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How to rip and edit(trim, crop, join) DVD movie on Mac OS X?



Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac is the most powerful, all-in-one DVD ripping software that designed for Mac users (support Mac OS X Leopard). This best Mac DVD Ripper can help you copy DVD to computer and rip DVD to various video formats (including MP4, AVI, M4V, MOV, 3GP, MPG, FLV) and audio formats (MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, OGG, APE, etc.) so you can easily rip DVD movies to iPhone/iPod/Zune/PSP/Apple TV/Cell Phone and other devices on Mac OS X.

This DVD Ripper for Mac provide you a series of powerful functions. The best Mac DVD Ripper can copy all of your DVD movies to computer by 1:1 perfect Video & Audio quality. You can select the chapter/subtitle and audio track you want, trim any video, cut off the black edge of the movie and merge more than one DVD chapters into one file on Mac OS X.

Step 2. Download, Install and Launch DVD Ripper for Mac
How to rip DVD to MP4, MOV, AVI, MPEG, 3GP, FLV, M4V on Mac OS X?

Download and install this 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".




Step 3. Support video, audio formats and Supported Devices
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.

Tips: If you donot 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 ˇ°Settingsˇ± 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:


Step 4. 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.












Step 5. Start Conversion DVD movie
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.



Step 6. Copy DVD movie to blank DVD disc.
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.


Step 7. Join chapter.
If you want to join several DVD chapters into one file, on the main interface, there is a check box ˇ°Merge into one fileˇ±, select it, then you will only get one output file instead of several files by chapters.













Step 8. Setting effect(brightness, saturation, contrast, volume).
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.

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