

The fair-use provision of copyright law is what permits photocopiers and VCRs, for example, to be sold and used freely. This provision of the DMCA, however, contradicts the long-established “fair use” provision of existing copyright law which legally allows duplication and modification of copyrighted materials for non-commercial purposes. In the US, we have a law called the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) which makes “circumvention of encryption” illegal.
Cinematize your video software#
Our software packaging and web site include the disclaimer that “Cinematize extracts from any DVDs including commercial DVDs decrypted with popular ripping tools.”
Cinematize your video how to#
Most of the recent Hollywood blockbusters are encrypted, however, and we cannot avoid addressing the issue of how to handle them. Also, some older commercial DVDs and European commercial DVDs are not encrypted at all. First of all, as I said before, many of our customers are using non-commercial DVDs such as those they created themselves or that are created for them by service bureaus. Now the question of commercial encrypted DVDs. We also wanted to better handle both the increasingly complex DVDs being produced by professionals as well as the discs produced by popular DVD recorders.
Cinematize your video pro#
We felt it was necessary to create an easy-to-use tool that allowed not only pros but also amateurs to easily extract audio and video clips off of their DVDs for reuse.Ĭinematize 2 and Cinematize 2 Pro evolved to meet the needs of customers who wanted increased control over the extraction process.

Doctors were using DVDs to record their operations. We saw churches using DVDs to capture their Sunday services. We saw people creating family videos on DVD. We also noticed that more and more people were using DVDs purely as a medium of storage, taking advantage of the high capacity to replace tapes and CDs. At that time, we noticed that there were already many one-to-one DVD copy tools but no single tool that allowed you to easily and quickly extract editable clips off of DVDs while keeping the original high quality. Naoko: Cinematize 2’s predecessor, Cinematize 1, was originally released in the summer of 2003. Also, how does the product work with commercial, encrypted DVDs? Geetesh: Tell us more about Cinematize and how it evolved.

In this conversation, Naoko discusses Miraizon’s DVD extraction program Cinematize, and how PowerPoint users can typically use Cinematize. Before Miraizon, she held various marketing and management positions at software companies in both Tokyo and Silicon Valley, California. Naoko Miyazaki is one of the founding members and the VP of Marketing and Sales at Miraizon.
