subject: Importing Dvds To Imovie [print this page] For editing videos on Mac, iMovie is a great choice. Even if you do not use it for video editing, you can use it as a video manager and player, just like iTunes. With iMovie, you can manage all your videos in one place. You can choose from the cover flow and watch them there. If you want to edit your videos, then it is also a very good option. It provides a lot of video editing features. You can use editing tools, you can add effects, you can use themes etc. You can use it to edit audio as well. With all these features, it became a suitable choice for amateur video makers. You can make a home movie just with iMovie and nothing more.
iMovie is a proprietary application that comes with iLife package on Mac. It supports some of the popular video formats but ironically it does not support DVD movie files. Therefore if you want to use iMovie to edit a portion of a DVD movie or extract the audio or anything with it, you will not be able to. There are two problems that stop you to DVD to iMovie. They are the video format that DVD movies use and DRM.
DVD movies use VOB video format. It is actually used for any videos on DVD. VOB stands for Video Objects. This video format is popular for DVD but other than that it is not much supported by video related applications, at least not by default. So, if you wish to import DVD to iMovie, you will have to convert the video format first. As it is DVD, if you only convert the VOB files you will lose many DVD and movie information. To convert the DVD as it is into a suitable video format, you will require a DVD ripper.
Second obstacle is the DRM system. DRM is the acronym for Digital Rights Management. It is any technique that tries to protect copyright on digital contents. This system is unable to distinguish between an illegal user and a legal owner. As it cannot distinguish, it restricts some actions altogether for both kind of users. With a DRM protected DVD, you can only watch it. You will not be able to copy its contents, you will not be able to edit them and you will not be able to rip the DVD. So, you will need a DVD ripper that can remove DRM.
You have to be cautious about DVD rippers because there are DVD rippers that degrade the video quality as they rip it. You do not want that to happen. So, you have to use the best DVD ripper out there. DVD Ripper for Mac by Wondershare is the most reputed and renowned DVD ripper that can remove all the obstacles mentioned above. It supports sufficient number of video formats for you to convert to and it make sure to keep the quality intact.
With this DVD ripper, you can now import any DVD movie to iMovie and use them to your personal use. You purchased the DVDs with your own money after all. You are supposed to use it to any of your personal use except mass distribution.
