How to Rip DVD on Mac

This step-by-step guide will show you how to use iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac to rip general DVD on Mac OS X (tiger and leopard). Use iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac, you can rip dvd to all sorts fo video and audio formats. on Mac easily. You can also rip dvd to quicktime(.mov) on mac using this mac dvd ripper. It also lets you compress the dvd on mac while converting and lets you extract audio from dvd on mac.

Step 1. Add DVD Movie

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

Or, click the Load IFO button, browse your computer, 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 the IFO files and click OK .

Step 2: Output Settings

Filename: Name the output file for the current title/chapter. Subtitle: Regular DVD movies usually have several subtitles such as English, French, German, etc. You can select one you prefer So that you can convert dvd with subtitle on mac , mac book. You can also delete the subtitle by selecting “ No Subtitle ”. Selecting Audio is the same. Audio: Select an audio track from the available audio tracks of your DVD movie.

Select an output format: 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 “MOV-QickTime(*.mov)” when you want to rip DVD to QickTime on Mac, and the default setting works great. This dvd ripper for Mac also can rip dvd to MP4, AVI, M4V, 3GP, MPG, MPEG, FLV on Mac OS X and convert dvd from PAL to NTSC.

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. iSkysoft DVD Ripper for mac lets you extract audio from DVD movie to MP3 or AAC for web using or other portable player. You can set audio resolution, frame rate, bit rate and encoder on the “Settings” interface.

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.

Step 3: 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.

If you want to edit your movie before converting it, iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac provides your with various powerful functions including:

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.

3. Video Effect

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.