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DVD Copy and Backup on Mac OS X

This step-by-step guide is dedicating to demonstrate how to backup DVD movie(copyright protected included) to computer and copy DVD to a new DVD disc with no protections on Mac OS X (leopard included)

The tool you need is Aimersoft Mac DVD Copy, which you can download for free from:
http://www.aimersoft.com/mac-dvd-copy.html

It's very easy to use, just with three simple steps then you can easily copy DVD on Mac.

Step1. Select DVD Source
After you install and lunch Aimersoft Mac DVD Copy, put the DVD disc into your DVD drive. Click the ?Select Source? drop-down list to browse your computer and located your source DVD movie (either in a folder or from your DVD-ROM).

Step2: Select DVD Copy Method

Aimersoft Mac DVD Copy allows you to back up DVD to a folder on your hard drive or directly copy DVD to a new DVD disc. In the "Select DVD Copy Method" field, select a method to output the selected DVD movie according to your need:

If you want to back up your DVD movie to a folder on your hard disc, you can select the ?Output DVD Folder? option, and specify a directory to save the copied DVD movie.

If you want to directly copy your DVD movie to a new DVD disc, you can just select the DVD Burner where you have inserted a blank DVD disc.

Note: If you are copying a DVD disc from your DVD Burner to a new DVD disc, Aimersoft Mac DVD Copy will ask you to insert a blank DVD disc when the program gets ready to burn. Then you can just take the original DVD disc out and insert a blank DVD disc.
But if you have two or multiple DVD Burner, you just need to change object DVD to another DVD burner and insert a blank disc into it , then Aimersoft Mac DVD Copy will automatically copy DVD movie to the new DVD disc. No need to wait for the conversion to insert a new blank DVD disc.


Step3: Program Settings (optional)

Set Buffer Directory: Specify a directory on your hard drive as the buffer directory to store the temporary files generated during the conversion. We recommend that you select a folder on a hard drive that has relatively big free space.

Select Language: Select an interface language for the program. The currently available languages are English and Simplified Chinese.




Step4: Start Copying DVD
After all things done, click the Start button to start copying your DVD movie or burning it to a new DVD disc. That's all.

 

Posted at 02:05AM Apr 17, 2008 by windbell in Mac  |  Comments[0]

How to put DVD into Windows Movie Maker and iMovie

If you want to edit a DVD movie with Windows Movie Maker or import several DVD clips into Mac iMovie to build a new DVD, but you get frustrated with the DVD format, this guide may help you solve the problem.

Before you get started, it will be helpful if you learn something about the DVD, WMM and iMovie.
General DVDs have CSS copy protection in MPEG-2 or VOB format.
(Windows) Windows Movie Maker supports WMV, AVI and MPG video files.
(Mac) iMovie accepts MOV and MPEG4 video files.
 
This guide includes three parts;

1. How to put DVD movie into Windows Movie Maker.
2. How to add DVD clips to Apple Mac iMovie
Tip: How to convert MSWMM file to other video formats.

Part1. How to put DVD movie into Windows Movie Maker

Step1. To put a DVD movie into Windows Movie Maker, you have to rip your DVD to WMV or AVI videofirst, and then you can load it into Windows Movie Maker. I?d prefer using Aimersoft DVD Ripper to do this. You can get this program at: http://www.aimersoft.com/dvd-ripper.html

Then install and run it, put your DVD disc into your DVD drive, click "Load DVD" to locate your DVD file and import it, or load it by clicking "Load File" to add DVD IFO file. (This DVD Ripper can rip copyright protected DVD movies, but you should remember that it?s illegal rip DVD for any business purposes)

Step2. Select output format and subtitle
After you load the DVD files, click the format drop-down list to select "WMV - Windows Media Video (*.wmv)" or "AVI - Audio Video Interleaved (*.avi)" as the output format. A regular DVD movie has multiple subtitles and audio tracks, and you can select the right one for you. If you just want a certain part of the DVD movie, you can click "trim" to cut the DVD movie. Just drag the timeline bar to set the start and end time, and then blue line will be the captured parts.

For advanced user, if you want to output higher quality video, click the "Settings" button to open the panel, here you can customize video bitrate, audio bitrate, resolution, framerate, etc. Higher bitrate will result in bigger file size.

Step3. Start to convert
After the above steps, you just need to click"Start" and wait for the conversion to be finished. It takes about 40 minutes to convert a common two hours DVD movie.

Step4. Edit DVD with Windows Movie Maker (optional)
Run Windows Movie Maker, in the "Movie Task" bar, click ?Add Video? to browse your computer and located the converted files, and then you can start to make personal movies.

Tips: Many users may wonder how they can convert Windows Movie Maker file (*.MSWMM) to other video format. Actually, A *.MSWMM file is not a video file. It is a project file of Movie Maker (more like a record file). You have to open this file in Windows Movie Maker and save the movie to your computer: Go to Movie Tasks bar > Finish Movie > Save to my computer. After that you will have a WMV file which can be converted to another video format or burned to DVD.

Part2. How to add DVD clips into Apple iMovie
iMovie is similar to Windows Movie Maker, it supports MOV and MP4 video, so you just need to convert your DVD movie to the right format. Aimersoft DVD Ripper has a Mac Version which supports both Mac OS Tiger and Leopard; you can download it for free from here:
http://www.aimersoft.com/dvd-ripper-for-mac.html
The operation steps are similar to the windows version, so I will not bother to repeat everything here.

When the conversion is finished, you can run the iMovie, build a new project, and then drag the converted files to the work space to make personal files.

When the task is finished, In the Menu bar, Click "File" -> "Export" and save it as QuickTime video, then you can convert it to other video format or burn it to DVD. If you need detailed info, here is a step by step guide about how to export iMovie project to QuickTime.

Posted at 02:05AM Apr 11, 2008 by windbell in Mac  |  Comments[0]

Rip DVD Movie on Mac OS X

Want to convert your DVD movies for iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Zune, PSP and a lot more mobile devices on Mac OS X? Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac(include Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Intel and Power PC) is a professional Mac DVD ripper softwareapplication 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. below is the detailed guide on how to use Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac to rip DVD for you, enjoy it now!

What you need is Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac; you can free download it from here:
http://www.aimersoft.com/dvd-ripper-for-mac.html

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.

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.
Note: If you want to combine 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.

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 edit your movie before converting it, Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac provides your with various powerful functions including:

1.Crop DVD
After you load the DVD file, 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 click the Crop drop-down list to select a Crop model you prefer, for example: "Cut off top and bottom black edges". You can even type the number in the box to cut off black border accurately.

2.Snatch Pictures
If you want to snatch pictures from DVD, while you previewing the DVD movie, there will be a small camera icon below the preview window, click it when you want to snacth the picture, it supports output picture as JPEG or BMP format.

3.Effect DVD
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.

4.Trim DVD
A whole DVD movie might be very large. By default, this software will convert the whole DVD to one file; if you just want several chapters of the DVD, you can just select the chapters you want to convert (you can preview the DVD clip before converting it).
Or you can click "Trim"button to open the trim panel, drag the trim bar to set start time and end time to convert a clip from your movie. You can also type the exact time values in the Set Start Time field and Set End Time field to trim video.

 

 

 

Posted at 12:07AM Apr 08, 2008 by windbell in Mac  |  Comments[0]