How to rip DVD to popular video and audio formats on Mac OS X?
The following guide shows you how to rip DVD's to all sorts of video and audio formats on Mac OS X using iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac. It also shows several tips and tricks you need to pay attention to while using this Mac DVD Ripper to rip DVD on your Mac machine.
Note: If you are using Windows OS, please switch to: How to rip DVD movies and edit DVD movies?
Step 1. Launch DVD Ripper for Mac and add DVD Movie
Drag & drop DVD disc icon on the desktop to the program. Or go to "File" menu, choose "Load DVD" to locate the DVD movies (including DVD Video, DVD IFO file, DVD folder, dvdmedia file) you want to add.
The defaulted setting only read main feature of the DVD movie for conversion, without DVD menu and the movie just starts playing right away. If you want to import the whole DVD, go to "Preference" and unchecked "Load main title of the DVD".
Subtitle: Regular DVD movies usually have several subtitles such as English, French, German, etc. You can select the one you prefer so that you can convert DVD with subtitle on Mac. You can also delete the subtitle by selecting 'No Subtitle'
Audio Track: Select an audio track from the available audio tracks of your DVD movie.
Step 2. Output Settings
Select an output format: For example, you can select 'MOV' when you want to rip DVD to QuickTime on Mac, and the default setting works great. This DVD ripper for Mac can also rip DVD to MP4, AVI, M4V, 3GP, MPG, MPEG, FLV on Mac OS X and convert DVD from PAL to NTSC. If you don't know much about video formats, you can select a format according to the name of your portable player.
Set Video and audio solutions: If you want to resize output video files or tailor settings for specific use, you can click the "Settings" button to open the Settings window and set video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc.
Step 3. Start DVD Movie Conversion
After the output settings, you can just hit the Convert button to start converting your movies. You can choose to shut down your computer or open the output folder after the conversion.
Next part: How to edit, crop, trim DVD clips and capture pictures on Mac OS X
It is recommended that you choose iMedia Converter for Mac if you want to both rip DVD and convert video on your Mac machine.
