How to Rip DVD to iTunes on Mac OS X (Lion included)

July 18, 2012 - PRLog -- If you got some awesome commercial DVDs and then you might want to rip and import these DVD movies to iTunes on your Mac (Snow Leopard, Lion included), for transferring these DVD movies to your iPod, iPad, iPhone to reduce the boredom of travel. However, iTunes doesn't read DVD movies at all. So as to rip and import DVD to iTunes on Mac, you need a third party app or you will definitely lose it.

This article guides you in ripping your DVD video to iTunes compatible formats on Mac, preserving the quality of your DVD movies and never brings any damage to your cherished gems. It's go on with a professional Mac app named DVD Ripper for Mac, allowing you to convert both commercial DVDs and non-commercial DVDs to iTunes formats like MP4, MOV and M4V with just 4 simple steps.

Step 1. Download and Install Mac DVD to iTunes Ripper

Download and install DVD to iTunes Mac app. After the installation, launch this program.


Step 2. Load DVD Movies

You have two options to import your DVDs to the Mac DVD ripper to get started:

1. Drag & drop DVD disc icon on the desktop to this Mac app.

2. Head to "File" menu > choose "Load DVD" or "Load DVD files" to locate the DVD movies (including commercial DVDs and homemade DVDs) you want to add.

Tips: This smart DVD to iTunes Ripper for Mac allows you to rip the whole DVD or certain title/chapter of the movie:

1. Move the pointer over the thumbnail of DVD or video you want to trim and choose "Splitting" from the pop-up menu.

Or go to "Edit" menu and choose "Splitting". You can also trim the DVD movie to get your favorite segment of the movie and put it on your new iPod classic for playback again and again.


Step 3. Select "MOV" as output format from the dropdown format list

To copy DVD to your iTunes, you need choose an iTunes supported format like MOV, MP4 and M4V. Here take MOV for example. Open the format list of the DVD to iTunes Mac app, go to "General Video Formats" and choose "MOV" as your output format.

If you want to import the output video to Apple devices like iPad, iPod, iPhone and more for convenient playback, you can choose your output format according to which the name of you Apple device. The Mac program has offered some helpful optimized settings for iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV and so on. The output videos could be imported to iTunes automatically if you choose any item of Apple Devices as the output video format.

Before the video conversion begins, you can edit your videos briefly.

* Trim large videos into small segments.
* Adust the zoom, making sure that the output videos could fit on your devices perfectly.
* Crop video black borders.
* Adjust video effects.


Step 4. Start to convert DVD to iTunes on Mac OS X

Hit "Convert" and this DVD to iTunes Mac Ripper will finish the rest of the ripping task automatically!
When the conversion is done, connect Apple device with Mac and sync the target videos in the iTunes to the device. You can now enjoy movies on your Mac without inserting DVD disc or put them on your iPod for playback anytime, anywhere!

Tip: If you only need import non-commercial DVD movies to iTunes Mac, you can use freeware like MPEG Streamclip (only supports non-commercial DVDs with proper codec installed) to do so.


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