Beta-Max Movie, Trying to make a DVD

I have an old Sony Beta-Max video player/recorder. It must be 30 years old, but still works. The camera died. However I have some video that I would like to transfer to DVD. I am using iMovie 6.0.3, recording the video on my MBP. I am using the Elgato eye TV to do the recording. It has been recording for about 30 minutes and is showing a file size of 1.4 GB. I am recording it on an external drive that has about 90 GB of free space. The video is about 2 hours long total.
Any suggestions that anyone might have I am all ears.

EyeTV software (..there's plenty about it if you Google for it..) records in MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 format.
That's considerably compressed compared with normal DV, which is why the file sizes are so much smaller than the 13GB-per-hour of DV.
It doesn't matter that iMovie chops up recordings into 1GB segments. When you line up the segments next to each other in your Timeline at the bottom of the screen, the segments will play one after the other without any breaks.
You can generally set the duration of these segments before you start importing, by going to iMovie's Preferences, and - under the 'Import' tab - choosing whatever duration you want, e.g; 'Limit scene length to 10 minutes'.
Importing with EyeTV knocks down the quality a bit from the original Betamax (..I bought the old original massive Betamax camcorder last year, just for fun! [optical viewfinder; no means to rewind or review]..) but if you're happy with what it provides, then all's well. Otherwise, you could borrow a friend's miniDV or Digital-8 camcorder (..many of them, but not all, have a 'digital pass-through facility'..) and play the Betamax recording through the camcorder - or onto a tape in the digital camcorder - and import that into iMovie. That would give clearer results, but would give the larger 13GB/hr file sizes ..and I don't think you'd find a 2hr digital tape, so if you copied onto digital tape you'd have to do it in two parts.
So don't worry about iMovie splitting it into 1GB segments; you won't see the joins!

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