How to rip DVD and edit DVD Movies on Mac

How to Rip DVD, edit, crop, trim DVD clips and capture pictures on Mac OS X

iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac is a professional Mac DVD ripper software application that can rip DVD to all sorts of video files and extract DVD audio to various audio files.

• Convert DVD to any video or audio format on Mac OS X;
• Output Video formats include: MP4, AVI, MOV, M4V, 3GP, MPG, MPEG, FLV, etc;
• Output Audio formats include: MP3, M4A, AAC, AC3
• Edit, crop, trim DVD clips and capture pictures on Mac OS X

Free download Intel Version and PowerPC Version.

Step1. Click “Load DVD” button, or “Load IFO” button to browse your computer, find the DVD folder or the VIDEO_TS folder you want to convert from your hard disc or DVD-ROM and click OK.

Choose to rip and convert DVD one or several chapters at will by ticking the check boxes before them.

Step2. Edit DVD

1. Trim DVD Title or Chapter

If you want to capture a clip from the current title/chapter, you can click the Trim button to open the Trim window and trim the current title or chapter by dragging the Start Time slider to set the start time, and dragging the End Time slider to set the finish time. Then you can only rip segments from DVD on mac.

2. Crop DVD Video

If you want to remove the black edges or just convert an area from your movie video, you can click the Crop button to crop the video of the current title or chapter. You can specify an area either by dragging the frame around the video or setting the crop values: Top, Button, Left and Right. Above the crop pane, you can select an output aspect ratio and the available options are: Keep Original, full screen, 16:9 and 4:3. You can preview the video in the select aspect ratio on the main interface and during the conversion process.

3. Video Effort

If you want to adjust the video effect of your movie, you can click the Effect button and drag each effect adjustment slider to set the video brightness, contrast, saturation and video volume. You can also choose a special effect from the Effect drop-down list to apply to your movie.

4. Capture Pictures

After the files added, you can preview the movie in the preview window on the left of the main interface. While previewing the movie, you can capture pictures by clicking the Snapshot button. Click the Snapshot Folder button to open the folder where the captured pictures are saved. You can also specify the folder where to save the pictures. Choose a format (JPEG and BMP) for the captured pictures to be saved as. Then Click OK to finish the settings. You can find the pictures in the the folder you specified.

Set Video and audio solutions: If you want to customize the output video quality, you can click the “Settings” button to open the Settings window and set video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc. You can set audio resolution, frame rate, bit rate and encoder on the “Settings” interface.

Tips: Merge into one file: If you want to join the selected titles or chapters into one file, check “merge into one file” option. Set an output directory to save the output files.

Select an output format: Here you can select one of video formats such as “iPod Touch MPEG-4 (*.mp4) ”

Step3. Start Conversion

After setting the output settings, you can just click the Convert button to start converting your Movie. You can choose to shut down your computer or open the output folder after conversion so you don’t have to sit before your computer waiting for the conversion to finish.