How to convert DVD and video on Windows/Mac

Yingguang23 · Jan 22, 2009

Sometimes you might need to convert your home DVD and video then save it into a format compatible with your portable video player or a mobile phone. It often should also be of a certain size and for sure have exact parameters so that the device could playback it with no trouble. This following guide enables you to solve these problems quite easily with a few mouse clicks.

Part One: How to convert DVD on Windows/Mac
Part Two: How to convert Video on Windows/Mac

Part One: How to convert DVD on Windows/Mac

1. Things you will need: Tipard DVD Ripper (Mac Version / Windows Version).

2. Key Functions:

a. Rip DVD video to almost all the video and audio formats with fastest speed.
Tipard DVD Ripper can rip DVD to MP4, H.264, AVI, MP3, WMV, WMA, flv, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, 3GP, 3GPP, VOB, DivX, Mov, RM, RMVB, M4A, AAC, WAV, etc with the fastest speed and no loss of quality.

b. Trim your video clips.
Clip any segment of your video by set the exact start and end time or just drag the slide bar.

c. Crop the play region of video
Adjust the playing region of the video to fit for your player and your favor.

d. Set the video effect
Tipard DVD Ripper provides the video effect parameters, video Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and audio volume.

e. Merge several titles or chapters of DVD into one file
With several files merged into one file for output, you'll enjoy a single long movie with a single click.

3. Quick Start:

Step 1. Download and install Tipard DVD Ripper.
Mac Intle users: Click Here to download.
Mac PowerPC users: Click Here to download.
Windows user: Click Here to download.

Let's take Tipard DVD Ripper(windows version) as an example:

Step 2. Load your DVD and select the right output format according to your need.

Step 3. Start the Conversion
After you choose the right output format file and make some settings, click "Start". You can choose to shut down your computer or open the output folder after conversion.

Part Two: How to convert Video on Windows/Mac

1. Things you will need: Tipard Video Converter (Mac Version / Windows Version).

2. Key Functions:

a. Support the mutual conversion between all video formats.
Tipard Video Converter can convert between most popular video and audio formats.
Input Formats: MPG, MPEG, MPEG2, VOB, MP4, M4V, RM, RMVB, WMV, ASF, TS, MKV, AVI, 3GP, FLV, MPV, MOD, TOD, MP3, MP2, AAC, AC3, WAV, MID, MIDI, WMA, M4A, RA, RAM .
Output Formats: MP4, H.264, AVI, MP3, WMV, WMA, FLV, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, 3GP, 3GPP, VOB, DivX, Mov, RM, RMVB, M4A, AAC, WAV, OGG, RA.

b. Extract audio from video files.
Tipard Video Converter can take out the audio from video and convert it to M4A, MP3, AC3, AAC, WMA, WAV, OGG.

c. Trim your video length.
Clip any segment of your video exactly.

d. Crop the play region
Adjust the playing region of the video to fit for your player and your favor.

e. Merge into one file
Provide to join several video files into only one file.

3. Quick Start:

Step 1. Download and install Tipard Video Converter.
Mac Intle users: Click Here to download.
Mac PowerPC users: Click Here to download.
Windows user: Click Here to download.

Let's take Tipard Video Converter(windows version) as an example:

Step 2. Load your videos and select the right output format
Choose the output format from the "profile" dropdown list according to your need.

This video conversion software lets you set video brightness, contrast, saturation, crop video, trim video and even merge multiple files into one file.

Step 3. Start the Conversion
After you choose the right output format file and make some settings, click "Start". You can choose to shut down your computer or open the output folder after conversion.