How to Rip DVD to iPod, MP4, AVI, WMV, etc. and edit the video with CROP,ZOOM,TRIM functions.
With the development of technology, various of media portable players emerged and have enriched our daily life greatly. We enjoy our favorite movies and music with all kinds of portable players such as iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, mobile phone and so on. At the same time, DVD players gradually lost its dominance. People would like to enjoy their movies and music with smart portable players anytime and anywhere rather than just stay at home or carry big DVD players when outside. Thus, we need to convert our DVD movies to our portable players or any other formats. Now I will introduce you good ways of ripping DVD movies to iPod, MP4, AVI, WMV and other popular video and audio formats in high quality. What’s more, during the conversion, you may edit your videos with crop, zoom and trim functions.
Part 1: How to rip DVD to iPod, MP4, AVI, WMV and other popular video and audio formats?
Part 2: How to edit your video with crop, zoom and trim functions?
Part 1: How to rip DVD to iPod, MP4, AVI, WMV and other popular video and audio formats?
To rip your DVD to other video and audio formats, you only need a good software. I strongly recommend you Nidesoft DVD Ripper. This DVD Ripper can rip DVD files to almost all popular video and audio formats in high quality at fast speed.
You may download this software here:
http://www.nidesoft.com/downloads/dvd-ripper.exeAnd get more information about it here:
http://www.nidesoft.com/dvd-ripper.htmlAfter download and install this powerful software, only three steps are needed to complete the conversion.
Step 1: load DVD movies
a. Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive
b. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie and open it. (This DVD Ripper can rip copyright protected DVD movies, but you should remember that it’s illegal to rip DVD for any business purposes).
After add your movie, you can click any title or chapter to preview it in the preview window on the right. Then you can choose any titles or chapters you want to convert by click the check boxes before them. In this way, you can choose to convert DVD with the entire movie or just convert one or several chapters.
Step 2: you may customize the output video with its full functions.
Audio Track: Select an audio track from the available audio tracks of your DVD movie.
Subtitle: Common DVD movies have several subtitles such as English, Chinese, French, etc. You can choose one language you prefer or select “None” to delete subtitle.
Profile: Click the button and show the list of profiles, you can select the profiles you want. For example, if you want to convert your DVD movies to YouTube, just select “YouTube video (*.flv)”. Or you may choose the profile according to your portable player. For example, if you want to convert your DVD movies to your iPod video player, click the “iPod video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)”.
Settings: If you want to customize the output video’s quality, you can click the settings button to open the settings window and set video resolution, video bitrate, audio channels, audio bitrate.
Destination: Click the browse button and select a location on your computer for the output video files.
Merge: A regular DVD movie has several chapters, you can convert several chapters into one by click the blank box before merge into one file. Click the check box before any chapter you want and merge them into one file.
Step 3: now you can start your conversion.
After the settings finished, you can just click the convert button to start your conversion. You can view the conversion speed at the bottom. The conversion will be completed in few minutes.
Ok, finished, so easy!
Part 2: How to edit your video with crop, zoom and trim functions?
This powerful software enable you edit your videos during the conversion, you may use crop, effect, trim functions to make your perfect videos. Now I will introduce you how to use crop, zoom and trim functions with this DVD Ripper.
1. Crop DVD video
Your DVD video may have black edge, you can use this Crop function to remove them. Click Crop button, in the crop window click the Crop Mode dropdown list, there are four options available including no crop, cut off all, cut off top and bottom and cut off left and right. You can choose one of them according to your need. For example, if you want to remove the black side on the top and bottom, select cut off top and bottom.
2. Select Zoom Mode
After crop your video you may select Zoom Mode, click the Zoom Mode dropdown list, there are three options available including Letterbox, Pan and Scan and Full Screen.
a. Full Screen
If you want to enjoy your cropped video in full screen, select Full Screen Mode. In this mode, the converted video will be stretched and the picture ratio will change.
b. Letterbox
If you want to enjoy your videos with the original aspect ratio, you may select letterbox. In this mode the aspect ratio remains, the blank place will add black edge.
c. Full Screen
If you don’t want the black edge, you still have other choice, select Pan and Scan, you will get a video in full screen, the ratio remains while some were cut.
3. Trim DVD video
as you have selected the clips to convert, you can trim any segment of the clips by clicking the trim button. You can move the slide below the screen to trim any segment and the blue line will be the captured parts.
Ok, you have ripped your DVD movies to other format you want and you also finished the edition of your movie, now just enjoy it. Wish you enjoy your days. If you still have problem about it, you may send email to:
support@nidesoft.com I am glad to help you solve your problem.
