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Add Video files Click the Add button, and the program will let you browse your computer hard drive. Select the video files you want to convert and click OK. Step 2. Output Settings After adding video files, you can start to set output settings for each file: 1. Select an output format from the Format drop-down list. Just select an format according to the player which you want to put your videos on. 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. Click the Browse button to specify an output folder to save the converted files. Note 1. If you want to convert all the added files into one format with the same encoding parameters, you can just click the "Apply to All" button. Note 2. You can check the "Merger into one file" option to convert all the added video files into a single file. Step 3. Click the Start button to start the conversion. And all you need to do now is to wait for the conversion to be finished. The remaining time will be shown on conversion window for your reference. Tip 1. Trim Movie If you just want to convert a clip from a video file, you can select this file and click the Trim icon to capture a clip from it. In the Trim window, you can trim video length either by dragging the Start Time and End Time sliders or by setting the time parameters in each corresponding field. Tip 2. Crop Video If a video file has black video sides around its video, you can click the Crop button to open the Crop window and remove the black video sides. You can specify the video crop area by dragging the crop frame or setting the four crop parameters (Top, Bottom, Left and Right). Tip 3. Movie Effect If you want to change the original video effect, you can click the Effect icon to set the video brightness, contrast, saturation, and even audio volume. You can also choose to apply a special effect to your video from the available effects including Gray, Emboss and Negative. Note. If a converted video has stripe, you can select a Deinterlace mode here and convert the original file again to remove the stripes. Mon, 05 May 2008 05:03:00 GMT http://mactheripper.spoonylife.com/free-resources-download-682.html Free Mac themes download http://www.mac-dvd-ripper.com/article/free-mac-theme.html Free Mac games download http://www.mac-dvd-ripper.com/article/free-mac-game.html Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:44:00 GMT http://mactheripper.spoonylife.com/how-to-edit-dvd-and-burn-dvd-on-mac-os-x-669.html Watching self-made DVDs can be very enjoyable. But the final quality may not be as good as we thought it would be due that the process of making your own DVD might not be very professional. So here comes the question of how to edit a half-prepared DVD movie, say a DVD taken by DVD camcorder, to a high quality DVD. In fact, this is not complicated. All you need to do is the following two steps: 1. Re-edit your DVD movie on your computer. 2. Burn the optimized DVD movie to a new DVD disc. My OS is Mac, so everything below is based on Mac OS. Firstly, edit your DVD and put it on your computer. The moving editing tool that I am using is Wondershare DVD Ripper for Mac. This software is actually for converting DVD to many players such as iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, mobile phones etc..., but it also has very useful DVD editing functions including adjusting video brightness, contrast and saturation, and choosing to apply a special video effect and so forth. Follow the procedures below to edit your DVD movie: A. Install this program and launch it. Import your DVD movie, preview each title/chapter and decide which title/chapter you want to edit. You can also click the Trim icon to trim a title or chapter to capture the exact part you want to edit. If you want to edit the whole movie, you can just check all the titles or chapters. B. Click the Crop icon to crop your DVD movie and select the video area of your DVD movie you would like to keep. If you want to keep the whole original area, you can just skip this step. C. Click the Effect icon and adjust your video contrast, brightness and saturation to the best level you prefer. If you want to use a special effect, you can also select a video effect for your movie. D. Choose an output format. There are many output formats from the output format drop-down menu, and most of them will work. I usually use the MP4 format because I may also use the converted movie on my iPod or PSP. E. After the above settings, you can just select an output format and click the Converter button to convert the optimized DVD movie onto your computer. Secondly and lastly, burn the optimized movie back to a DVD disc. This burning tool I use is iDVD. This program offers a great solution to DVD reauthorization. Put the optimized movies under \\user\\Movies, and the iDVD program will index them. Then follow the step below: A. Create a project. When you create a project, you should choose an aspect ratio first, either 16:9 or 4:3. For me, I always choose 4:3 because the aspect ratio of my TV is 4:3. B. Choose a template. iDVD has many menu templates for your choice. Click the template you prefer and it will be applied. C. Set menu background. Click the Media tab on the lower right part of the interface to switch to the Media window. Drag and drop a movie or a picture to the Drop Zone of the selected menu template as the menu background. If you don't want a background picture or video on your menu, you can skip this step. D. Add movies. Click the Add button on the lower left of the interface, select Add Movie, and drag and drop the movies from the lower right pane onto your DVD menu one by one. Each time after you drop a movie, you will see a text box where you can rename the movie. You can also choose to add submenus and add movies to each submenu. If you click the Structure button, you can view the structure of your DVD project and find how many movies you have added. E. After you finished adding movies to your DVD project, you can click the Play button to preview your DVD project and see what it will be like on your TV. If the preview is satisfactory, you can just click the File menu on the top of your screen, and select "Burn DVD" to start burning your DVD movie! After the above two steps, you will get a highly optimized DVD movie out of the original DVD movies. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:58:00 GMT http://mactheripper.spoonylife.com/how-to-protect-backup-and-enhance-your-dvd-discs-with-mac-660.html Since the late 1990s when the first DVD discs appeared on the scene, it has brought profound impact upon the way we live and think. Nowadays, we may more or less own some DVD discs, which may be those purchased from stores, those received as special gifts from friends, those taken by your camcorder or even those you burn as data backup. The protection of DVD discs is commonplace in many people's eye. However, we are likely to have overlooked the fact that overtime, DVDs can become scratched, damaged and even completely unusable. Odds are that we use a brand new DVD disc smoothly for the first time, and the next time we play it, it fails to work normally. I am sure no one is willing to see this happen. As a matter of fact, we can avoid the frustrating situation if we pay attention to the following tips: 1. Handle discs by the outer edge or the center hole. Keep dirt, foreign material, fingerprints, smudges, and liquids from the disc and wipe them with a clean cotton fabric in a straight line from the center of the disc toward the outer edge. 2. Store discs upright (book style) in original jewel cases that are specified for CDs and DVDs and not store discs horizontally for a long time (years). 3. Leave discs in their spindle or jewel case to minimize the effects of environmental changes. Store in a cool, dry, dark environment in which the air is clean -- relative humidity should be in the range 20% - 50% (RH) and temperature should be in the range 4°C - 20°C. Do not expose recordable discs to prolonged sunlight or other sources of UV light. 4. Use a non solvent-based felt-tip permanent marker to mark the label side of the disc. Do not write or mark in the data area of the disc (area where the laser reads). Protecting your DVDs is essential of course, while maximizing their value is of greater importance. Therefore, to make a step further, you can do more to backup and enhance them. Commercial DVD movies are copyright protected. You are not allowed to copy them to your hard drive. However, we sometimes do need some DVDs for personal use or recreation. In this case, we can turn to a DVD ripping program for help. Here I'd like to share HandBrake with you, since my OS is based on Mac. It can extract any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted) to your Mac within a few steps. Download and install HandBrake and insert the DVD you wish to convert into your Mac's DVD drive. If your Mac's DVD Player application opens, exit the DVD Player application. Open the HandBrake application and select Detected volume and click on Open. Wait as HandBrake detects the titles on your DVD. Leave the default settings or choose the settings you wish. For best quality, select Video: 2-pass encoding. The whole ripping process is within a few simple steps. But since it is totally free, it does have some limitations. Firstly, it only supports MP4 format. If you want to rip DVD to a lot more popular video formats, HandBrake offers no solution. Secondly, I sometimes center on more video editing functions. However, HandBrake frustrates me a lot. Thirdly, not all DVD's are supported by HandBrake. Those with protection methods other than CSS are not supported and must be handled externally with third-party software. In terms of these three points, I made a Google search for other Mac DVD ripping programs, and Wondershare DVD Ripper for Mac came to my attention, though, unlike HandBrake, it is shareware. What attracts me most is that it supports various video and even audio formats including those utilized by online video sharing sites like YouTube and those compatible with portable devices. Moreover, it offers lots of pretty good video editing functions. For instance, if you want to get a short clip or a wonderful scene from a DVD movie, you can use the movie length trimming function of this program to select the clip or scene to rip in the precision of second. Sometimes, we may want to burn to a blank DVD disc our favorite DVD movies, video clips, music collection and so forth for backup and enhancement. The built-in burning application for Mac OS would be definitely your best choice. For instance, if you want to burn video files to DVD, simple follow the steps below. Open and launch the Burn application. Firstly, choose a format in the popup. Burn can create four types of video disks. They are VCD, SVCD, DVD, DivX respectively. Here just tick DVD. Secondly, select some video files from your Mac. Most video files are supported except that some protected QuickTime files may not work. Thirdly, drop the selected files in the list. If the files are already the right format they will be added. Otherwise, Burn will ask to convert them to the right format. At last, click on Burn to burn the disk. Note: By clicking on the expand button, you can choose options how to handle recording. Burn will save these options and they will be used for future disks. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:28:00 GMT http://mactheripper.spoonylife.com/how-to-rip-dvd-movies-to-ipod-touch-ipod-nano-ipod-classic-on-mac-os-x-leopard-compatible-643.html Want to rip DVD to iPod on Mac OS X? Want to enjoy your favorite DVD movies on iPod touch, iPod classic, iPod nano and other iPod video players with the help of your Mac machine? To put DVD movies on iPod, you need a DVD to iPod ripper program to help you rip DVD to iPod MP4 video files or iPod MP3/M4A audio files, and then drag them to your iPod player with the help of iTunes Library. The majority of DVD to iPod conversion tools are for Windows, so if your OS is based on Mac, you will need such a DVD to iPod ripper for Mac users. Wondershare DVD to iPod converter for Mac is a powerful yet easy to use Mac DVD to iPod converter specially designed for Mac OS users, which is also rich in DVD movie editing options. To convert DVD to iPod on your Mac OS, you can download Wondershare DVD to iPod Converter for Mac first, and follow the steps below to put a DVD movie on your iPod. Below are the steps to rip DVD movies to iPod touch, iPod nano, iPod classic with Wondershare DVD to iPod Converter for Mac: Step 1: Import DVD Movies Click the Load DVD button, select the folder of your DVD movie, and click OK. If the DVD 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 DVD movie is imported, you can see all the DVD chapters/titles in it, and then you can check the DVD chapters/titles you want to rip to your iPod. If you want to rip the whole movie, you can just keep all the DVD titles/chapters checked. Step 2: Output Settings Before ripping DVD movies to iPod video files, there are a few settings you should make: 1. Select the iPod Video format from the Format drop-down list(Apart from ripping DVD to iPod video, it can even rip DVD to iPod audio). 2. Click the Settings button to make 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 DVD title/chapter in the Output Filename field, and select the DVD subtitle and audio track for the DVD titles/chapters. Note: You can check the "Merger 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: Start Conversion Click the Start button to start ripping DVD movies to iPod. Now you can just go talk a walk and wait till the DVD to iPod conversion is completed. After that, you can just transfer the created files to your iPod with iTunes. Tip 1: Trim Movie If you just want to rip a clip from your DVD movie, you can click the Trim icon to capture the 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. Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:31:00 GMT http://mactheripper.spoonylife.com/how-to-rip-dvd-movie-on-mac-with-handbrake-642.html HandBrake is a free DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter for Mac OS X 10.3.9 and later. Follow these steps to use HandBrake to convert your DVDs into MP4 format for storage and playback on your hard drive. 1. Download and install HandBrake. Insert the DVD you wish to convert into your Mac's DVD drive. If your Mac's DVD Player application opens, quit the DVD Player application. 2. Run HandBrake. Select Detected volume. Click Open and wait as HandBrake detects the titles on your DVD. HandBrake will detect all the titles on the DVD. If you're ripping a movie, just select the longest title in the list. If you're ripping a TV show or something with multiple episodes on one disc, then select the episode you want. 3. Leave the default settings or choose the settings you prefer. For best quality, tick 2-pass encoding. This takes twice as long to encode, but it improves the video quality and doesn't make the file any larger. In Video Quality, tick Average bitrate and enter 400. This can be as high as 768, but unless you squint you probably won't see much difference. Higher bitrate = higher quality video = larger file size. In Audio - Sample rate (Hz), select 44100. The Sample rate is entirely up to you. Higher sample rate = higher quality audio = larger file size. In Bitrate (kbps), you can keep the default of 128, or select a rate up to 160. Higher rate = higher audio quality = larger file size. 4. Click Rip. Encoding time depends on the speed of your Mac, the length of the movie, and whether you selected 2-pass encoding. Handbrake will display a progress bar. When the progress bar indicates Done, exit HandBrake. If you are going to watch the converted MP4 file on iPod/iPhone, run iTunes and find the .mp4 file that HandBrake created and drag it into your iTunes library, or select Add to Library... from the File menu and select the encoded movie. Tips: 1. If the converted MP4 file is still very large, for example more than 4.0 GB, you can turn to a compression program for help. 2. If you want more powerful functions such as movie trimming, video cropping, selecting DVD chapters/titles, joining/merging more than one DVD chapter/title, selecting audio track and subtitle, or want to rip DVD to more mobile devices on Mac, you can try this DVD Ripper for Mac. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:42:00 GMT http://mactheripper.spoonylife.com/how-to-make-a-copy-of-dvd-movies-on-mac-os-x-include-leopard-621.html A few days ago, I wanted to make a copy of the DVD movie I have just bought on my Mac machine and I found a tool named Wondershare DVD Copy for Mac. I only intended to backup my movie, but I found it could also remove DVD protections, LOL, which is great because I could make more copies of my movies. So I got lots of the movies I collected copied onto new DVD discs and removed their protection mechanisms. I would say it is a very easy and fast tool. Worth a try! Here is the home page of this Mac copy tool: http://www.mac-dvd-ripper.com/mac-dvd-copy.html It only takes a few easy steps to use it: Step 1: Select DVD Source In the Select Source field, select Select source DVD folder. Then browse your computer hard disc and select your DVD movie (either in a folder or from your DVD ROM). Step 2: Select DVD Copy Method In the Select DVD Copy Method field to select a method to output the selected DVD movie: If you want to output your DVD movie to a folder on your hard disc, you can select the Output DVD Folder option, and specify a directory to save the copied DVD movie. If you want to directly burn your DVD movie to a new DVD disc, you can just select the DVD ROM where you have inserted a blank DVD disc. Step 3: Program Settings (Optional) Set Buffer Directory: Select a folder on a hard disc that has relatively big free space to store the temporary files. Select Language: Select an interface language for the program. Step 4: Start Copying DVD Click the Start button to start copying your DVD movie and/or burning it to a new DVD disc. If you are copying a DVD disc from your DVD ROM to a new DVD disc, you will be asked to insert a blank DVD disc. If so, you can just take the original DVD disc out and insert a blank DVD disc. Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:27:00 GMT http://mactheripper.spoonylife.com/how-to-rip-dvd-movies-on-mac-os-x-leopard-included-612.html Wanna rip your DVD movies for iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP and a lot more mobile devices on Mac OS? Wondershare DVD Ripper for Mac offers the best solution for Mac OS users who want to rip their DVD to almost all video formats for most popular mobile devices, complete with options to select DVD audio track and subtitle, crop DVD video, trim DVD length, set video effects and so on. To rip a DVD movie on Mac, you can download Wondershare DVD Ripper for Mac from http://www.mac-dvd-ripper.com/mac-dvd-ripper.html and follow the steps below: Step 1. Import DVD Movies 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 DVD movie is loaded, you can see all the chapters and titles in it, and then you can check the DVD chapters and titles you want to rip. If you want to rip the whole DVD movie, you can just keep all the DVD titles or chapters checked. Step 2. Output Settings After your DVD movie is loaded, you can start to set output settings: 1. Select an output format from the Format drop-down list. Just select an format according to the device you want to put to. 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 DVD title/chapter in the Output Filename field, and select the DVD subtitle and audio track for the DVD titles/chapters. Note: You can check the Merger into one file option to join all the selected DVD titles/chapters into one file instead of creating a separated file for each DVD title/chapter. Step 3. Click the Start button to start the conversion. And all you need to do now is to wait for the conversion to be finished. The remaining time will be shown on conversion window for your reference. Tip 1. Trim Movie If you just want to rip 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 your 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 video crop area by dragging the crop frame or setting the four crop parameters (Top, Bottom, Left and Right). Tip 3. Movie Effect If you want to change the original video effect, you can click the Effect icon to set the video brightness, contrast, saturation, and even audio volume. You can also choose to apply a special effect to your movie video from the available effects including Gray, Emboss and Negative. Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:31:00 GMT