subject: Dvd To Imovie Mac [print this page] Source: http://dvdrippingsoftwares.org/dvdtips/dvd-to-imovie.html
iMovie is a decent video editing application from Apple, currently the latest version of iMovie is iMovie 11. You can use this application to incorporate your video clips (including QuickTime movies, DV video, MPEG 4/MPEG 2/AVCHD video etc.), still images, and music together seamlessly and easily. Although iMovie 11 supports the DVD movies (MPEG 2 encoder) now, there are still several issues when you import a DVD to iMovie on Mac OS X. For example, the DVD movies with big size often crash the iMovie when you load them to iMovie. In addition, you cant transfer commercial DVDs with copy protection to iMovie for editing.
For avoid these issues while putting a DVD to iMovie, the most effective solution is ripping/converting DVD into iMovie-friendly video format like MP4 with a Mac DVD conversion program. Here i recommend you a popular Mac DVD ripper/converter at present in the internet called iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac. This program can rip/convert any DVD (copyrighted DVDs included) to a wide range video format including MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, FLV etc. and offers optimized and classified conversion profile for iMovie, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV etc.
A brief instruction of how to convert DVD to iMovie for Mac OS X with this iSkysoft program:
Step1. Insert your DVD to the disc drive, open up iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac. Click the "Load DVD" option under the "File" menu, then choose the DVD drive from the list of option and the titles/chapters will be loaded to the program.
Step2. After loading, select the title(s) you want to convert and choose the "iMovie" option out from "Apple Software" field in the output profile. Furthermore, you can split one title to several segments or merge multiple titles to one big file for converting to iMovie.
Step3. Click Convert button to start the process to convert DVD to iMovie-friendly video file and it will be finished in a few minutes or hours depending on the condition of your hardware and the length of original DVD.
Click Ok of the pop up window to check the new video file converted from your DVD, then you can import the new converted DVD file to iMovie on iMac/Macbook or you can also transfer the new converted DVD file to iMovie on iPad 2/iPhone for editing.
