Short guide on ripping, editing, burning and copying videos on MAC

1. BURNING MEDIA FILES ON
CD AND DVD ON A MAC
PART II
Burning Videos on DVD
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2. DVD & VIDEOS
• DVD is the most popular media for archiving and exchanging
movies and videos
• The capacity of the SVCD is to low
• Blue Ray is coming but not fully established in mass market
Find out about the tools and techniques involved in
Ripping, Editing, Authoring and Burning
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3. COPYING DVDS
Use Disk Utility for non protected DVDs:
• Insert DVD
• Close DVD player again
• DVD symbol should be on Desktop
• Select the DVD in the left panel of Disk
Utility
• Click “New Image”
• In the “Save As” Box choose “DVD/CD
master” and “no encryption”
• The new master image will appear in Disk
Utility
• Eject the original DVD, click on the new
image, then click on burn in the top panel
• In the “Burn” box choose the speed
(choose a little slower than max.) and
select “Verify Burned Data”
• Click Burn - DONE!
What if it is protected? See how that works
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4. RIPPING A PROTECTED DVD
• In combination with the VLC Player Fairmount
can support decryption, Fairmount alone does
not work. Be aware of quality issues and
handling
• Some vendors like wondershare, leawo etc.
have language versions of their DVD Rippers,
that can decrypt copy protection. The Wondershare DVD
Ripper
pavtube iMedia Converter for MAC Leawo DVD Ripper
rips DVD and BlueRay - protected or not. !! Pavtube iMedia !!
Edit, Crop or Merge before you burn?
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5. EDIT, CROP, MERGE VIDEO FILES
To prepare a video for presentation, burning or sharing, some editing is very
important. However an advanced Video Editing Software is usually unnecessary, as
the important functions are included in your common mid-priced Video Converter.
• With adjustment of saturation, brightness and contrast overall
quality can be improved and differences between videos can be
evened out.
• With a cropping tool, black frames can be removed or the focus
of home-made movies can be improved.
• With cutting tools, parts of the video can be cut off and
fragments merged to one video file.
Create a DVD from your Video Files? DVD
Authoring is not hard:
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6. DVD AUTHORING - 1.
Whether you are making a “Mix-DVD” of your favorite movie scenes or create a DVD
of the last family event you need to make it playable in a DVD player.
• DVD Creation Software helps you creating a combined MPEG2 multiplex
video-stream out the data you provide (the VIDEO_TS”-File on the DVD)
• To make it viewable on a DVD player a special UDF file format is needed
• MPEG video files have to be converted before they can be burned to DVD.
Common UDF Formats:
Blue-ray and DVD(AVCHD) use UDF 2.5 or UDF 2.6
DVD Videos are in UDF 1.02 with an ISO 9660 and an UDF 1.02 File System
Philips DVD+VR uses UDF 1.02 with ISO 9660
Menu , Subtitles, Watermarks ...
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7. DVD AUTHORING - 2.
• With common DVD Creation Software you can add
important features to your DVD.
•A Menu can be added to allow selecting a specific
scene or movie to play
• A Watermark can protect your copyright or add a
personal touch
• Many more options are available depending on the
software used.
And now, what do I need to get started?
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8. SUMMARY
1. If you just want to download Videos and convert them to play on your MAC
and/or mobile device you will be fine with a simple video converter. You are
less flexible when you get one with a limited set of input and output formats.
2. If you also want to be able to occasionally put your DVD (or Blue Ray)
Movies on your hard drive, you also need a DVD Ripper or a combined
product (often Video Converter Plus)
3. If you want to create a DVD with a functioning menu and/or other features
known from professional DVDs, you will need an Authoring Software or
DVD Creator. (it often makes sense to stick with one manufacturer for all
parts of the workflow)
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9. THANKS!
Check out our website for reviews, tricks and deals on great media
software for MACs: www.mac-media-software.com
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