Import and Edit Tivo Recordings in Premiere Elements on Mac ( El Capitan)

This article just aims to offer an easy way to edit TiVo files with Adobe Premiere Elements in MPEG-2 format natively without a hassle. 

As a digital video recorder, TiVo can record TV videos based on people's interest and allow people to watch the recorded videos anytime they want, especially the release of "Season Pass" and "WishList" features which facilitate TiVo more widely used in people's daily life. 

The movies or TV shows recorded with TiVo are in an encrypted format protected by DRM, thus incompatible to many multi-media programs and editing software such as Premiere Elements you may want to use to view or edit the TiVo files. 

As a result, it is required to convert the TiVo files to MPEG format for editing on Premiere Elements. So, how to convert TiVo to MPEG at the fastest speed? 

 

To solve the TiVo to Premiere Elements incompatible issues, you'd better download and use Brorsoft Video Converter. With it , you can quickly and easily convert manifold video files like TiVo, MKV, AVCHD, HD, AVI, WMV, MOV etc to MPEG files. You could get wonderful output files and never worry about out of sync. 

Download the best TiVo to Premiere Elements converter: 

  (Note: Click here for OS X 10.5) 

How to make TiVo editable in Adobe Premiere Elements 

Step 1: Launch the TiVo HD Video Converter and press "Option" button. Switch to "TiVo" tab in Option window, and enter TiVo Media Access Key. Then, click the Add button to import TiVo recordings to the TiVo convert tool for converting. 

 

Step 2. Choose output format 

This video converter offers optimized format preset for Adobe Premiere. Just click “Format” menu firstly and then follow “Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas” to set MPG, MOV or WMV format. 

 

Tip: Before conversion, if you are not satisfied with the defaulted settings, you can adjust the parameters to meet your own demands, including audio&video bitrate, framrate, channels .etc. 

Step 3. Encode TiVo for Premiere Elements 

Click “Convert” button to start converting TiVo to MPEG-2(.mpg) for Premiere Elements. 

Once the conversion completes, you can click "Open" button to get the generated MPG files. Now, it is easy for you to import encoded videos to Premiere Elements 10/11/12/13/14 for editing. 

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