My younger son is looking to program record childrens programs off
air with EyeTV, edit and save on DVD for future consumption by the
young fry of the family. To date he has no hardware and software but
is looking to do this via an iMac and EyeTV and is also talking of
the still to come AppleTV box. He lives in Burswood with very bad
reception, despite best aerial, in fact analog is just not viewable,
but digital comes in fine via a settop box.
I make no comment or criticism on the deeper issues of this but have
the following technical queries.
1. Is there a way of verifying that EyeTV will perform as well as
the settop box in this known poor reception area?
2. What format does EyeTV save to disk in with respect to importing
into iMovie, ie is there a need to convert to .dv first?
3. Having edited in iMovie, my own experience is that Toast is the
simplest way to convert and copy to DVD. iDVD is great if you want
to add menus and other glitz. In both cases the compute time to
convert to DVD to burn to disc is considerable. I recently produced
an iMovie/iDVD of a concert I had filmed, edited and adorned and iDVD
took about three hours to prepare about 80mins for burning (single
processor G5 1.8 so newer machines will certainly improve on this).
Any suggestions welcomed.
The good news is that this may mean another convert to the Mac family
of a case hardened PC user. His brother likewise, recently added an
iMac to his family of PCs.
Severin Crisp
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