DVD Ripper for Mac

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Want to convert your DVD movies for iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Zune, PSP and a lot more mobile devices on Mac operation system? Wondershare DVD Ripper for Mac is a great solution for Mac OS users who want to convert 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, and set video effects and so on. To rip a DVD movie, you can download Wondershare DVD Ripper for Mac and follow the steps below:

Step1.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 movie is loaded, 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





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

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 “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: 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 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.

Mac DVD Ripper software

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How to convert MOD and  TOD files generated by JVC camcorders on Windows and Mac?


JVC camcorder users are usually troubled by MOD and TOD  files that generated by their JVC camcorders, because the two formats generally  can not be accepted directly by most video players or editors. If you want to  enjoy these video files on your computer or portable devices, or even do some  further editing with video editing software, you have to convert them to some  other common formats previously. This article here will introduce you how to  convert MOD and TOD files generated by JVC camcorders on Windows and Mac？If you are in need, please go ahead with it.


Part 1: About MOD and  TOD:

Both MOD and TOD are the informal  tapeless video formats produced by certain digital  camcorders. And both of them have never been given to any meaning explanations  or official names by their creators JVC or Panasonic. The differences between  them lie in: MOD are used by JVC, Panasonic, and  Canon in some models of camcorders, such as JVC GZ-MG130, GZ-MS100U, GZ-MG255,  Panasonic SDR-SW20, SDR-SW21, SDR-S26, Canon FS100, FS200, FS21 and so on,  while TOD is only used by JVC camcorders, like JVC GZ-HD7, GZ-HD5, GZ-HD6,  GZ-HD30, and GZ-HD40; Moreover, MOD is only used for standard definition video  files, while TOD is exclusively used for high definition video files.

Part  2: How to convert MOD and  TOD files on Windows?

Step  1: Download, install and run Pavtube TOD Converter

Step  2: Import video files, select output format and specify store path

Add your recorded MOD or TOD files to this  program, and select whatever formats you need from the drop-down list of "Format". If you want to play on your  cell phone, you can select 3GP; to play on iPod or iPhone, you can select MP4; to share online, you can select  FLV. Meanwhile, press output folder to specify where to locate the output  files, or you can use the store path set by default. Further more, suppose you  need to join several files to be one, you can check "Merge into one file" to realize it.



Step  3: Set advanced settings:

You are allowed to do some advanced settings  according to your own requirements. In this section, you are able to set parameters for  output video, the bigger value, the better quality, but the larger size.



Step  4: Convert

Pavtube provides you a friendly interface while converting, and all the conversion  info can be found out in the following window, like total progress, the time  have spent, the file size have been generated, as well as the possible left  time and the entire size probably produced during the conversion.




Tips:

1. The converting speed of this software is 1-2  times faster than the similar converters. Batch conversion can be done in a few  minutes. Merge multiple files into one file is also available.

2. It does not have the audio-video sync issues.

3. With exception of adding text as watermark,  images, GIF animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize  the picture-in-picture effect.

4. You can use the "Trim" function to select  certain video clips to convert. And you can also take advantage of the "Crop"  function to remove black edges or change the screen size.

Part  3: How to convert MOD and  TOD files on Mac?

Step  1: Download, install and run Pavtube TOD Converter for Mac.




Step  2: Select formats and do advanced settings

Add your recorded MOD or TOD files to it, and  select whatever formats you need from the drop-down list of "Format". If you want to edit with iMovie, you can select MOV or MP4; to play on your cell phone,  you can select 3GP; to play on iPod or iPhone, you can select MP4; to share online, you can select  FLV.

Meanwhile, you are allowed to do some advanced  settings according to your own requirements. For instance, you can reset the  screen size or change the bit rate. Increase the bit rate, video quality will  be improved, while file size will be enlarged. Decrease the bit rate, file size  will be reduced, while quality is inferior to the original.



Step  3: Export To

Set which destination folder the output files  will be exported to. You can export them to the default path or specify a path  to locate them by clicking "Browse".

Step  4: Convert

Tips: Introduce you two more special functions to optimize your conversion.

Suppose to add logos  or images on your videos to show your personalized settings or to reserve your  own copyright? The following step will show you the methods of adding  watermarks.

1. Add watermarks to your video

There  are four ways to add watermarks, including adding text, adding images, adding  GIF animations, and especially adding videos. Don’t you think a  picture-in-picture function is really wonderful?



2. Audio Replace
If you want to add  some soft music or some other audio resources to match your recorded videos,  you can have a try about the function of "Audio Replace" to replace the  original audio in your videos. You can click "Browse" to select which audio  resources will be used to take place of the original audio.



Hope  this article could definitely relieve your format troubles while handling MOD  or TOD video files no matter you are a Windows user or a Mac user.