How to capture a video on Mac

Description:

Here we introduce a free video capture application for Mac - FireRecord. It enables you to capture video from your FireWire enabled MPEG2 devices. What you need is this video capture application, a FireWire cable,  and a FireWire equipped box.

FireRecord Features:

• Create several single or recurring recording events
• Define unique storage locations for each event
• Record from multiple MPEG2 devices
• Automatically turn on devices that are off
• Automatically generate index files for file management
• Only show devices that support MPEG recording
• Supports multiple user-configurable preferences

How to Use FireRecord to Capture Video on Mac?

Step 1: Install FireRecord and connect your Mac to your set-top box using a Firewire cable. It would automatically detect the set-top box. And you can check it under Preference > Devices tab.

Step 2: Then you're able to either record an event immediately or schedule an event at a later time. Note that if your set-top box doesn’t support channel change request, please ensure the current channel is the one you want to record from.

After you define the recording time, you can see them in a table displaying start time, name, duration and channel.

Step 3: When it comes to the time, the record will start automatically. FireRecord supports 3 video formats: m2t (HDV Video File), ts (Video Transport Stream) or tp (Beyond TV Transport Stream). The recorded files will be very large, so you need enough space to save the video.

System Requirements

PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later

Tip for using the recorded videos on Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod etc.

If you want to play the recorded video on your iPad, iPhone, or iPad, iSkysoft Video Converter for Mac is what you need. With this video converter app, you can easily convert videos, movies and TV shows directly to iPad, iPod and iPhone (iPhone 5 supported) compatible formats. It also supports an array of of video formats like AVCHD (MTS/M2TS), MOD/TOD, MPEG/MPG, etc.  See all supported formats in the reference page of Video Converter for Mac.