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Aimersoft DVD Ripper is professional DVD ripping software that help you copy DVD with 1:1 quality. With this best DVD Ripper software, you can easily rip DVD to AVI, MP4, WMV, MOV, MPG, MPEG, 3GP, 3GPP, MPG, ASF, FLV, VOB, WMA, M4A, MP3, etc. with super fast speed. and it supports all common portable players, with this best DVD Ripper software you can put your DVD movie on iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, Archos, cell phone, etc. It is the best DVD Ripper for you among all DVD ripper software.

Here is the guide that will show you how to use Aimersoft DVD Ripper to copy, convert DVD to other video formats; it includes the following five sections:
1 How to convert DVD to iPhone/iPod/PSP/Zune/Apple TV/PS3/Phone/Xbox 360/Zen?
2 How to edit, combine and crop DVD movies?
3 How to rip audio from DVD to MP3 for iPod nano, shuffle and other MP3 players?
4 How to put DVD clips on Youtube, Myspace?
5 How to import DVD to Windows Movie Maker?

[edit] Steps

Part1. How to convert a DVD to iPhone/iPod/PSP/Zune/Apple TV/Phone/Xbox/Zen/AVI/MPEG

Step1. Insert your DVD disc into your DVD-Rom, then run the software, click “Load DVD” button and add the DVD file. You can also add DVD/IFO from your hard disk by clicking “Load File”.

Step2. Aimersoft can convert DVD into various video formats, such as MPEG-4, AVI, WMV, FLV, 3GP, VOB, etc. Click the “Format” drop down list to select a format. If you want to copy a DVD to your computer in 1:1 lossless quality, select “Lossless DVD Copy (*.vob)”.

If you don’t know much about mobile players, just select a format according to the name of your mobile player. For example, if you want to copy a DVD to the new iPhone, just select “iPhone Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)”, and the default setting works great. If you want to customize the output video, you can click the “Settings” button next to the format field to open the Settings window, and set the video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc. See the figure below:

Step3. Select Subtitle and Audio
Regular DVD movies usually have several subtitles such as English, French, German, etc. You can select one you prefer. You can also delete the subtitles by selecting “No Subtitle”. Selecting Audio is the same.

After the above steps, click “Start” to start conversion.

If you want to copy the DVD to your iPod, this software has a free iPod Copy Manager; it can help you transfer the converted video to an iPod directly without iTunes. Just connect your iPod to the computer, click “Tools” -> “iPod Copy Manager”, then you will see a pop up window (See the figure below) - the left pane is the video and music list on your computer, the right pane is the file list on your iPod. (You can also copy files from iPod to computer; it’s useful if your computer crashes or you lose the iTunes library.) Select the files you want to sync and click the right arrow button to finish the transfer.

For PSP, this software also provides a PSP Video Manager - click “Tool”-> PSP Video Manager. All PSP firmware version (former 3.0 or 3.0 later) is fully supported, and the steps to transfer files to PSP are very similar.
Part2. How to edit, combine and crop a DVD movie
After you load the DVD file: if you want to cut the black edges of the DVD movie, you click the “Crop” button, and you'll see a pop up window (See the figure below). There is a frame in a dashed line around the movie video; you can drag it to cut the black edges.

Additionally, you can click the Crop drop-down list to select a Crop model you prefer, for example: “Cut off top and bottom black edges”. You can even type the number in the box to cut off black border accurately.

If you want to combine several DVD chapters into one file, then there is a check box titled “Merge into one file” on the main interface. Select it, then you will get only one output file instead of several files by chapters.

You can click the “Effect” button and customize the brightness, saturation, contrast, volume, etc (See the figure below). You can even apply special effects such as “Emboss”, “Negative”, “Old film” and “Gray” by selecting an effect from the drop-down list.
Part3. How to extract audio from DVD to MP3 for iPod nano, shuffle, Zen and other MP3 players
Another great feature of Aimersoft is that it can extract and rip DVD audio tracks to MP3, WMA, WAV, AC3, AAC, M4A and so on, if you want to rip the music from a DVD to your MP3 players such as iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, Creative Zen, Zune and so on. After you load your DVD movie, in the main interface, select the output format as MP3, and then start conversion. If you want to get better music quality, you can select a higher audio bit rate and sample rate in the settings window.
After the conversion, drag the audio file to the iTunes library, connect your nano or shuffle to your computer, and click iTunes “File -> Sync iPod”, "OK". If you don’t have iTunes, you can download it for free from Apple's official site at http://www.apple.com/itunes
For PSP, just copy the music to the “Music” folder on your memory stick.
For Zune, drag the music to the Zune software, and click “start sync”.
Part4. How to put DVD clips on Youtube, Myspace
You can also convert DVDs to FLV format for Youtube, Myspace and other video download sites, if you want to share your own DVD clips with friends. After your movie is imported, select FLV as the output video format. Then log into (for example) Youtube, and simply upload your video. But remember that a whole DVD movie might be too large. By default, this software will convert the whole DVD to one file; if you just want several chapters of the DVD, just select the chapters you want to convert (you can preview the DVD clip before converting it).
Or you can click “Trim” button to open the trim panel, and drag the trim bar to set start time and end time to convert a clip from your movie. You can also type the exact time values in the Set Start Time field and Set End Time field to trim video.
Paryt 5. How to import DVD to Windows Movie Maker
To put a DVD movie into Windows Movie Maker, you have to rip your DVD to WMV or AVI video first(Windows Movie Maker supports WMV, AVI and MPG video files.), and then you can load it into Windows Movie Maker. you can use Aimersoft DVD Ripper to do this. just load the DVD files, click the format drop-down list to select “WMV – Windows Media Video (*.wmv)” or “AVI – Audio Video Interleaved (*.avi)” as the output format. select the suitable subtitles and audio tracks then click “Start" to start conversion
Then Run Windows Movie Maker, in the “Movie Task” bar, click “Add Video” to browse your computer and located the converted files, and then you can start to make personal movies.

Tips: Many users may wonder how they can convert Windows Movie Maker file (*.MSWMM) to other video format. Actually, A *.MSWMM file is not a video file. It is a project file of Movie Maker (more like a record file). You have to open this file in Windows Movie Maker and save the movie to your computer: Go to Movie Tasks bar > Finish Movie > Save to my computer. After that you will have a WMV file which can be converted to another video format or burned to DVD.

[edit] Warnings

It is generally accepted in most countries that making backup copies of your personally owned DVDs is a valid and wise practise. However, this can sometimes not be the case and making backup copies can be illegal in certain territories. In almost all countries it is illegal for you to copy DVDs that you don't own (such as rental DVDs). This guide, as mentioned earlier, is for "backups of your own DVDs for personal use"; it is NOT intended to teach people to make pirate copies.