Importing DVDs

[Richard Harrington]

Mac the Ripper
DVD x DV
Cinematize

“just google it”

[John Czerwinski]

check out http://www.squared5.com

works great

[13]

Glad you joined the pasture her on the cow.

This question is extremely common here on the cow. In the future, please do a search before posting a question.

[Gabriela Enis]

Thank you very much for the answers.

Yesterday I used Mac the Ripper but I still cannot get any sound with pictures. Why is that?
I will try the other suggestions and then I’ll report back.

In response to zrb123. Yes after sending my first post I realised I could search the topic and I found a lot of info. Unfortuately because I’m new in these matters I couldn’t follow the explanations clearly so I’m glad I’m getting some feed back myself.

All the best,

Pepa

[Paul Crowe]

Hi Pepa

Mac the ripperjust rips the files off the disc. It won’t transcode them to anything you’ll be able to edit with. Some one mentioned to check out http://www.squared5.com. I’d agree got here and MPEG streamclip use this to make turn the files into something you can edit with like DV. But there’s it’s a brilliant (and free) program with many options to choose from.

Just make sure you’ve got the mpeg2 download for quicktime other wise Mpeg streamclip won’t work properly.

Good luck.
Tankboy

[David Sikes]

Mac the Ripper is just a DVD EXTRACTER. It does no conversion.

I use Handbrake (https://handbrake.m0k.org/?article=download), but my boss uses MPEG Streamclip. They’re both free.

Both work very simply:

Select the Video_TS file in the DVD

Choose your settings (Handbrake has a ton of presets: from iPod to Quicktime to MPEG 2)

Click start and let it crank away!