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How to rip DVD movies to portable devices like iPod, iPhone 3GS, BlackBerry etc. on Mac

Want to rip DVD to other video formats on your Mac, so as to enjoy them on your potable devices like iPod, iPhone 3GS, BlackBerry, PSP, PS3, etc.? If so, Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac will be a good choice. With this program, you can rip DVD to many kinds of media formats, like MP4, AVI, MOV, 3GP, 3G2, VOB, DV, FLV, MPG, etc. with few easy steps. So no matter what sorts of your portable devices are, you can get a compatible format for them.

Now let’s have a look at its detailed steps together.

Step 1: Download, install and run Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac

Step 2: Import DVD files, set output format and destination folder.

You can add DVD files to it through “DVD Folder” or “IFO File”. After that, you can click the drop-down list of “Format” to select the output format according to your mobile devices accepted format. At the same time, you can hit “Browse” button to specify where to locate the output files. Moreover, if you want to join multiple titles or chapters into a single file, you can tick “Merge into one file” to realize this goal.



Step 3: Set advanced settings

Clicking on “Settings” button, experienced users can set video Codec Name, Bit Rate, Video Size, and Frame Rate to optimize the quality of the video, as well as setting audio Codec Name, Bit Rate, Sample Rate, and Channels to make the quality of audio better.



Step 4: Convert

After all the settings are done, you can click “Convert” button to start DVD ripping. Once begin, the following interface will show you clearly about the ripping info, including ripping progress, time elapse, time left, generated file size, estimated file size, etc.



Additional Tips:

1. Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac supports importing unprotected DVDs and protected DVDs.

2. The conversion speed of this software is 1.5-2 times faster than the similar DVD rippers.

3. Ripping by chapters is supported.

4. There are no audio and video out of sync issues.

5. With exception of adding text as watermark, images, GIF animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the picture-in-picture effect.

6. You can use the “Trim” function to select certain DVD clips to convert. And you can also take advantage of the “Crop” function to remove black edges or change the screen size.

7. Specific effect models are provided, such as “Simple gauss blur”, “Simple laplacian sharpen”, “Aged film”, “Flip color”, and “Invert”.

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The following guide is going to show you how to rip DVD's to all sorts of video and audio formats on Mac OS X (including Snow Leopard) using DVD Ripper for Mac. It also shows several tips and tricks you need to pay attention to while using this Mac DVD Ripper to rip DVD on your Mac machine.

Step 1. Launch DVD Ripper for Mac and add DVD Movie

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Click the "Load DVD" button, and navigate to the DVD folder of the movie you want to add from your hard disc or DVD-ROM, open DVD folder, select VIDEO_TS folder and click OK.

Or, click the "Load IFO" button, find the DVD folder of the movie you want to add from your hard disc or DVD-ROM, open your DVD folder, open the VIDEO_TS folder, select all IFO files and click OK.



After you add your movie, you can choose any titles or chapters you want to convert by ticking the check boxes before them. So that you can copy and convert the whole DVD movie or just convert the selected titles or chapters. You can choose to convert certain segment of the DVD movie using trim function.

Step 2. Output Settings

At the bottom of the main window, you can select a format according to the name of your player. For example, you can select 'MOV-QuickTime (*.MOV)' when you want to rip DVD to QuickTime on Mac, and the default setting works great. This DVD ripper for Mac can also rip DVD to MP4, AVI, M4V, 3GP, MPG, MPEG, FLV on Mac OS X and convert DVD from PAL to NTSC. You can select MOV or MP4 when you rip DVD to iMovie on Mac. iMovie supports MOV and MP4 video. It is easy to rip DVD to iMovie on Mac.



Step 3. Start Conversion

When output settings are done, click the "Convert" button to start converting your Movies. You can choose to shut down your computer or open the output folder after the conversion.

Tip & Trick 1. Trim movie clips

Tick the Check boxes of the chapters or titles you want to trim, and click the "Trim" button to open the Trim window below:



Drag the slider to set the starting time and ending time, click OK.

Note: You can preview the trimmed movie clip before conversion in preview window.

Tip & Tricks 2. Crop movie clips

Check the chapter or title you want to trim, and click the "Crop" button to open the Crop window.

Select an output aspect ratio and the available options are: Keep Original, full screen, 16:9 and 4:3.

Note: You can enter the crop values manually or drag the rectangular selection frame round the video to select the displaying area.

Tip & Trick 3. Merge several titles or chapters into one file

You'll find "Merge into one file" at the bottom of the program window, after you select the titles and chapters you want to rip and finish the output settings, you can tick the check box of "Merge into one file" to merge several titles or chapters into one. This allows you to merge all movie titles into one output file so that you can enjoy a long movie without breaks.



It is recommended that you choose iMedia Converter for Mac if you want to both rip DVD and convert video on your Mac machine.