This document discusses how to copy or convert Blu-ray movies to DVD format for backup purposes. It describes using Leawo Blu-ray Copy software, which can compress Blu-ray movies to DVD while retaining high quality. The process involves adding a Blu-ray disc, selecting the copy or conversion mode, adjusting settings, and starting the copy or conversion. Tips are provided for selecting effective Blu-ray to DVD backup software that can decrypt discs, backup to folders/ISOs, burn ISOs, compress highly, and backup or convert movies quickly.

1. Blu-ray to DVD – How
to Copy Blu-ray to DVD
for Blu-ray Backup
From: http://www.leawo.org/tutorial/copy-blu-ray-to-dvd.html

2. Watching movies has become one of the major digital entertainment ways in
people’s daily life, especially HD movies like 1080P 3D/2D Blu-ray movies, be it
at cinema or with home theatre system. As known to all, compared with DVD,
Blu-ray offers better movie experience for its larger storage, which affords better
image quality, better sound quality, and more special features. However,
sometimes you may need to copy Blu-ray movies to DVD disc or convert Blu-ray
movies to DVD video formats for diverse purposes. If you’re looking for a
solution to copy Blu-ray to DVD, this post would satisfy you.
 Why Convert/Copy Blu-ray to DVD
 Copy Blu-ray to DVD
 Convert Blu-ray to DVD
 Tips to select Blu-ray to DVD backup software

3. Basic Knowledge: Why Convert/Copy Blu-ray
to DVD
Without doubt, watching Blu-ray movies gain better HD movie experience. However, the
problem is that currently Blu-ray still costs a big amount of cash. To watch Blu-ray movies, a Blu-
ray player is a must-have, which might cost you hundreds of or even a thousand dollar. Even if
you’re using free Blu-ray player software, you need to pay extra money on a Blu-ray recorder
drive. While DVD costs less than $20 and regular DVD drive is also a DVD burner. By comparing
the cost, it’s reasonable to copy Blu-ray to DVD.
There’re cases you may need to backup Blu-ray to DVD for multiple uses, like playing Blu-ray
main movie on DVD player, watching Blu-ray main movies on iPad and other portable devices,
etc. Also, due to frequent insert-and-eject, both Blu-ray drive and Blu-ray disc could get
damaged. The fragile Blu-ray disc could even get scratched, breakage, broken, etc. To avoid such
cases, it’s recommended you copy Blu-ray to DVD for cost saving, convenient Blu-ray movie
enjoying, and disc safekeeping.
To backup Blu-ray to DVD, actually there’re 2 directions you could think about: copy Blu-ray to
DVD disc, and convert Blu-ray to DVD video format. The first solution helps you play back Blu-
ray main movie on DVD players, while the latter one enables you to store main movie of Blu-ray
on computer and play back it freely anytime as you like.

4. How to Copy Blu-ray to DVD
Copying Blu-ray to DVD actually means to compress Blu-ray to DVD disc, because Blu-ray has much larger
storage DVD. Hence, a high quality Blu-ray to DVD compressor that could compress Blu-ray to DVD with high
compressing rate and little quality loss would be of great importance. The below steps show you how to copy
Blu-ray to DVD by using Leawo Blu-ray Copy, a professional Blu-ray to DVD copier that could copy and burn
Blu-ray to DVD-9/DVD-5 with high quality compressing.
Why using Leawo Blu-ray Copy
Copying Blu-ray to DVD requires high quality Blu-ray compression and no quality loss. Leawo Blu-ray Copy
could compress Blu-ray movies by up to 70% but retain original Blu-ray movie quality to the highest,
including Blu-ray to DVD-9/DVD-5. Meanwhile, Leawo Blu-ray Copy is empowered with advanced disc
decrypting tech, which could bypass Blu-ray disc protection and copy Blu-ray to DVD successfully.
Preparation work
Original Blu-ray disc, Blu-ray recorder drive, computer, blank DVD disc, download and install Leawo Blu-ray
Copy on your computer. After those, follow the below steps to learn how to copy Blu-ray to DVD:

5. Step 1: Add Blu-ray disc
Insert source Blu-ray disc into the
Blu-ray drive and then launch Leawo
Blu-ray Copy. Click the “Add Blu-
ray/DVD” button to browse and
add original Blu-ray disc from disc
drive.

6. Step 2: Choose copy mode
At the bottom of the left processing list panel, choose the output DVD disc type
according to your blank DVD disc. It should be noted that under Blu-ray to DVD
backup, full movie backup is not supported. You could only select from Main
Movie and Custom Mode. Main Movie would automatically select the longest
title (the main movie) for backup, while Custom Mode allows you to select
desired titles for backup to DVD disc.

7. Step 3: More settings
Click the big green "Copy" button to bring
out the sidebar, where you need to finish
another 3 settings: Copy to, Disc Label and
Save to. If you get additional DVD drive
plus the Blu-ray recorder drive, insert your
blank DVD disc into the DVD drive and
then select the DVD drive as output under
"Copy to" option. If you only get one Blu-
ray drive, just select to copy to "ISO File".
Disc Label and Save to directory could be
set upon your will. After these settings,
click the "Copy" button on the sidebar.

8. Step 4: Put ISO file to DVD disc
If you only get one Blu-ray recorder drive on your computer and you’ve chosen to copy
to “ISO File” in step 3, after ISO file has been generated, reopen Leawo Blu-ray Copy
and then click the inverted drop-down triangle arrow next to the “Add Blu-ray/DVD”
button and then click “Add iso file” option to add generated ISO file for burning to
DVD disc. Inject original Blu-ray disc and then insert blank DVD disc into the Blu-ray
recorder drive. Click the refresh button on the “Add iso file” window to set blank DVD
disc as “Copy to” target. After that, click the “Burn” button.

9. How to Convert Blu-ray to DVD
Some other people may want to convert Blu-ray to DVD videos like VOB format
for playback on Windows Movie player or other players/devices. It’s quite easy
to do this with the help of Leawo Blu-ray Ripper – an expert Blu-ray decrypting,
ripping, and converting program that could decrypt, rip and convert any Blu-ray
movies to 180+ video formats including VOB, MP4, MKV, AVI, etc. For multiple
uses.

10. Detailed steps on converting Blu-ray to DVD VOB are listed below:
Step 1: Load Blu-ray disc
Click the “Add Blu-ray/DVD” button
to browse and import Blu-ray disc
from Blu-ray recorder drive to Leawo
Blu-ray Ripper. Select “Main Movie”
mode to load source Blu-ray main
movie for converting to DVD VOB
format.

11. Step 2: Set output format
Click the drop-down box before the
big green “Convert” button and
then select “Change” option. On the
popup “Profile” panel, select
“Format > Common Video > VOB
Video” or “Format > HD Video >
HD VOB Video” as output format.
You could also make use of the profile
search bar for quick profile setting.

12. Step 3: Other settings and convert
Return to the main interface and then
click the big green “Convert” button.
On the popup sidebar, set output
directory to save the final result in
“Save to” option and then click the
“Convert” button on the sidebar to
start converting Blu-ray to DVD VOB files.
Note: After converting Blu-ray to DVD VOB
file with this Blu-ray to DVD converter, you
could play back the converted Blu-ray main
movie on any VOB-compatible player. If you
want to put the DVD VOB file onto blank DVD
disc, you need to burn DVD VOB file to DVD
disc using Leawo Blu-ray Creator.

13. Tips on How to Select Blu-ray to DVD
Backup Software
Blu-ray to DVD copy/converting software plays an important role on copying Blu-ray to
DVD or converting Blu-ray to DVD. How to select a practical, efficient and cost-effective
Blu-ray to DVD backup software program? You could refer to the following tips:
Disc decrypting: Most Blu-ray discs are encrypted and/or region restricted. This is very
necessary for copyright protection, but not applicable to those people who have
already purchased and planned for a non-commercial use of the Blu-ray discs they have.
Therefore, disc decrypting ability is required for Blu-ray to DVD backup software.
Blu-ray/DVD to folder or ISO file backup: The support to backup Blu-ray/DVD to
folder and/or ISO file is also quite important, especially ISO image file, which represents
quality lossless Blu-ray backup.
ISO to disc backup: You could download ISO files online or get ISO files ripped from
discs. In most situations, you may need to burn ISO file to blank disc. Blu-ray to DVD
backup software with support of ISO to disc burning is especially useful when your
computer has only one Blu-ray recorder drive.

14. Blu-ray compression: Blu-ray to DVD backup is actually a Blu-ray to DVD compression
process. The higher compressing rate and less quality loss the Blu-ray to DVD backup
software could offer, the better it would be.
Movie-only backup: Movie-only backup is in fact an effective way to save storage. You
could just backup the main movie, saving time and space.
Blu-ray converting: Sometimes you may need to convert Blu-ray movies to DVD VOB or
other video formats like MP4, AVI, MKV, FLV, etc. for diverse uses.
Speed for Blu-ray to DVD backup: How long it would take to finish a Blu-ray to DVD
backup matters a lot. Taking Leawo Blu-ray Copy as example, it comes with graphics card
acceleration, which include NVIDIA CUDA, AMD APP and Intel Quick Sync. This means it
could greatly shorten the backup/converting process and be faster than other alternatives.
Price: The cost is of course an important thing to think about during selecting Blu-ray to
DVD backup software.

15. For more details, welcome to visit:
http://www.leawo.org/tutorial/copy-blu-ray-to-dvd.html
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