How to rip DVD movies to iPad/iPad Wi-Fi+3G supported file formats on Mac

Has your heart ever been touched by the good and evil of the humanity unveiled in "Avatar"? Have you ever been moved by the unremitting efforts made by Will Smith in "The Pursuit of Happyness"? Have you ever wept for the extremely beautiful but tragic love in "Titanic"? Have you ever been motivated by the movie dialogues like "A strong man can save himself; a great man can save another" in "The Shawshank Redemption"?

So there are hundreds of movies in your DVD collection, wanna rip the classic ones for playback on your new iPad or iPad Wi-Fi+3G in 720p quality? If so, this article will show you how to convert DVD movies for watching on your iPad with excellent quality. Go to find the details from the following paragraphs.

The software you will need is Pavtube DVD to iPad Converter for Mac.

This program is good at removing commercial DVD copy protections, so you can feel free to load almost all of your DVD movies to it to do format conversion, even the latest released ones. More than that, with advanced audio and video in sync technology, it will guarantee the output files well in sync while playback on your big screens iPad/iPad 3G.

Step 1: Once you run this program, click "DVD Folder" or "IFO File" to load DVD files



All the DVD movie files are checked by default while loading, you can right click on the file to "Uncheck all" or "Check all", so as to select your needed files to convert in an easy way.

Step 2: Select output format for your iPad/iPad 3G
Actually, there are three iPad presets specially optimized for iPad, you can choose anyone of them to satisfy your needs. Every one of them will definitely ensure you a perfect playback quality on your iPad/iPad Wi-Fi+3G.



To see the default video and audio parameters, you can click "Settings" button, and all of these items including codec name, bitrate, aspect ratio, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels will be clearly presented as below. If you are professional at changing these items, you can adjust them to meet your higher expectation, otherwise, just let them be. Because they are good enough to output a nice quality file for your iPad. User Interface Flash Tool Tip Components Classic Tooltip.



If you still want to try your luck, please follow iPad supported file formats to do your changes.

iPad Supported Video Formats

H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format

iPad Supported Audio Formats

Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz

Audio formats supported:HE-AAC (V1), AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV

Step 3: Click "Convert" button to start ripping DVDs to iPad/iPad 3G video
Just take a few seconds to do selection, and after that, you can sit back and relax, the entire DVD ripping task will be finished by this iPad Mac DVD ripper at fast speed. Once the conversion work is finished, you can click "Open" button to get the output DVD movies for your iPad with ease.

How to use Pavtube Mac iMedia Converter?

The tutorial aims to give you a general idea about how to use Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac before getting started. The iMdedia Converter for Mac is specially designed for Mac users to enjoy the videos, DVD and blu-ray movies on Mac and multiple mobile devices.

Basically, Pavtube iMedia Converter helps you to directly backup DVD and blu-ray movies from disc and folder to hard drive, rip DVD ISO image file to desired video and audio formats, convert HD footages such as MTS (M2TS, M2T), TOD, MOD and MOV files to desired formats for editing and playing back, convert DVR TiVo files to lossless MPEG files and other desired formats, and convert among other common videos such as flash videos, Quicktime videos, CD files, digital video files, Matroska files, etc. and extract audio tracks from the source discs and clips. Besides, the converter features editing facilities such as trimming, cropping, watermarking, flipping, etc.

To learn more information about this app, you may visit iMedia Converter for Mac or download the free trial of iMedia Converter and try it out. Please note that the trial version output video with a watermark on the screen and the Disk Copy option is restricted to use three times only.

Now let’s see how to use the powerful iMedia Converter for Mac.

Import source disc/ folder/ file

Accepted sources includes blu-ray disc, blu-ray folder, DVD, DVD folder, DVD ISO image file, and Video clips. For ripping blu-ray disc you need to connect an external BD drive with your Mac. To add video files, please click ‘Add Video’ button and browse to source video files or drag and drop the files in the ‘Getting Started’ area. To load blu-ray disc, DVD, blu-ray folder, DVD folder, please click ‘DVD/ BD Folder’ and browse to the disc or directory. To import DVD image file, please click ‘IFO File’ and browse to the file you’d like to convert.



The file list is composed of five columns: Check box, Name, Duration, Trimmed Length, and Destination File.



Check Box: Click to check/ uncheck all files in the list.
Destination File: The name of the converted file. By default it is same with the original file. If you’d like to specify a different name for output file, double-click it in Destination File column and type in favorable name.




Common video files are listed for you to organize; the blu-ray or DVD movie shows up as a directory. Expand the directory and you will find all the chapters are in numerical sequence. You can convert the whole disc to movie collection or select single chapter for conversion. An excellent MKV Converter for Mac OS X software to convert MKV video on Mac.

For blu-ray movie, there are Title Mode and File Mode. 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. If you want to rip the main movie and nothing more, do uncheck other sequences. If you would like to retain everything in the blu-ray disc, simply use the default settings. If you’d like to switch to file mode, please select the blu-ray movie directory and click ‘ViewMode’. And you can check and preview each individual segment. In File mode all the m2ts files in file list are checked by default. If you want to select but the main movie, a fast way is to right-click and choose ‘Uncheck All’ in shortcut menu and then check the main movie (longest m2ts file). Or simply check the small box in the title bar of the file list to check/ uncheck all.

When a blu-ray or DVD movie is loaded, you can find the Subtitle and Audio option under the file list are activated.



Subtitle: Click to view available subtitles of selected chapter and set desired subtitle from drop-down list. Note that some chapters have no subtitles at all. And you can specify subtitle of different languages for different chapters.
Audio: Click to view available audio tracks selected chapter and set desired audio from drop-down list.

Best MOD to iPad Converter

Best iPad Video settings

Follow the optimal settings to get excellent playback quality.
Video:
Codec: H.264
Size: 640*480 or 1280*720
Bitrate: 2500kbps
Frame rate: 30fps
Audio:
Codec: aac
Sample rate: 48khz
Bitrate: 160kbps
Channels: Stereo

Pavtube MOD to iPad Converter is an ideal tool for people who are using digital camcorders, such as JVC Everio, the Canon FS100 and the Panasonic D-Snap SD-card camcorders. It can edit and convert the recording video MOD from your digital camcorder to other popular video and audio formats like MP4, 3GP, AVI, MPG, MPEG-4, FLV, MOV, 3G2, VOB, MP3, FLAC, MKA, OGG, WAV, AC3, M4A etc. for playback on portable devices like iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, Zune, Creative Zen, cell phones and edit in Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Power Director etc.



What's new
- Fixed for the out of sync issue when merging multiple trimmed files together.

- Improved the GUI to be more user-friendly. A checkbox is added for users to check/ uncheck all chapters; the main movie of source disc is marked out; and slider bars are added so as to adjust the position of crop area and text/image/video watermark more conveniently. Select the convert tool for your recipe.

- Upgraded the Profile Manger, and improved the profile list to be more friendly, intuitive, and flexible. The software will memorize the profile settings and apply it when it is updated to the later version.

- Added support to iPad, including three more optimized formats.

- Added scale value to Brightness, Contrast and Saturation facility contained in Effect tab.

Learn more: Best iPad video conversion tools

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)

Learn more: Backup blu-ray movie to Mac with Mac Blu-ray ripper in fastest way

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.

Find more details about burning DVD with Ulead DVD MovieFactory.

Learn more: Burn MTS files to Standard DVD

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.

http://abc.go.com/

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.