Edit Eyetv recordings and burn to dvd

[dukebound85]

I have an eyetv hybrid and was converting vhs to digital of home movies (sad the tapes are deterorating after 15 years) and am curious how to get these recordings on a dvd

can imovie combine .eyetv files? for some reason, i cant seem to move the media into imovie

i would like to combine some files then export it to a dvd so i can play in a dvd player. any help would be awesome

 

[GregE]

You might want to check this out.

http://faq.elgato.com/index.php/faq/more/359

 

[AussieSusan]

Doing this right now with my old VHS tapes and my EyeTV Hybrid.

Once EyeTV has created the initial recording, use its Export function to output to the iMovie format: this will create a folder with a number of (approx 2GB) DV files in it.

In iMovie, you can then import (I use the 'move' rather the the 'copy' option to stop duplicating - it also is somewhat faster) and start your editing.

I then use iDVD to create my DVD from the edited result.

Works well for me, although it took me some time to get the hang of it, so I suggest that you try taking (say) a couple of minutes worth of video at first, go through the process and then do it again for the full tape.

Susan

 

[dukebound85]

Doing this right now with my old VHS tapes and my EyeTV Hybrid.

Once EyeTV has created the initial recording, use its Export function to output to the iMovie format: this will create a folder with a number of (approx 2GB) DV files in it.

In iMovie, you can then import (I use the 'move' rather the the 'copy' option to stop duplicating - it also is somewhat faster) and start your editing.

I then use iDVD to create my DVD from the edited result.

Works well for me, although it took me some time to get the hang of it, so I suggest that you try taking (say) a couple of minutes worth of video at first, go through the process and then do it again for the full tape.

Susan

thanks. however, the export button under file-> export is greyed out when i have the clip open. the clip is a .eyetv

how do you export?

thanks for the help!

 

[Queso]

You can use VisualHub to convert .eyetv files to a Video_TS folder, which you can then burn onto a disk using Toast or the open source Burn.

 

[dukebound85]

why oh why does it take so long to convert movies and clips and well everything lol