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This article will teach you how to rip/copy DVD to MacBook (Pro) so that you can watch your DVD movies from the MacBook hard drive instead of the disk drive to save the battery. Also, you can sync the copy from MacBook to iPad, iPod, iPhone or other portable media devices; edit the copy with Mac video editing applications like iMovie, Final Cut Pro etc.; Burn the copy to a blank DVD with disk utility.
For home movie DVDs, you can use the disk utility (finder--->applications--->utilities--->disk utility) to make an Image of a DVD to your MacBook (Pro). However, here we mainly discuss how to rip commercial DVDs encrypted by copy protection to MacBook (Pro). To accomplish for this, you need a DVD decrypting program to break the copy protection before copying the videos from the DVDs. The program we use in this article is iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac. It can decrypt different types of commercial DVDs, and rip/convert them to a wide range of digital video format like AVI, MPEG, MOV, WMV, MP4, DivX, etc. on Mac.
Instruction of using the iSkysoft program to rip/convert a DVD to MacBook (Pro):
Step1. Load your DVD to this program
Insert your DVD into MacBook 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. Select the video format you want to save to your MacBook
Select the titles/chapters you want to rip, then open the format drop-down list, go to "Common Video" category to select MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVI (Xvid), MKV, MOV etc. as output format depending on your needs. Notably, this Mac app offers optimized presets for iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, iMovie, FCP etc. So you can select the presets directly if you want to rip DVDs to MacBook (Pro) hard drive and then transfer the DVDrip files to these video devices or editing programs.
Step3. Start the ripping&converting
Press Convert button to start the DVD to MacBook (Pro) ripping/converting. When the conversion finished, you can click Open to locate the new DVDrip files in your MacBook hard drive.
