If you have an expansive collection of DVDs saved on your computer or on physical discs, a great way to make backups of your collection is to rip your DVD library onto an external hard drive.Some people do not even care about making backup digital copies of their DVD library; rather, they only care about saving precious hard drive space on their computers if their movies are saved on their. The CD/DVD Library is the ultimate database to manage your Compact Disc or DVD collection. With the CD/DVD Library, you can search through your CD/DVD collection for various artists, movie titles.

Have lots of DVD movies and want to convert them to a digital format for watching on PCs or portable media players? In this article, we'll show you how to effortlessly digitize your DVD library to videos for play anywhere you like.

To digitize DVD, you need a DVD ripper that can convert DVD to videos bypassing DVD copy protection. Here Aimersoft DVD conversion software is highly recommended to help you finish your work. With it, you can convert DVD to almost all regular video formats like MP4, MOV, MKV, FLV, WMV, AVI, etc. and even extract MP3, WMA, FLAC, OGG, etc. audio from DVD movies. In addition, 150+ video presets for portable devices like iPhone, iPad, iPod, PSP, HTC, Samsung, Archos, Zune, etc. are provided to let your get videos with the best settings to fit your device. Furthermore, the built-in video editor allows you to easily get desired video part and effects. If you're using a Mac, please turn to Aimersoft Mac DVD ripping software, which enables you to digitize DVD on Mac OS X (including Lion and Mountain Lion). Now download the right version and check out the guide below.

Tip: If you want to copy your DVD to DVD folder, please turn to Aimersoft DVD Copy.

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The guide below uses DVD Ripper for Windows screenshots. The steps to rip video files from DVD on Mac is the same. Just make sure you have got the right version according to your situation.

1Add DVD movies

Insert the DVD disc into your computer's hard disk and launch Aimersoft DVD Ripper. Then click Load DVD to add the DVD files. As you can see, you can select the titles you want to rip and merge them into one big file. At the bottom, you can select your desired subtitle and audio track. And by clicking Edit, you can trim.crop/rotate videos, adjust video effects, add watermarks, etc.

2Choose output profiles

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Click 'Profile' to select an output format. You can either choose MP4, MOV, MKV, FLV, WMV, AVI, MP3, WMA, OGG, etc. Clone drone in the danger zone free no download. as the output format or select the icon of a device/software to get videos with optimized settings for a certain device/software like iPhone, iPad, iPod, HTC, PSP, Xbox, etc.

3Start ripping

The last step is to click Start to being ripping your DVD to digital videos. When the conversion finishes, click Find Target to get the ripped videos and enjoy them anywhere you like.

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Below is the video tutorial on how to digitize DVD movies:

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I used http://www.DigiRAW.com to get all mine digitised to Mp4.. just under 1000 completed in 2 weeks and with metadata. Love viewing my whole library on my Apple TV, so easy and the dvds packed up out of the way. Dvd burner app for mac imovie. I recommend them for the Uk.
I have tried Handbrake and Wondershare DVD ripper. They are both great! You can try them.
Handbrake
http://handbrake.fr
Wondershare DVD ripper
http://www.wondershare.com/pro/dvd-ripper-platinum.html
GM my good friend, here is what I have discovered:
(I literally have all programs/software you can think of: CladDVD, HandBrake, DVDFab8, DVD Shrink, Img Burn, Make MKV, Magix Movie Edit, AnyDVD, DVD decrypter. and i still have all of these)I struggled with this for a while myself. I knew multiple ways to do it, and I have done it for multiple formats. I wanted to import all my DVDs (about 200) into my HTPC server via Windows Media Center. I finally found the answer with an add-in that does the compressing, formatting, etc. for you: 'Auto Rip N Compress' http://madeformediacenter.com/m4mc/app.aspx?id=849f978d-f206-4d6a-a503-fad1c1a86dcb
If you use Windows Media Center, even better. If not, It still can work pretty simply. Once you get the initial set up done (about 5-10 min.) all you reeally need to do is switch discs to rip.
You don't even need to hit start once the program is open.
It may take a little tinkering, but it will work. I love it. Goodluck
GM my good friend, here is what I have discovered:
(I literally have all programs/software you can think of: CladDVD, HandBrake, DVDFab8, DVD Shrink, Img Burn, Make MKV, Magix Movie Edit, AnyDVD, DVD decrypter. and i still have all of these)I struggled with this for a while myself. I knew multiple ways to do it, and I have done it for multiple formats. I wanted to import all my DVDs (about 200) into my HTPC server via Windows Media Center. I finally found the answer with an add-in that does the compressing, formatting, etc. for you: 'Auto Rip N Compress' http://madeformediacenter.com/m4mc/app.aspx?id=849f978d-f206-4d6a-a503-fad1c1a86dcb
If you use Windows Media Center, even better. If not, It still can work pretty simply. Once you get the initial set up done (about 5-10 min.) all you reeally need to do is switch discs to rip.
You don't even need to hit start once the program is open.
It may take a little tinkering, but it will work. I love it. Goodluck
GM my good friend, here is what I have discovered:
(I literally have all programs/software you can think of: CladDVD, HandBrake, DVDFab8, DVD Shrink, Img Burn, Make MKV, Magix Movie Edit, AnyDVD, DVD decrypter. and i still have all of these)I struggled with this for a while myself. I knew multiple ways to do it, and I have done it for multiple formats. I wanted to import all my DVDs (about 200) into my HTPC server via Windows Media Center. I finally found the answer with an add-in that does the compressing, formatting, etc. for you: 'Auto Rip N Compress' http://madeformediacenter.com/m4mc/app.aspx?id=849f978d-f206-4d6a-a503-fad1c1a86dcb
If you use Windows Media Center, even better. If not, It still can work pretty simply. Once you get the initial set up done (about 5-10 min.) all you reeally need to do is switch discs to rip.
You don't even need to hit start once the program is open.
It may take a little tinkering, but it will work. I love it. Goodluck
To go straight from a commercial DVD (like movies) where there may only be the one main title you want to grab, a lot of times you can use DVDDecrypter to rip the movie (it also decrypts it as the name suggests). Then, I use Handbrake to encode it. I've done over 1000 (I lost count over the past year or so). If you're doing TV shows (let's say you have one season of your favorite show on DVD), it can be a bit of a pain, as there are multiple titles per disc you're going to want to grab. For this, I actually make a backup copy of the disc using DVDShrink, burn that ISO to a DVD-RW, then Handbrake can rip directly from the copy, as the encryption should be deleted on the copy. When I started digitizing my collection, I researched formats (at first I was prepared to go with MKV, but found it wasn't as compatible with all players) and decided on MP4, as it is compatible with AppleTV, Windows Media Center, Western Digital's WDTV player, and of course Windows Media Player. I don't use any other devices other than a Blackberry, and MP4 will play fine most of the time in that media player too. An average 1.5 to 2 hour movie tends to be about 800MB, although some people would want better quality. I use 1000KB/sec for the encoding quality in Handbrake. It doesn't take up too much space that way, although I have two copies--one to use and the other is purely a backup--I