This tutorial is composed of the following three parts:
1. How to rip DVD on Mac
2. How to convert video on Mac
3. Three useful tips
The tool you need:
Wondershare DVD Ripper Suite for Mac
It is bundled by
Wondershare DVD Ripper for Mac and
Wondershare Video Converter for Mac.
It can help you rip DVD and convert video to all sorts of video formats that can be accepted by iPod touch, iPod classic, iPod nano, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, PS3, YouTube (web), Creative Zen, iRiver PMP, Archos, various video mobile phones and many other digital video and audio players.
It provides powerful functions to edit your DVD and video files. It allows you to select DVD subtitle and audio track, choose any DVD chapters/titles to convert, merge more than one DVD chapter/title or video file into a single file, trim DVD/video length, crop video area, set video brightness, contrast, and saturation, and customize video/audio output settings.
To rip DVD and convert video on Mac OS, just follow the steps below.
Step 1: How to Rip DVD on Mac OS
After downloading the zip package of Wondershare DVD Ripper Suite for Mac, extract and install it, and then run
Wondershare DVD Ripper for Mac and follow the steps below:
1. 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.
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.
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.
Step 2: How to Convert Video on Mac
And to convert video on Mac OS, just run
Wondershare Video Converter for Mac and follow the steps below:
1. Add Video files
Click the Add button, and the program will let you browse your computer hard drive. Select the video files you want to convert and click OK.
2. Output Settings
After adding video files, you can start to set output settings for each file:
1. Select an output format from the Format drop-down list. Just select an format according to the player which you want to put your videos on.
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. Click the Browse button to specify an output folder to save the converted files.
Note 1: If you want to convert all the added files into one format with the same encoding parameters, you can just click the "Apply to All" button.
Note 2: You can check the "Merger into one file" option to convert all the added video files into a single file.
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.
Step 3: Three Useful Tips Tip 1: Trim Movie
If you just want to convert a clip from your DVD/Video, 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 movie/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 DVD movie/video from the available effects including Gray, Emboss and Negative.
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