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« on: June 25, 2008, 06:09:11 AM »


This step-by-step guide will show you how to rip general DVD (copy-protected included) and convert, trim, combine and edit video on Mac OS X (Leopard Supported) and Windows OS.
Part 1:Rip DVD movie to iPhone, iPod touch/classic/video/nano, Zune, PSP, etc on Mac
Part 2:Convert AVI, WMV, MPEG, RM, RMVB, ASF, MOV, DivX, XviD, MPG, etc to iPhone, iPod touch/classic/video/nano, Zune, PSP, etc on Mac
Part 3:Rip DVD movie to iPhone, iPod touch/classic/video/nano, Zune, PSP, etc on Windows
Part 4:Convert AVI, WMV, MPEG, RM, RMVB, ASF, MOV, DivX, XviD, MPG, etc to iPhone, iPod touch/classic/video/nano, Zune, PSP, etc on Windows

It is easy-to-use and the converting speed is fast! After testing, all formats conversions work well, the output audio and image quality is excellent! Let's view the steps.

Part 1: Rip DVD movie to iPhone, iPod touch/classic/video/nano, Zune, PSP, etc on Mac
Step 1. Download the latest version DVD Converter Suite for Mac and install it. You can download about it by referring DVD Converter Suite for Mac here. 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.

Step 2. 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. See the figure below:



Step 3. 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.



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.

Part 2:Convert AVI, WMV, MPEG, RM, RMVB, ASF, MOV, DivX, XviD, MPG, etc to iPhone, iPod touch/classic/video/nano, Zune, PSP, etc on Mac
Step 1. Download the latest version DVD Converter Suite for Mac and install it. You can download about it by referring DVD Converter Suite for Mac here. Click the "Add" button to import your videos. This Video Converter for Mac support batch conversion, so you can import multiple files at a time.



Step 2. This software can convert video to various video formats for iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, cell phone, etc. Click the “Format” drop-down list to select the format you prefer for each added file. If you don’t know what formats your device supports, you can just select the format according to the device name.



If you want to customize the output quality, click the “Settings” button to open the Settings panel, where you can set resolution, frame rate, video bit rate, audio bit rate, sample, etc. Since Aimersoft Video Converter for Mac supports batch conversion, you can use different profiles for the added video files to save your time. If you don’t want to do these settings, the default settings will just work perfectly.



Step 3. 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.

Part 3: Rip DVD movie to iPhone, iPod touch/classic/video/nano, Zune, PSP, etc on Windows
1. Download the latest version Ultimate DVD Video Converter Suite, and install it. You can know more about it by referring DVD Converter Suite here.
 


2. Run the Ultimate DVD Converter, load your DVD by clicking 'Open DVD' button or choosing 'Open DVD' from 'File' drop down menu. One or several titles appear in the list after loading DVD.



3. Profile select. You can choose other video formats: iPod, iPhone, iPod touch, iPod video nano, Zune, PSP, video capable MP3 players, video capable mobile phones, Pocket P.C and so on. iPod MPEG4 Movie(.mp4) is the default DVD for iPod video quality. Set the appropriate format as you like.



4. Output settings. Set your Audio/Video output Settings and tick appropriate parameters.



5. Choose the pathname where you want to save your video files by clicking the right button of Output table. When everything is setted well, click the 'Convert' button to start converting.

Tips:
Tip1: Crop---- Choose the crop mode
Tip2: Resize-------Choose the output size you need
Set Crop to "Crop both black bands" and resize to be "stretch to full screen" if you don't need to keep the subtitle.
Set crop to "Crop the upper black band" so you can keep the subtitle in the down black band.



Tip3: Mode
Direct mode, you can convert the main movie directly.
Batch mode, you can choose the chapter you need to convert.

Part 4: Convert AVI, WMV, MPEG, RM, RMVB, ASF, MOV, DivX, XviD, MPG, etc to iPhone, iPod touch/classic/video/nano, Zune, PSP, etc on Windows

1. Download the latest version Ultimate DVD Video Converter Suite, and install it. You can know more about it by referring DVD Converter Suite here.
 


2. Run the Ultimate Video Converter, load the video files you'd like to convert by clicking 'Open file' button.



3. Profile select. You can choose other video formats: iPod, iPhone, iPod touch, iPod video nano, Zune, PSP, video capable MP3 players, video capable mobile phones, Pocket P.C and so on. iPod MPEG4 Movie(.mp4) is the default DVD for iPod video quality. Set the appropriate format as you like.

4. Output settings. Set your Audio/Video output Settings and tick appropriate parameters.

5. Choose the pathname where you want to save your video files by clicking the right button of Output table. When everything is setted well, click the 'Convert' button to start converting.

Tips:
Tip1: Crop---- Choose the crop mode
Tip2: Resize-------Choose the output size you need
Set Crop to "Crop both black bands" and resize to be "stretch to full screen" if you don't need to keep the subtitle.
Set crop to "Crop the upper black band" so you can keep the subtitle in the down black band.
Tip3: Mode
Direct mode, you can convert the main movie directly.
Batch mode, you can choose the chapter you need to convert.

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« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2008, 02:39:05 AM »

tunecab can not work well, why?
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« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2008, 01:15:30 PM »

I found some professional reviews of the DVD and Video Conversion software. It is easy to find the best one we need from the side-by-side comparision. Share it here, hope it helps.
http://www.topsreviews.com/reviews/dvd-video-converter-suite-review.html
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« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2008, 01:37:08 PM »

Does this guide support convert the flv file which are download from the Youtube?
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« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2008, 02:32:00 AM »

iSofter DVD Ripper Platinum software is truly a effect solution for all your  DVD burning needs. This DVD copying software is a one-click DVD backup tool with great features and its Free to Download.

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iSofter DVD Ripper Platinum is an all in one tool that aims at converting your DVDs into different video formats compatible with the portable video playing devices on the market.

The application will turn your DVDs into M4A, MP4, MPG, AVI, Mp3, WMA, WMV and 3GP.

The audio formats included in the supported list prove that DVD Ripper Platinum is also able to extract audio files from the DVD you are feeding.

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« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2008, 12:42:06 PM »


I found some professional reviews of the DVD and Video Conversion software. It is easy to find the best one we need from the side-by-side comparision. Share it here, hope it helps.
http://www.topsreviews.com/reviews/dvd-video-converter-suite-review.html
For Mac user, you can try the DVD Video Converter Suite for Mac, it can help Mac OS X users not only rip DVD to AVI, MP4, MPEG, MOV, but also finish conversions among all common video format like convert AVI to MP4, convert MPEG to AVI, etc. With the DVD Converter Suite for Mac, you can easily put your favorite DVD and video on iPhone, iPod, PSP, Zune, Apple TV, YouTube, etc.
http://www.macdvdconverter.com/mac-dvd-converter.html

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« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2008, 03:46:58 AM »

You can try the all-in-one DVD and video software, meet all your needs. It converts DVDs and videos to play on iPod touch/classic/video/nano, iPhone, Zune, Zen, PSP, video capable MP3 players, video capable mobile phones, and Pocket P.C., etc.
http://www.freedvdripper.org/dvdvideoconverter/cucusoft-ultimate-dvd-video-converter-suite.html
Here is a step by step guide to rip DVD and convert any videos to other video formats and audio formats for iPod touch/classic/video/nano, iPhone, Zune, PSP, video capable MP3 players, YouTube, Myspace, etc. Meanwhile, it can also support output almost any audio/video format including Video format (H264, MP4, WMV, AVI, MOV, RM, 3GP, flv, SWF, mpeg-1, mpeg-2, VCD, SVCD, DVD, etc.) and Audio format (AC3, AAC, MP2, MP3, MP4, RA, WMA, etc.). It is easy-to-use and the converting speed is fast!
http://www.freedvdripper.org/dvdvideoguide/dvd-video-conversion-guide-with-ultimate-dvd-video-converter.html
Also, you can find some other software:
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« Reply #7 on: November 09, 2008, 02:16:27 PM »

Any other great pro for Mac?
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« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2008, 05:09:03 AM »

MOD Converter is an excellent MOD Video Converter which can convert MOD video to AVI, MPEG, mpg, WMV, ASF, MP4, 3GP, RM, DVD VCD, SVCD, etc.

MOD is informal name of tapeless video format used by JVC (MOD and TOD) and Panasonic (MOD only) in some models of digital camcorders. So these camcorders always create *.mod files which not supported by many popular players. With the MOD file Converter, we can easily convert *.mod files to other popular formats for medial play, Mp4, iPod, home DVD player, etc.

Moreover, the MOD Converter provides powerful edit functions, we can crop the video, trim the video, customize the video effect, merge into one file , etc.
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« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2008, 02:40:27 AM »

YouTube Video Converter is the most powerful YouTube assistant software in market today. The YouTube FLV Converter can download YouTube videos unlimited simultaneously (a real time saver!); Automatically name the downloaded video the same as the YouTube title; Convert YouTube videos to various video formats, including avi, DivX, XviD, rm, rmvb, MOV, MPEG, MPEG4 AVC, H.264 and WMV, VOB; VCD, SVCD and DVD Format .mpg; Convert download YouTube videos to a format compatible with your favorite portable device, including iPod Video, iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPhone, Zune, PSP, PDA, Apple TV, as well as video capable MP3 players, 3GP mobile phones, and Pocket PC.
 
The FLV Editor is an idea solution to edit the FLV files without changing the FLV format. With the FLV Editor, we can clip the video, crop the video, merge the selected FLV files into one, add watermark on the FLV file, add subtitle, customize the video effect, etc. Moreover, the FLV Editor allows us to trim one selected file into several segments and output one FLV video with several output formats. (you can click the above related links to directly reach the related edit description or refer the left navigation)
 
The DVD to iPod Mac Software also can convert DVD to other popular video formats like: FLV, MPEG1, MPEG2, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, MOV, AVI, MPEG TS/TP (for HD Video), etc. With the DVD to iPod converter for Mac Software, you can freely enjoy your favorite DVD on video iPod, on iPod touch, iPod Video, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, PS3, Youtube (web), Creative Zen, iRiver PMP, Archos, various video mobile phones and many other digital video and audio players.

Apple TV Converter for Mac is a popular and powerful video to Apple TV conversion software on Mac OS (including Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard).
 
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« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2008, 12:25:40 AM »

Do you have your favorite DVD movies? Whether do you hope to play with your iPod but always in trouble? Here I'll recommend the DVD to iPod Converter Mac.
The DVD to iPod Converter for Mac is a powerful and professional DVD to iPod Mac OS X software to convert DVD to iPod for Mac with excelent quality and fast conversion speed. With the powerful Mac DVD to iPod Converter, you can freely enjoy your favorite DVD movies with your iPod everywhere.
Transfer iPod to Computer is premium iPod transfer software for iPod music, video and photo transferring. It can transfer iPod to computer and backup iPod to computer quickly and smoothly. It's also a computer to iPod transfer tool which can transfer iPod music, videos and photos from computer to iPod.
iPhone Converter for Mac is a powerful Mac iPhone converter which can convert all popular video formats to iPhone on Mac perfectly and quickly. The iPhone Converter for Mac can not only convert iPhone for Mac but also can convert avi, wmv, mpeg, mp4, mov, vob, divx, xvid to iPod, PSP, Zune or convert video formats between them.
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« Reply #11 on: December 29, 2008, 02:53:28 PM »

For someone who want to edit videos, you may try this AVS Video Editor which has many great

functions. The features in the official site are below:
1. Direct Transfer to iPod, PSP, Mobiles and Other Portable Players
2. Supports Virtually ALL Video Formats
3. Burn Movie DVDs
4. Capture and Edit Video from External Devices
5. Edit Video and Enhance Your Movies
6. Create Slide Shows
7. Make Perfect Audio for Your Video Editing Tasks
8. Scene Detection
9. Convenient Video Editing Tools and Interface

There is the free download link:
http://www.avs4you.com/AVS-Video-Editor.aspx?sct=aff&ct=regnow&cid=189508
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