Capturing & Encoding Video on Mac from VHS source ????

[Nardimus]

I got my first mac this year and now im kind of bummed because of this video situation i'm in.

I'm trying to do the following:

I have a bunch of content on S-VHS tapes that im capturing through a DV converter through firewire into my mac using Final Cut Pro.

The only problem is Final Cut Pro only exports to Quicktime. So i have a 12 minute scene that ends up as a 600MB quicktime file.

I need MPEG-1 so i try to use Cleaner Pro 6.0 to encode it. Which will work fine but the only problem is the estimated time to completion is 7 hours!!!!

I am looking for a solution for mac where i can capture the video and export to MPEG-1 file right off the bat and not have to convert anything, cuz no way i'm waiting that long.

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Do any of you guys use Macs for similar projects? What do you use?

On PC i know theres tons of stuff that does it, but the only thing i can find for mac is maybe this thing:
http://www.adstech.com/products/USB_...?pid=USBAV-700

[Nardimus]

of course premiere 6.5 does it for WINDOWS ONLY.

man i thought macs were good for video, maybe just not web video unless you need only quicktime.

[Machete_]

Is it a legal version or warez?

http://www.creativecow.net/index.php?forumid=8

[Nardimus]

It's a legal version, 3.0.

[Machete_]

have you installed all the codec's?

[Digipimp]

You need to give Cleaner a shot or learn how to change what codec you are using to encode your video because quicktime has several different codecs that will increase and decrease your file size. For the size and amount of time you are talking about, you are encoding to DV, once it's in Final Cut Pro just save as and select a different codec and adjust the settings and you're good to go. Or export it from Final Cut and do the same.

[VideoJ]

This is a real old program, but still works so give it a try

http://mac.tucows.com/preview/207447.html