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Ripping, or copying a DVD to a Mac hard drive need a special Mac application. Here I will offer you three decent Mac DVD to hard drive ripping/converting software, and you can select the right one depending on the purpose of getting your DVDs onto your iMac or Macbook hard disk.
#1. Copy DVDs with the Mac Disk Utility
If you want to backup your home movie DVDs to your Mac computer, or distribute home movies to family and friends by burning them onto blank discs, you can use the Mac Disk Utility to create an image of the disc, then burn it to a blank DVD.
1 Insert the DVD you want to copy into your Mac.
2 Select "Utilities" from the "Go" menu in the Finder, then start the Disk Utility application.
3 Drag & drop the DVD icon to the Disk Utility application.
4 Click on the "New Image" icon, enter the name for the image and select DVD/CD master In the "Image Format" drop-down menu. Click "Save" to start the copying.
5 When the process completes, eject the DVD disc. By the way, if you want to burn the disc image to other DVD discs, just insert a blank DVD, choose the disc image in the left-hand pane and click "Burn" icon at the top of the window.
#2. Rip & compress movie DVDs as digital video files onto Hard drive (Mac)
If you want to compress your DVD as a digital video format like MP4, MOV, M4V, AVI etc. to your Mac for using on iMovie, FCP, iPad, iPod, iPhone, PSP or other programs or devices, you can use the iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac which has the ability to rip contents off DVD discs to Mac hard drive, and convert them to different video format preserving original quality.
2 Place a DVD into your Mac disc drive. Start the Mac app, when the main window appears, 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.
3 Choose the titles/chapters you want to convert, then go to "Common Video" category in the format drop-down list to select MP4, AVI (Xvid), M4V, MKV, MOV, FLV etc. as output format depending on your needs. Notably, this Mac program provides optimized presets for iMovie, FCP(X), iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, etc. So you can select the presets directly if you wish to rip DVDs to Mac hard drive and then put the new digital video files to these video devices or editing programs.
4 Click the heavy grey "Convert" button at the right and bottom edge of the Mac app's window to convert the DVD to the hard disk of your iMac or MacBook.
#3. Extract movie contents from DVD discs, and save as .VOB files onto Hard drive on Mac
