DVD Ripper for Mac OS Users : DVD Ripper

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Want to convert your DVD movies for iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Zune, PSP and a lot more mobile devices on Mac operation system? Wondershare DVD Ripper for Mac is a great solution for Mac OS users who want to convert their DVD to almost all video formats for most popular mobile devices, complete with options to select DVD audio track and subtitle, crop DVD video, trim DVD length, and set video effects and so on. To rip a DVD movie, you can download Wondershare DVD Ripper for Mac and follow the steps below:

Step1.Import DVD Movies





Click the Load DVD button, select the folder of your DVD movie, and click OK. If the movie is on your disc drive, you can just select the drive and click OK. Or click the Load IFO button, open the folder of your DVD movie, and you will find two folders in it: AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. Open the VIDEO_TS folder, select all the IFO files, and then click OK. After the movie is loaded, you can see all the chapters and titles in it, and then you can check the ones you want to convert. If you want to convert the whole movie, you can just keep all the titles or chapters checked.

Step 2: Output Settings





After your DVD movie is loaded, you can start to set output settings:

1. Select an output format from the Format drop-down list. Just select an format according to the device you want to put

2. Click the Settings button to set encoding settings including video resolution, frame rate, bit rate and video encoder, audio encoding settings including sample rate, channel, bit rate and audio encoder.

3. Name each title/chapter in the Output Filename field, and select the subtitle and audio track for the titles/chapters.

Note: You can check the “Merger into one file” option to join all the selected DVD titles/chapters into one file instead of creating a separated file for each title/chapter.

Step 3: Click the Start button to start the conversion. And all you need to do now is to wait for the conversion to be finished. The remaining time will be shown on conversion window for your reference.

Tip 1: Trim Movie





If you just want to convert a clip from your DVD movie, you can click the Trim icon to capture a clip. In the Trim window, you can trim the length of the current title/chapter by either dragging the Start Time and End Time sliders or setting the time parameters in each corresponding field.

Tip 2: Crop Video





If your DVD video has black sides, you can use this Crop function to remove them. Click the Crop icon to open the Crop window, and set the video crop area by dragging the crop frame or setting the four crop parameters (Top, Bottom, Left and Right).

Tip 3: Movie Effect

If you want to change the original video effect, you can click the Effect icon to set the video brightness, contrast, saturation, and even audio volume. You can also choose to apply a special effect to your movie video from the available effects including Gray, Emboss and Negative.

Mac DVD Ripper software

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This step-by-step guide will show you how to use Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac to rip general DVD (copy-protected included) on Mac OS X (Leopard Supported). It will include two parts:

1. How to rip DVD to MP4, MOV, AVI, MPEG, 3GP, FLV, M4V, MP3, AAC, APE on Mac OS X
2. How to edit, crop, trim, join DVD clips on Mac OS X


What you need is Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac; you can free download it from here:

http://www.dvd-ripper-mac.com/dvd-ripper-mac.htm

Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac key features:
Supported Video formats: DVD, IFO, VOB, MP4, MPEG, AVI, M4V, MOV, 3GP, MPG, FLV, etc.
Support Audio formats: MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, OGG, APE, etc.
Support Devices: iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Zune, PSP, PS3, Cell Phone, Creative Zen, iRiver, PMP, Archos, Sony, MP4 player and MP3 player.



Part1. How to rip DVD to MP4, MOV, AVI, MPEG, 3GP, FLV, M4V on Mac OS X?
Step1. Download and install Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac. Insert your DVD disc into DVD drive, then run the software, click “Load DVD” button to import the DVD file. You can also load DVD folders from your hard drive by clicking “Load IFO”, DVD folders files name appear like "Video_TS”.





Tips: This software supports converting by selecting chapters or customizes conversion time. If you just want certain part of the DVD movie, you can check the chapters you want or trim the movie.

Step2. This software can convert DVD to various video formats such as MP4, MPEG, AVI, M4V, MOV, 3GP, MPG, FLV, etc. Click the “Profile” drop down list to select a format you want.







Tips: If you don’t know much about video formats, you can select a format according to the name of your portable player. For example, you can select “iPod Touch MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” when you want to rip DVD movie for iPod Touch, and the default setting works great. This software also includes the DVD Audio Ripper function, so you can extract audio from DVD movie to MP3 or AAC for web using or other portable player.
If you want to customize the output video quality, you can click the “Settings” button next to the format field to open the Settings window and set video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc. See the figure below:







Step3. Select Subtitle and Audio
Regular DVD movies usually have several subtitles such as English, French, German, etc. You can select one you prefer. You can also delete the subtitle by selecting “No Subtitle”. Selecting Audio is the same.







After the above steps, click “Start” to start conversion. When the conversion finished, you can click “Open” to locate the file in your hard drive.



Part2. How to edit (trim, crop, join) DVD movie on Mac OS X
If you want to capture certain part of the DVD movie, you can click “Trim” to customize the conversion time, there will be a timeline below the preview window, you can drag the little triangle icon to set the conversion start time and end time.







If you want to cut the black edges of the DVD movie, you can click the “Crop” button, and then you will see a pop up windows (See the figure below). There is a frame in dashed line around the movie video; you can drag it to cut the black edges. More over, you can specify an area by setting the crop values. You can select an output aspect ratio and the available options are: Keep Original, full screen, 16:9 and 4:3.







If you want to join several DVD chapters into one file, on the main interface, there is a check box “Merge into one file”, select it, then you will only get one output file instead of several files by chapters.

You can click the “Effect” button and customize the brightness, saturation, contrast, volume, etc (See the figure below). You can even apply special effects such as “Emboss”, “Negative”, “Old film” and “Gray” by selecting an effect from drop-down list.







Mac DVD Ripper Software

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DVD Ripper for Mac is powerful, all-in-one DVD Ripper Mac software designed for Mac users. It is fast in ripping DVD to all popular video/audio formats on Mac as it includes the features of DVD Ripper and DVD Audio Ripper. Just a few clicks to complete your DVD ripping on Mac! Here are the basic steps to rip DVD on your Mac.

1. Download DVD Ripper for Mac and install it on your Mac.

2. Run DVD Ripper for Mac and load DVD
Insert DVD to your DVD-ROM. Run DVD Ripper for Mac, and load DVD automatically.



You can also click “Add” button to load DVD disc, or DVD folder. If you want to load DVD image, you must double-click the DVD image files firstly, and then click “Add” button to load.



3. Set the output format
After loading the DVD, please highlight the titles or chapters you want to rip, and then select the profile from the “Profile” combobox on the right “General” panel.



Tips:
1. After choosing the profile for the selected files, you can adjust parameters by the “Advance” panel, such as “Bit Rate”, “Sample Rate”, “Duration”, “Start time”, etc.
2. Preview source file
Select the file you want to view and click the “Play” button in the preview window right below. You can click the “Pause” or “Stop” button when the movie is playing. It can also help you get snapshots by the capture function easily .
This function is only for previewing the source file.



4. Set the output file destination
Click the “Browse” button to choose the path where you want to save the output files in.



5. Start converting
After everything is OK, please click the “Convert” button to start ripping.



6. View the conversion result
After the conversion, click the “Open” button at the bottom of the main interface to browse the output files.



Mac DVD Ripper software