Rip and edit DVD movie on mac os x(including leopard)

[windbell]

This step-by-step guide will show you how to rip general DVD (copy-protected included) on Mac OS X (Leopard Supported)

What you need is Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac; you can free download it from here:
Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac Official Website

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.

[Gaz]

gotta be handbrake for ripping dvd's. best tool out there on any platform imo.

[mabsey]

This guy is spamming loads of forums with this crap. He/she should be banned. (I don't mean you, Gaz )

[tachyon]

Looks like Aimersoft are a formerly Windows-only software company. That may be how they promote themselves in PCLand, by posting in forums.

One thing that did work for them is that I hadn't heard of this software before, and now i have.

What they should do is add themselves to the database at Versiontracker, then they might get a few more hits. I didn't check at Macupdate, Wakoopa, Deligio or any of the other sites.

[Mr. Mayor]

tachyon,

Yep, kind of figured this was a half shameless plug, half useful post so I left it here Has started some good discussion anyway.

They would certainly be smart to add themselves to those databases... Especially Macupdate.

[windbell]

How to import DVD to iMovie
iMovie supports MOV and MP4 video, so you just need to convert your DVD movie to the right format. Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac can easily convert DVD to MOV or MP4 with high quality, you just need to import DVD to Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac, select MOV or MP4 as output format, 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.


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.

[windbell]

As open source software, handbrake would be the best FREE DVD conversion tool for Mac users.
You can follow the guide about How to Rip DVD on Mac with HandBrake.

[hans0m]

The handbrake guide is great.
Thanks for sharing.