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The following article is going to show you how to rip DVD to iTunes files on Mac OS X (including Snow Leopard) for viewing on iPad, iPod, iPhone using DVD to iTunes Converter for Mac. It also shows several tips and tricks you need to pay attention to while using this Mac DVD to iTunes Converter to convert DVD to iTunes Mac.

Step 1. Launch DVD to iTunes Converter for Mac and add DVD Movie ( free download )

Drag & drop DVD disc icon on the desktop to the program. Or go to “File” menu, choose “Load DVD” to locate the DVD movies (including DVD Video, DVD IFO file, DVD folder, dvdmedia file) you want to add.

The defaulted settings only read main feature of the DVD movie for conversion, without DVD menu and the movie just starts playing right away. If you want to import the whole DVD, go to “Preference” and unchecked “Load main title of the DVD”.
Subtitle: Regular DVD movies usually have several subtitles such as English, French, German, etc. You can select the one you prefer so that you can convert DVD with subtitle on Mac. You can also delete the subtitle by selecting ‘No Subtitle’
Audio Track: Select an audio track from the available audio tracks of your DVD movie.

Step 2. Output Settings

DVD to iTunes Converter for Mac provides a variety of optimized presets for Apple devices including iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV and Apple Software like iMovie, Final Cut Pro.

Step 3. Start DVD Movie Conversion

After the output settings, you can just hit the Convert button to start converting your movies. You can choose to shut down your computer or open the output folder after the conversion.

Tip 1. Split DVD chapters and capture DVD clips

If you want to capture a clip from the current title/chapter, move the pointer over the thumbnail of the DVD you want to split and choose “split” from the pop-up menu. In the Split window, you can choose split DVD into chapters automatically. Or you can drag the slider to the exact point you want to cut the video, and click “scissors” icon. When the settings are done, close the window and click “Yes” in pop-up dialogue to save the settings.

Tip 2. Crop DVD Video

In the Crop window, select an output aspect ratio and the available options are: Keep Original, Full Screen, 16:9 and 4:3. You can enter the crop values manually or drag the rectangular selection box to select the displaying area.

Tip 3. Video Effect

In the Video Adjustment window, drag the slider to set the brightness, contrast, saturation and volume. You can also choose a special effect from the Effect drop-down list to apply to your DVD movie.

Tip 4. Capture Pictures

After the files added, you can preview the movie in the preview window on the left of the main interface. While previewing the movie, you can capture pictures by clicking the Snapshot button.

Motorola Droid X video Converter - How to convert and play video avi/wmv to Motorola Droid X with Video to Motorola Droid X Converter?

Motorola Droid X is a powerful Motorola Android smartphone. It turns your hand into a larger-than-life 4.3-inch screen with an 8MP camera, HD video, HDMI output, and a hi-res screen that’s high-octane fuel for your eyes. So watch your favorite video on this Portable device is a kind of enjoyment. But you may be in a confused that how to import video avi, wmv, flv, mov, ts, mts to Motorola Droid X for watching?

As we know the playable format of Motorola Droid X just like the follower: Video: H.263, H.264, MPEG-4, and the Audio: AAC, MP3, WAV, eAAC+, WMA v10, MIDI, AAC+. Learn the above codec, you may know that many video formats are not supported by Droid X, if you want to watch videos on Droid X, convert video format to Droid X recognized like .MP4 is necessary.

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Video Converter for Motorola Droid X allowed you convert all most formats of videos and movies such as .avi, .flv, .mov, .mts, .m2ts, .rmvb, .mkv, .ts etc to the Motorola Droid X supported formats with high speed and excellent image/sound quality. Video converter for Motorola Droid X could convert audio or extract audio from video to AAC, AC3, AIFF, AMR, AU, FLAC, MP3, M4V, MP2, OGG, WAV, WMA audio formats.

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How to convert and play video avi/wmv to Motorola Droid X?

Step 1: Load video files to Video Converter for Motorola Droid X

Free download, install and run Video Converter for Motorola Droid X, then click “Add” button to import your video files into Video Converter for Motorola Droid X. As the program supports batch conversion, you can convert all added files one by one automatically.

Step 2: Select output format parameters: Motorola Droid X(MPEG-4)

In the drop-down list next to “format”, select output format that you need, here we set “Motorola Droid(x) MPEG-4 Video(*.mp4)”.

Tip:

Edit Video: You can only get the desired segments by setting the start time point and end time point.

Crop video clips: Switch to crop window, you can remove unwanted parts around the video.

Step 3: Start convert video files

After all the necessary setting have been done, click “Convert” button to start converting automatically.

There are many ways of removing iTunes DRM copy protection. On Windows, you can remove DRM from iTunes music by burning an audio CD and ripping it back. Or you can turn to some DRM removal software like DRM Converter to convert DRM-laden iTunes m4p/m4v/m4b files. On Mac OS X, iMovie is already the perfect freeware for removing DRM from iTunes music. So the following article is dedicated to introducing several methods of removing DRM from iTunes music/video on Windows and Mac.

1. Remove DRM from iTunes music by burning an audio CD and ripping it back (Win & Mac, iTunes Music Only)

a. Insert a CD-R or CD-RW disc into your CD-ROM drive.
b. Burn DRM iTunes music to make an Audio CD. You cannot select the MP3 CD option since it requires the DRM protected iTunes music be converted to MP3.
c. After the Audio CD is successfully burned, insert the disc into your CD-ROM drive again. Then you can use iTunes to import the music tracks on the burned disc as MP3 files.

2. Remove DRM from iTunes music/videos using DRM Converter (Win, Music/Video)

a. Download DRM Converter, install and launch it. ( free download )

b. Import DRM protected iTunes music/video

c. Select the output format

By clicking the “Audio files to:” or “Video files to:” box, you can select the output format for the source iTunes DRM music/video (m4p/m4v/m4b). For example, if you want to watch DRM protected iTunes movies or TV shows (.m4v) on your PSP, you can choose “Game Hardware” from the profile category list and choose “PSP Video MPEG-4(*.mp4) as the output format.

d. Start to convert DRM iTunes music/video files

Click the “Start” button to begin to convert DRM iTunes music/video files. Then, you can enjoy iTunes music and videos without any restriction.

3. Remove DRM from iTunes music with Apple iMovie (Mac, iTunes Music Only)

Run iMovie and create a New Project.

In the iMovie window, select the ‘Music’ tab. You will notice that the top right portion of the interface now offers a media browser. Locate the playlist which contains purchased music, or search by artist/title.

Select the DRM-laden song and drag the file from the media browser into the iMovie timeline.

In order to export the song, iMovie requires that a visual image be associated with the audio track - iMovie thinks that it is going to be exporting a movie. Simply drag a blank image (or any other image) to the track above the previously imported audio file. Once iMovie has processed the image, select the ‘Export using QuickTime…’ sub menu item from found inside ‘Share’ in iMovie’s menu bar.

In the Save as… dialogue, select “Sound to AIFF” in the Export drop-down menu, Choose an appropriate directory for iMovie to export to, title the file, and select ‘Save’.

Locate the exported AIFF audio file and drag to your iTunes Library. Right-click on the file and select “Create MP3 Version”. Once completed, ‘Get Info’ on the new file, edit meta data, add album art, and trash the originally purchased and AIFF audio files from your iTunes library.

Note: If you fail to find the method that best fits you, you may take a look at this DRM Removals Software Review to get the best DRM removal tool to help you liberate your music/videos.

iTunes Mac supports video formats such as MOV, MP4 and M4V. In order to import WMV files into iTunes library, you need to convert WMV to iTunes compatible video format first. It is very easy and fast to convert WMV to iTunes MOV, convert WMV to iTunes M4V, convert WMV to MP4 on Mac for transferring to iTunes library using WMV to iTunes Converter for Mac.

Step 1. Add WMV Files

Download the latest version of WMV to iTunes Converter for Mac, install and run it.

Click the “Add Files” button to import the WMV files stored on your Macintosh HD. Then you can get the video information in the manager panel.

Step 2. Select Output Format

Video formats accepted by iTunes library include MOV, M4V, MP4, etc.

After the WMV files are imported, go to the “Output” panel. Click the “Profile” drop-down list to choose the format that iTunes supports. For example, if you want to watch WMV files on iPad, choose “Apple iPod/iPad” from the category. From the subcategory, choose “iPad H.264 Video”, “iPad H.264 HD Video” or “iPad MPEG4 Video” according to your needs.

Step 3. Start Converting

When all settings are done, click the “Convert Now” button to start convert WMV to iTunes format.

Step 4. Transfer Output Video to iTunes Mac

After the conversion process, launch your iTunes library. Then import the output video into the iTunes library.

iMedia Converter for Mac is the all-in-one Mac DVD and video converter that can rip DVDs to a variety of formats, including iTunes-, iPod-, iPhone-, and Apple TV-compatible MP4 files, and also offers video conversion for a host of formats, audio extraction from DVD and video files, including to M4R iPhone ringtones, video editing features, batch conversion, 5.1 audio output support, and more.

The following tutorial is going to show you how to rip DVDs to sorts of video/audio formats and convert all popular video formats from one to another for all portable players such as iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, etc. on Mac OS X (including Snow Leopard) using iMedia Converter for Mac.

Step 1. Download and Launch iMedia Converter for Mac (Free Download)

Step 2. Add DVD or Videos

Drag and drop the DVD disc image or video file(s) to the grey area. Or go to “File” menu, choose “Load DVD” or “Add Video/Audio files” and navigate to the files you want to add.

After a DVD or several video files are imported successfully, you can see all of them listed in the program.

Step 3. Output Settings

Click the output format icon to open the output format window.

Output File: The default output file name is the same as source file; you can rename it by yourself.

Format: Click the format to open the output format drop-down list and choose an output format you need. It provides optimized output settings for iPod, iPhone, PSP, iMovie, iDVD, Apple TV, YouTube, etc.

Video & Audio settings: Set video encoding settings by selecting a resolution, a frame rate, a video encoder and a bit rate; set audio encoding settings by selecting a sample rate, an audio channel, an audio encoder and a bit rate.

There are several Tips and Tricks you need to pay attention to while using this iMedia Converter for Mac to rip DVD and convert video on your Mac machine. You can split DVD movie or video clips, crop DVD movie or video clips, merge several titles or chapters into one, capture pictures (BMP, JPG) from video, add image or text watermark to DVD movie or video, etc. For example, if you just want part of the DVD movie or video, you just move the pointer over the thumbnail of DVD or video and choose “Split” from the pop-up menu. Or you can go to “Edit” menu and choose “Split”. Then drag the slider to the exact point you want to cut the video, and click the “scissors” button.

Step 4. Start Conversion

After all the necessary settings and editing job, the last step is to hit the “Convert” button to fire up this powerful conversion machine!