How to make Blu-ray backup in the fastest way on Mac?

Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac is a powerful blu-ray disc ripping and copying solution for you to rip protected blu-ray discs and DVD movie into versatile popular video and audio formats. With the new release of v2.6, a new feature was added to support entire disc copy with one click. The ‘Disk Copy’ option helps users to make a successful and full copy of protected blu-ray movie in shortest time. The entire disc could be back up to your hard drive with an hour or even less. Now let’s see how to copy the entire Blu-ray disc to PC.

Before start please make sure you have a BD drive and the blu-ray disc is not damaged. Put the disc into blu-ray disc drive. Get trail version of Pavtube Mac Blu-ray ripper. Note that the trial version of blu-ray ripper copies blu-ray and DVD movie for only three times and have Pavtube logo on the screen.

Getting started
1. Import Blu-ray movie to Mac Blu-Ray Ripper.
Run Mac Blu-Ray Ripper and you will see the interface as it shows below. The ripper allows you to import blu-ray movie from both disc and folder. For Blu-ray disc, click ‘BD/DVD Folder’ and the ripper will detect and load the disc; for Blu-ray Folder, please click ‘BD/DVD Folder’ and browse to the Blu-ray directory (rather than individual m2ts file).
By default the files are listed in Title Mode, all the chapters are in numerical sequence for you to check individually. For checking the subordinate chapters of certain sequence, please click its plus sign. Generally, ‘Title001’ contains the main movie, and other Titles are commentary, menus, titles and ads.


(BD/ DVD Folder)

A fast way to select the main movie is, right-click in file list field and choose ‘Uncheck All’ in shortcut menu and then check the main movie (longest m2ts file). To check all the chapters,simply choose ‘Check Titles’.


(Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac- main interface)
2. Preview the blu-ray clips and take snapshots
Double-click on a file to preview when you would like to preview it. You can take snapshots when previewing the movie. Simply click ‘Snapshoot’ button. To locate the thumbnails, please click ‘Open folder’ button. To set image format, location and size of thumbnails, please click ‘Option’ menu.


(preview the movie clips)

3. Copy the entire blu-ray structure and contents to PC
To make a quick and full copy of the Blu-ray movie, you can click ‘Disk Copy’ button. In this way all contents of the Blu-ray disc will be copied to your hard drive, including the menus, titles, ads, etc. Disk Copy aims to help users to backup the whole contents of a blu-ray disc or standard DVD in the easiest and fastest way. The backup costs much less time than ripping movie to other format. With the Blu-ray and DVD structure, you do not have to create new menu when burning the blu-ray movie to blank blu-ray disc for backup.

4. Play m2ts files on Mac.
After the copy completed, you may click ‘Open’ button to locate the Blu-ray directory. Open BDMV-> STREAM folder and you will find all the m2ts movie clips. For playing the m2ts files, you may use VLC player or Mplayer.


(Play mts/m2ts file with VLC player)

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How To burn Sony Handycam MTS files to Standard DVD with Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6?

Most HD (High-definition) digital camcorders produce MTS extension files, especially for Sony Handy cams. MTS files are AVCHD videos with perfect video quality, but not so widely accepted by editing software and media players as common video formats like MPEG, WMV and AVI. Besides, the MTS files must be burned to HD DVD or blu-ray disc to obtain the original HD quality (usually 1920*1080). Even if you find some trick to burn the MTS files onto standard DVD, it will turns out with degraded image and slow motion. In a word, you can not enjoy the HD effect unless the MTS files are burned onto HD DVD or blu-ray disc. Taking the cost of HD DVD and blu-ray disc into consideration, it is acceptable to burn the HD footages to DVD with a little quality degradation but fluent motion. How to optimize Sony Handycam footages for burning onto standard DVD? The following guide might give you some hint.

Software you will need:Pavtube HD Converter,Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6

Step 1. Launch Pavtube HD Converter and load MTS files into it.
You can click "Add" button to import .mts files, or directly drag and drop the files into this program.



Pavtube HD Converter can help you convert and burn your own MTS video to DVDs. It converts and burn MTS to DVD but also supports AVI,MPEG, MKV,MP4,VOB,MP4,WMV,and more compliant DVD Video set of files for burning to DVD.

Step 2: Click the drop-down menu of "Format" to select output format
With multiple output formats,Pavtube HD Video Converter is able to output proper formats for numerous video editing software and portable devices. To burn a DVD, I select Common Video-> MPEG-2 Video (*.mpg) as output format for DVD MovieFactory 6. Alternative formats are AVI, WMV and MOV. By the way, if you wanna combine multiple MTS files to be as a single file, you can tick the checkbox "Merge into one file".

Step 3: Click "Settings" button to adjust audio and video parameters
To make good control of the output file size and quality,you can adjust all the items in the following interface,including codec,aspect ratio,bit rate,frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels. For standard DVD, a recommended setting is

Video
Codec: mpeg2video
Size (pix): 720*480 (NTSC) or 720*576 (PAL)
Bitrate (kbps): 8500
Frame rate (fps): 29.97
Audio
Codec: mp2
Sampling rate (hz): 48000
Bitrate (bps): 96000bps
Channels: Stereo



As the source MTS files are HD video and is usually with AC3 5.1 audio, you retain the 5.1 audio by adjusting the audio bitrate to 224000bps, and select 5.1 Channles in drop-down list of Channels box.

Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start conversion
The following window will show you clearly about the conversion information,which will help you to manage your time and storage space in a proper way. If you do not want to wait for the whole conversion process through, you can choose "Shut down computer after conversion" to leave it alone. After conversion completed you can click on "Open" button in the main interface to get the generated files.

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How to make full copy of blu-ray disc in fastest and easiest way?

Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper enables you to rip protected blu-ray discs and DVD movie into versatile popular video and audio formats. With the new release of v3.6, a new utility has been added to make users copy the whole disc in shortest time. Now with ‘Full Disk Copy’ option of Blu-ray Ripper, users are able to make a successful and full copy of protected blu-ray movie. The entire disc could be back up to your hard drive within an hour. Now let’s see how to copy the entire Blu-ray disc to PC.

Before start please make sure you have a BD drive and the blu-ray disc is not damaged. Put the disc into blu-ray disc drive. Get trail version of Pavtube Blu-ray ripper. Note that the trial version of blu-ray ripper copies blu-ray and DVD movie for only three times and have Pavtube logo on the screen.

Getting started
1. Load Blu-ray movie to Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper.
Run Blu-Ray Ripper and you will see the below interface. The ripper allows you to import blu-ray movie from both disc and folder. For Blu-ray disc, click ‘BD/DVD ROM’; for Blu-ray Folder, please click ‘BD/DVD Folder’ and browse to the Blu-ray directory.

By default the files are listed in Title Mode, all the chapters are in numerical sequence for you to check individually. For checking the subordinate chapters of certain sequence, please click its plus sign. Generally, ‘Title001’ contains the main movie, and other Titles are commentary, menus, titles and ads. By default all the Titles are selected for editing and ripping.

A fast way to select the main movie is, right-click in file list field and choose ‘Uncheck All’ in shortcut menu and then check the main movie (longest m2ts file). To check all the chapters,simply choose ‘Check Subchapters’.

2. Preview the blu-ray clips and take snapshots
Double-click on a file to preview when you would like to preview it. You can take snapshots when previewing the movie. Simply click ‘Snapshoot’ button. To locate the thumbnails, please click ‘Open folder’ button. To set image format, location and size of thumbnails, please click ‘Option’ menu.

3. Copy the entire blu-ray structure and contents to PC
To make a quick and full copy of the Blu-ray movie, you can click ‘Full Disk Copy’ button. In this way all contents of the Blu-ray disc will be copied to your hard drive, including the menus, titles, ads, etc. Full Disk Copy aims to help users to backup the whole contents of a blu-ray disc or standard DVD in the easiest and fastest way. The backup costs much less time than ripping movie to other format. With the Blu-ray and DVD structure, you do not have to create new menu when burning the blu-ray movie to blank blu-ray disc for backup.

4. Play m2ts files on PC.
After the copy completed, you may click ‘Open’ button to locate the Blu-ray directory. Open BDMV-> STREAM folder and you will find all the m2ts movie clips. For playing the m2ts files, you may use VLC player or KMPlayer.

How to convert flash videos to be played on iPad?

The newly released iPad does look like a very well-designed and beautiful device. It may be used to search the Internet, watch movies and videos, listen to music, use art programs, read/send e-mail, read e-books, play games, keep a calendar, watch TV, use maps, or to look at and organize photos. The iPad, however, won’t run flash content at all. That means you won’t be able to watch videos from Hulu and the adobe flash is kept away from your touch. Still you could watch the flash videos downloaded from Youtube or Hulu on iPad------Pavtube FLV Converter could convert flash videos (*.flv, *.f4v) to H.264 or MPEG-4 encoded videos that are compatible with iPad. The following guide tells how to convert flash videos to play on iPad with Pavtube FLV Converter.

(Tip 1: Please click this link and you are free to download and evaluate demo version of Pavtube FLV Converter.)

Step 1. Run Pavtube FLV Converter and load in flash videos.
First, you Install Pavtube FLV Converter and get your FLV files ready,run the appand click "Add" button to import FLV files to the app (or simply drag the source files to file list.) Double-click on it if you’d like to preview a file or take some snapshots.

Step 2. Set output format to be compatible with iPad
You will then tick the format bar and choose an appropriate format for iPad. MP4, MOV, M4V encoded with H.264 and MPEG-4 are available. Specify output format and next output path. Click on “Settings” button in case you wanna change its codec, bitrate, size, frame rate, audio channel, etc. For example, set audio codec as AAC.Convert MKV files to DVD and watch on any DVD player, using only freeware software.

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Step 3. Convert the FLV, F4V videos
When all these are done, you can click "Convert" button to start. If you’d like to put some flashes into one file, simply check the box “Merge into one file” before clicking “Convert”. After conversion finished, you may sync the converted video clips to iPad for playback.

Tip 2: The FLV Converter also features editing functions. You may select a file and click Edit to cut off black edges, trim off certain unwanted part of the videos.

How to convert MKV AAC to AC3 or AC3 to AAC?

Have no idea of how to make the damn MKV AAC audio to AC3 so as to get it work with your home theatre system? From right now on, there is no need to worry about converting MKV AAC to AC3. Pavtube MKV converter will handle all the MKV conversions for you. This app helps you to convert Matroska file to whatever video and audio format you like. You can convert between MKV AAC and MKV AC3 meanwhile remains 5.1 channels with a few clicks. Everything goes so easy! What’s more, it allows you to combine multiple MKV files together, split an MKV file into several files, resize the MKV file and make it adaptable with your player, cut off the black edges, turn up/down the volume etc. Why not have a try? A trial version can be accessed via this link. It is clean, safe, and easy-to-use. Now let’s focus on the conversion of MKV AAC to AC3.

Step One. Launch MKV Converter and import MKV files
Install Pavtube MKV Converter and launch it. Import MKV videos to the file list by clicking Add button. Double-click it if you would like to preview a file. Under the preview window lies four control button, play, stop, snapshoot and open. Click snapshoot button to capture favorable frame. When the box of Merge into one is checked, all the selected files will be combined and output as one file.

You can also rip Blu-ray to MP3, WMA, AAC, M4A, RA and put Blu-ray movie on your Archos, iPod, MP4 player, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Zune,and more.

Step Two. Select output format
Now let’s set output settings: click on “Settings” and nextthe format bar. Follow either Common Video-> MKV or HD Video-> MKV. Set audio codec to AC3 is right you need to do. Set Sample rate and Bit rate to higher value and Channels to 5.1 channels provided you have decent stereo system. Don’t forger to click OK to confirm your settings.

Step Three. Start converting MKV files
After you have set each file to right setting, check all the files you’d like to convert and click on the Convert button to start the conversion. After conversion you could play them freely on home theatre system.http://www.fxnetworks.com/

You could follow the same moves to convert MKV AC3 to AAC, only set the audio codec to AAC when set output format.

How to get English subtitle and audio track when ripping Blu-ray movie on Mac?

Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac is a powerful tool specially designed for Mac users to rip, convert, backup and edit both Blu-ray and DVD movies. The source movie could be from Blu-ray disc, DVD, Blu-ray and DVD folder, ISO and IFO file. The ripper could remove all the protections of Blu-ray movies such as AACS and BD+, and allows you to back up the movies to hard drive, rip and convert them into other popular audio and video formats to enjoy more freely on home server and devices like Xbox 360 and Apple TV. Besides, the M2TS files shot with AVCHD camcorders can be imported to Blu-ray Ripper for Mac and converted to compatible formats for editing in video editing software like iMovie, FCP, etc. Although most Blu-ray rippers are not able to capture the subtitles or TrueHD audio track, Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac is an exception. It recognizes TrueHD and DTS-MA 7.1 channels and output the track at 5.1 channels at best and allows you to select any subtitle you like, as long as it is there. All tracks and subtitles packaged in the Blu-ray disc are available. In the following guide I will show you how to keep English subtitle and track during the ripping procedure.

Step 1. Launch Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac and load Blu-ray movies to it. You can click "DVD Folder" and "IFO File" to load BD movies into this program. Do not browse to certain folder or M2TS file, just choose the BDMV folder, the ripper will load all the M2TS files.


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Step 2. Once files are loaded, right-click on the file list and choose “Unselect all” and then tick off the checkbox before the main movie. By main movie I mean the M2TS file which has longest duration. The extra files can be left unchecked, since the whole movie is included in the main movie. Click the drop-down list of "Subtitle", then all the subtitle info in the Blu-ray will be shown clearly, including language and stream ID, so you can select your needed language as your subtitle at will. What you need is to find English and check it. Now click the drop-down list of “Audio” and select English track. The dropdown list shows you the detailed information such as the audio language, codec, channels etc. You can use the preview window to check your selection.

You should not miss Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper, as it will solve all the problems and convert almost all the Blu-Ray to MOV for you.

Step 3. Click on the pull down menu of "Format" to select output format, at the same time, if you want to make good control of the output file quality and file size, you can click "Settings" button to adjust video and audio parameters like bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, aspect ratio, audio channels, etc.

Step 4. When all settings are done, simply click on the "Convert" button to start BD ripping as well as the subtitle ripping. After finished, you can click "Open" button to get the output files with your specified subtitle and audio.

How to convert JVC Everio HD footages to editable format with flawless quality?

“How do I convert this file without any quality loss to be able to edit within Premiere Pro CS4?” A good question! The JVC Everio cameras, like GZ-HD620, GZ-HD500, GZ-HM300 etc, shoot at full HD (1920x1080) in MTS or TOD format, which are rejected by most editing software, and you have to convert them to common and editable format before importing to non-linear editing application. Although all the Everio models come with software that allows you to do some simple editing, turns out to be helpless if you want to transcode the footages with it. You got to seek other application to deal with these HD files. The en-decoding process, as we all know, will definitely leads to quality loss of the video. You can hardly expect the converted video clip as perfect as the original footages. Is there any software that can convert MTS file to be editable and keep the original video quality? Well, Pavtube HD Converter is worth trying. In the following guide I will show you how to convert JVC MTS and TOD files to editable video clips without quality loss.

Access the software:
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Step through:
Step one. Run Pavtube HD Converter. Click ‘Add’ button, browse to the footages and load them to the converter.

Step two. Select the items to be converted, and click on ‘Format’ bar. Select Remux-> MPEG-PS Video Remux (*.mpg). For burning onto blu-ray disc, MPEG-TS would be a nice choice.

Step three. Click the folder icon at the end of ‘Output’ field to select a location for the output video files.This guide tell you how to convert MOD to lossless audio with Pavtube MOD Converter, which is designed for camcorder owners to convert MOD to lossless MP3, WAV, MKA,M4A, OGG, AC3. You can even set Dolby 5.1 channels.

Step four. Click the ‘Convert’ button to start conversion. After conversion you can click the ‘Open’ button to locate converted video files. The converted files will be as big as the source footages, without any quality degradation. Now you can import these HD MPG files to Premiere CS4 and any other editing software for editing.

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Small Tips:

1. Preview the video- select it in file list and click ‘Preview’ button.
2. Thumbnail- click ‘Snapshoot’ button when previewing the video. Click ‘Option’ to set the image format of screenshots.
3. Deinterlace- click ‘Editor’, switch to ‘Effect’ tab, find ‘Deinterlacing’ box, and check it.
4. Combine files together- check the files to be merged in file list and check ‘Merge into one’ box beside ‘Settings’ button.
5. Trim- click ‘Editor’, switch to ‘Effect’ tab and input time point in start and end box.
6. The HD files bite much hard drive space. You can compress the files with the HD Converter to free some space when it is necessary.

How to rip commercial DVDs on Mac - for playback on wide screen TV via WD TV Mini

WD TV Mini Media Player supports up to 1080i resolution for crisp HD media playback, besides this feature, it will never limit the size of your media collection, and you just need add more drives as you like. However there is no luck with commercial DVDs, even though you need not consider about the storage space, because these DVDs have strict copy protections, which WD TV Mini is unable to decrypt. To rip commercial DVDs to a compatible format with WD TV Mini on your Mac, what you will need is Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac only. Go to find a step-by-step instruction as below.

First off, have a look at WD TV Mini Media Player supported media formats:

Videos:
AVI (Xvid, AVC, MPEG4), MPG/MPEG, VOB/ISO, MP4/MOV (MPEG4), RM or RMVB 8/9/10

Audios:
MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AAC, FLAC, MKA, OGG, APE

You can free download Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac here.

Step 1: Launch Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac, and load DVD files to it

You can click "DVD folder" or "IFO file" to load DVD files directly from the DVD-Rom, DVD folder, or from an IFO image file.



Step 2: Select an output format for WD TV Mini Media Player

Click on the pull down menu of "Format" to a WD TV Mini Media Player supported format as output format. Here I select "Xvid AVI" as my choice.

Step 3: Set advanced settings

Click on "Settings" button, and you are allowed to adjust audio and video parameters on the popup window including codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, aspect ratio, and audio channels. The user manual of WD TV Min tells us that when playback .avi (Xvid) video files, WD TV Mini supports up to 720*576 30fps or 720*480 30fps, so we need to follow the manual while ripping a DVD. Tod converter for mac to play on iPod, iPhone, QuickTime, iTunes, iMovie, iDVD, Apple TV, iMovie etc.



Step 4: Set destination folder

Click "Browse" button to specify where to export the output files to.

Step 5: Click "Convert" button to start ripping DVD

The following window will show you clearly about the ripping info, such as time elapse, estimated left time, generated file size, and estimated file size. In that way, you are able to manage your time and storage space in a proper way. http://www.fxnetworks.com/



Once ripping work is done, you can click "Open" button to get the output files for WD TV Mini effortlessly.

Additional tips:

1. The ripping speed of this software is 1-2 times faster than the similar programs. Merge multiple files into one file is available.

2. Enable users to select specific subtitle and audio track to convert.

3. Guarantee audio-video in sync.

4. With exception of adding text as watermark, images, GIF animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the picture-in-picture effect.

5. You can use the "Trim" function to select certain DVD clips to convert. And you can also take advantage of the "Crop" function to remove black edges or change the screen size.

How to watch commercial DVDs on your wide screen TV via WD TV Mini Media Player

WD TV Mini Media Player provides an easy and affordable way to play back your digital media on your wide screen TV. It serves as a conduit between your TV set and USB drive storage, no matter it is a camcorder, a humble flash drive, or an external HDD. Simply connect WD TV Mini to your TV, plug a USB-connected storage into the player and you are ready to enjoy all your digital media in DVD quality playback.

WD TV Mini Media Player supported media formats:

Videos:
AVI (Xvid, AVC, MPEG4), MPG/MPEG, VOB/ISO, MP4/MOV (MPEG4), RM or RMVB 8/9/10

Audios:
MP3, WAV/PCM/LPCM, WMA, AAC, FLAC, MKA, OGG, APE

From the above list we can see that VOB is a playable format for WD TV Mini Media Player, does it mean that WD TV Mini can play all kinds of DVDs – whether home made DVDs or commercial DVDs? The answer is WD TV can not decrypt copy protected commercial DVDs, so you have to rip them. This tutorial aims to show you how to make it possible for you to watch commercial DVDs on your wide screen TV via WD TV Mini Media Player. What you will need is Pavtube DVD Ripper, it not only rips, but it encodes too. Following is the detailed operating steps:

Step 1: Click "DVD Rom", "DVD Folder" or "IFO/ISO" to load DVD files into this program.



Step 2: Select subtitle and audio track
Click on the pull down menu of "Subtitle" and "Audio" respectively to select your needed subtitle and audio language.

Step 3: Select output format for WD TV Mini Media Player
Click on the drop-down list at the end of "Format" to choose an output format for WD TV Mini Media Player. Your selection should be in the range of AVI (Xvid, AVC, MPEG4), MPG/MPEG, VOB/ISO, MP4/MOV (MPEG4), RM or RMVB 8/9/10. Here I select "Xvid AVI" as an example:



Step 4: Click "Settings" button to adjust video and audio parameters
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Step 5: Click "Convert" button to start DVD ripping
Once finished, you can get the generated files for WD TV Mini via clicking on "Open" button with ease. Afterwards, just copy the output files to My Passport portable hard drive or other USB drive, and then connect WD TV Mini to your TV, plug your USB drive into the player and you are ready to enjoy the movies ripped from your commercial DVDs.