Burn Tivo To Dvd With Windows Dvd Maker & Pavtube Tivo Converter

The 4th generation TiVo Premiere XL now records up to 150 hours of HD programming, which frees users from the issue of insufficient storage memory. However, you may still wanna convert tivo HD to burn tivo to DVD or copy TiVo to hard drive for enjoying the shows more freely on PC. In this guide I抎 like to introduce to you a more economical way to convert Tivo HD and burn to DVD, which costs you $35 only (the DVD burner is excluded, of course).

Software you抣l need: TiVo Desktop for the PC (freeware) , Pavtube Tivo Converter (shareware, $35.00) , Windows DVD Maker (freeware)



Part 1. Convert TiVo recordings to PC with TiVo Desktop
If you record a show on your TiVo box, you can easily play it back on your PC or laptop. I believe it is an everyday thing for most TiVo users. And there are instructions by TiVo抯 official site: http://www.tivo.com/mytivo/howto ... nsfer_shows_pc.html.

Part 2. Convert TiVo to MPEG DVD Movie Maker compatible formats with Pavtube Tivo Converter.
The Pavtube Tivo Converter is much more than a TiVo to DVD Converter. It convert TiVo fles to Aplle iPhone 4, iPad, PSP, Moto Droid, Nokia, Samsung galaxy s smart phones, Zune, Xbox 360, PS3 and popular formats like *.avi, *.mpg, *.vob, *.mkv, *.wmv, *.mov, *.ac3, etc and handles with TV recordings of other formats *.ts, *.tp, *.trp files.

You can Convert HD TiVo to DVD as simple or as complex as you want.
Step 1. Input Media Access Key.
Launch Pavtube Video Converter, Click on the 揙ption?button, switch to TiVo tab, and enter your Media Access Key. Click 揙K?to confirm.

Step 2: Import TiVo files for converting TiVo to DVD.
Now click 揂dd?to import all .tivo files, or you may drag and drop the *.tivo files to the window of TiVo to DVD Converter.

Step 3: Select an output format MPEG for burning TiVo to DVD in Windows DVD Maker.
Click on the pull down menu of 揊ormat?to select output format. If you do not want to loss any quality, please select Copy-> Directly Copy so that the TiVo Converter will decrypt the shows to *.mpg or *.ts files. Nowadays the shows are normally HD 1920*1080 videos, which is too good to burn on a standard DVD. My advice is, compressing the HD TiVo shows so as to fit DVD 5/ DVD 9.

I used to select Common Video-> MPEG-2 Video(*.mpg), and then click 揝ettings?button to adjust audio and video parameters. The following picture shows detailed settings:

Step 4: Start converting TiVo to burn to DVD.
Click 揅onvert?button and the TiVo converter will generate videos that are compatible with Windows DVD Maker. After conversion you can click the 揙pen?button next to output path to find converted recordings.

Additional tips-- edit the TiVo recordings to keep proper length and size.
As I said, you can make the TiVo to DVD conversion as simple or as complex as you want. To cut off black edges, trim out unwanted ads, add watermark, replace audio, you may click on 揈dit?button to enter editing window of TiVo to DVD Converter.

I. Cut unwanted black edges
Switch to Crop tab to cut unwanted edges. You can crop the video by adjusting the crop frame (drag the green dotted green square frame to circle the part you want to retain) or setting values (Left, Top, Width and Height) of crop area.

II. Trim out bothering commercial ads
Under 'Trim' tab you are allowed to cut out unwanted part of selected clip. To trim the video, simply type in desired time value in 慡tart?and 慐nd?box and click 慡et?button. Or you can click left square bracket and right square bracket to set start and end time when playing the video.

Part 3. Burning TiVo to DVD with Windows DVD Maker.

Step 1. Click the "Start" button and select "Windows DVD Maker" to run the program, then click the "Add items" button from the top menu and browse to the folder were the movies you want to burn are located. By default, they should be found in the "Videos" folder.
Step 2. Select the videos you want to burn and type the "Disc title". Also, you may select the order in which the movies will be saved on DVD. To do that, select a movie and press the "Up" or "Down" button to change its order.

Step 3. If you want to, you can click the "Options" button and set things like the burning speed, the aspect ratio, the video format or you can choose if the DVD will have a menu or not. After you finished making the settings you want, click the "OK" button and then "Next".

Step 4. At this step you can create a custom DVD menu or you can select a predefined one. To select a predefined menu, scroll the "Menu Styles" list and select the one you like most. You can customize it by pressing the "Customize Menu" button and making the settings you want. Also, you can change the menu text by clicking the "Menu text" button and typing the text you want for each button.

Step 5. When you have finished making all the customizations, click the "Burn" button.
First, Windows DVD Maker will encode the movie in the appropriate format and then it will burn it on DVD. Usually, the encoding process takes much more time than the burning so you have to patient.

If you are Mac user, download Pavtube Pavtube Tivo Converter for Mac and burn tivo to DVD with iDVD.