One of the best features of iPhone is that it is the best iPod Apple ever created. The recently released iPhone 3G has surpassed iPod touch and the old iPhone in regard of entertaining functions, and it even supports MOV movies and has a memeory up to 16G, which is more than enough to store multiple movies. With the larger memory of Phone 3G, we are now enabled to put a lot more movies on iPhone. As a huge Macintosh fan, I would like to share a guide for Mac users about how to convert DVD and video onto iPhone 3G with two apps: DVD to iPhone 3G app and a video to iPhone 3G app.

Install Wondershare DVD to iPhone 3G for Mac, and follow the three steps below to convert DVD to iPhone 3G:

Step 1: Import DVD Movie



Click the Load DVD button, select the folder of your DVD movie, and click OK. If the movie is on your disc drive, you can just select the drive and click OK. Or click the Load IFO button, open the folder of your DVD movie, and you will find two folders in it: AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. Open the VIDEO_TS folder, select all the IFO files, and then click OK.

After the movie is imported, you can see all the chapters and titles in it, and then you can check the ones you want to convert. If you want to convert the whole movie, you can just keep all the titles or chapters checked.

Step 2: Output Settings



Before the conversion, there are a few settings you could make:
   1. Select the iPhone 3G Video format from the Format drop-down list (Besides iPhone video and iPhone audio, this software also supports outputting video and audios for iPod and Apple TV).
   2. Click the Settings button to set encoding settings including video resolution, frame rate, bit rate and video encoder, audio encoding settings including sample rate, channel, bit rate and audio encoder.
   3. Name each title/chapter in the Output Filename field, and select the subtitle and audio track for the titles/chapters.

Note: You can check the "Merge into one file" option to join all the selected DVD titles/chapters into one file instead of creating a separated file for each title/chapter.

Step 3:
Click the Start button to start the conversion. And now you can just go for a walk and wait till the conversion is completed. After that, you can just transfer the created files to your iPhone 3G with iTunes.

Tip 1: Trim Movie
If you just want to convert a clip from your DVD movie, you can click the Trim icon to capture a clip. In the Trim window, you can trim the length of the current title/chapter by either dragging the Start Time and End Time sliders or setting the time parameters in each corresponding field.


Tip 2: Crop Video
If you DVD video has black sides, you can use this Crop function to remove them. Click the Crop icon to open the Crop window, and set the crop area by dragging the crop frame or setting the four crop parameters (Top, Bottom, Left and Right).


Tip 3: Movie Effect
If you are not content with the original effect, you can click the Effect icon to set the video brightness, contrast, saturation, and audio volume. You can also choose to apply a special effect to your movie video from effects including Gray, Emboss and Negative.


Hope the above info will help you put your movies on your iPhone 3G.
For more conversion tool and tips, you can visit my blog for mac users: dvd and video conversion studio.