Best solution for editing and burning TiVo recordings to DVD

[Mars Rocket]

My wife's boss does a short segment on a local morning news show once per month. I have several of these shows recorded on my TiVoHD and now I'd like to copy the shows off and put the segments all together onto a DVD. This means I need to edit out the other 25 minutes of the show.

I tried this on a Mac using Roxio Toast v9 and it was a horrible experience - the UI is awful and the result was basically unusable - the audio and video were wildly out of sync and the menus never worked like they were supposed to. Further research turns up many others with complaints about doing just this thing with Toast.

So what other options do I have? I can do this under Mac OS X or Windows XP. I have TiVo Desktop Plus available to move the shows off the TiVo. What I need is something that will let me edit out just the part I want to keep and put it (and other clips) on a DVD with basic menu functions.

[Rocketslc]

I have done this very thing several times with VideoReDo. I just transfer the show from the Tivo to my PC (still using Win2K) Edit the clips and burn them as one dvd.
However I only have a SAS2 Tivo not high def so I don't know if that makes a difference


According to their site in now handles HD
http://www.videoredo.com/en/index.htm

I should also add I am using VideoReDo TVSuite

[Mars Rocket]

Thanks, I'll check it out - they have a trial version I can download tonight. The shows in question aren't in HD so that part wouldn't matter anyway.

[dwit]

If this is something you will be doing on a regular basis, then Vidoe Redo seems to be the most popularly recommended method on this forum to accomplish what you want. So if this is a one time thing, the trial version is probably perfect for you.

If you will be doing this only occasionally and if you have a version of Nero oem suite on you system or the cd, Nero Vision Express3 will also accomplish this. I occasionally use it to burn Tivo shows. The editing is a bit more laborious compared to Video Redo, but if you happen to have it, the end results are good.

I haven't noticed it recently, but occasioanlly the sound would be out of sync and running thru Direct Show Dump, first, would be necessary to prevent sync problems. HD shows will also need to be run thru DSD, first, also.

[Mars Rocket]

I used the trial version of VideoReDo TVSuite to make a DVD with 8 clips on it tonight and it went great. It was easy and fast, and the DVD itself works perfectly. The program is definitely on the simple end of DVD authoring, but it gets the job done and is exactly the level of program I was looking for.

I only anticipate doing this kind of thing twice a year or so, but we'll still probably buy the program just because it does what it's supposed to do with no fuss.

[mattack]

If someone knows of a way of doing this on a Mac without transcoding (the original poster said Toast was bad), that info would be great..

You can also use an external DVD recorder, preferably with a hard drive. It's actually not very difficult.

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=6526668#post6526668