pull off what you're trying to do with DISH. DirecTV, I think, is the service that makes you buy a program from them to download video you've DVR'ed. I tried what that link above suggests and never was able to do it. Might be a separate unit you need to buy for DISH also, not sure.
Interested in any other responses of successes.

[Altor]

I first encountered this when I tried to copy something from DVD to VHS many years ago. Content providers can insert a signal into the video feed that tells recording devices that the video may not be duplicated.

[justacoach]

Play the clip on your TV. Shoot the TV screen with your smartphone camera... edit as needed. Your phone may have 2 different camera resolutions on front vs back

[ZonaZebra]

I plan on trying these out. Thanks

[ZonaZebra]

Originally Posted by justacoach

Play the clip on your TV. Shoot the TV screen with your smartphone camera... edit as needed. Your phone may have 2 different camera resolutions on front vs back

Thanks for the suggestion as I never thought about doing this. All my other attempts failed but this worked well. I actually "shot" the TV screen with my laptop which allowed me to load it directly into my Movie Maker editing program. Was able to create the clips in a relatively short amount of time and the quality was much better than what I had anticipated.

In addition, Camron is correct about the external hard drive option. Dish encrypts their recordings so this didn't work.

Thanks again for all the suggestions.

[Raymond]

This is the slow season of the forum, so feel free to post some of those clips so we can talk about plays.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Altor

I first encountered this when I tried to copy something from DVD to VHS many years ago. Content providers can insert a signal into the video feed that tells recording devices that the video may not be duplicated.

It was called MacroVision. It is still around, but since so few people copy to VHS (who would want to), it has almost been forgotten about. It was easily defeated by inserting a device in the connection between the two machines. The same device also could be used to improve the picture on marginal videos too....which made the device legal even if some specific uses of it were not.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Freddy

Try this: How to Transfer Video From a Dish DVR to an External Hard Drive | Science - Opposing Views
Though I've never been able to pull off what you're trying to do with DISH. DirecTV, I think, is the service that makes you buy a program from them to download video you've DVR'ed. I tried what that link above suggests and never was able to do it. Might be a separate unit you need to buy for DISH also, not sure.
Interested in any other responses of successes.

Unless Dish has changed the way it works, the videos copied to the external hard drive are not in a form readable by your PC. They're encrypted such that they can only be played back on the DVR it was recorded from or another one activated on the same account. It is only intended to be able to increase the capacity of the DVR or move files between two dish network systems on your account.