How to Backup DVD on Mac OS X

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DVD Backup for Mac

Thanksgiving will soon be over and Chrismas is coming soon, sometimes you may need to backup your favorite movies to better save your original DVDs or share your DVDs with your friends. In that case, DVD Backup for Mac can be your best assistant by offering you more than one way to backup your DVD movies.

Best DVD Backup Software for Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)

Do you own a Snow Leopard and want to make "Backup" copies of your favorite DVD's?
If you want to know how to do, follow this guide, its fast and simple.

Step 1: Free download a program called DVD Backup for Mac, which is the best dvd backup software that can easily backup dvd to ISO file/VIDEO_TS Folder/dvdmedia or burn your DVD movies to a new DVD Disc on the Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
Step 2: Once you have the program and plenty of blank DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, DVD-RAM, Double/Dual Layer DVD available, you are ready to make a backup of your DVD's.

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1. Simply insert the DVD into your drive
2. Open up DVD Backup program
Note: the region does not really matter
3. Seclect output format
4. More Settings
5. Start burning DVD
This process should take about 30-45 minutes depending on the speed of your DVD drive.

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How to Backup DVD Movies on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)

Here is the step-by-step guide for how to copy or backup your DVD movies on Mac by using DVD Backup for Mac.

Step1. Insert DVD Disc
DVD Discs supported: DVD-5 and DVD-9; DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL, DVD-RAM.
After launched the program, this program will remind you to insert your DVD Disc.
Insert the DVD disc you want to copy in the DVD drive of your Mac. Then wait a moment for your Mac reading the data of the disc.

Note: Built-in DVD drive as the input source is recommended.

Step2: Select Output Method
After inserting DVD, you can choose to copy your DVD to a new blank DVD disc. If you insert D9 disc and want to compress it to a D5 disc, you can tick the D9 to D5 compression option to burn D9 disc to D5 disc.
Besides, DVD Backup for Mac allows you to copy your DVD to the hard disk of your Mac in three options:

VIDEO_TS: DVD folder with DVD structure.

.dvdmedia: A media file which can be played with DVD Player automatically by default when double clicking it.

.ISO: ISO image file.

Step 3. Settings for Movie Copying
After selecting output method, all the titles of the DVD will be populated in the file list. The are three options for your to copy your DVD movie.

Main Movie Copy: Copy the main movie which is the mian title in the file list.

Customized Copy: You can tick the titles you want to copy in the file list.

Full Copy: Copy the whole DVD movie.

Note: If there are two main titles which almost the same duration in the file list, then the mian title with the longer duration will be recognized as the real main title by default. You should play it manually to check whether is the main title you want to copy.

Check the option you want to output your DVD disc and then click Start to begin copying.

If you choose to burn your DVD to a new DVD disc, then a window will pop up after you click Start.

DVD Name: Type a DVD name for your output DVD Disc.

Burn disc in: Seclect a DVD Drive where you want to output the DVD disc.

Status: Show whether there is a disc on the DVD drive you selected.

Speed: DVD burning speed.

Copies: Seclect the number of copies you want to burn.

Step 4: Start Copying DVD
When the setting finished, the DVD backup program will start backuping DVD and save the data to a temperate file. After burning, the program starts encoding DVD and will inform you to insert a suitable blank DVD disc.

After the copy is done, a window will appear to inform you that the copy is finished. Click "OK" to close the window and end the copy.
Now you can enjoy your DVD movies with new disc and save the other one as collector's edition.

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How to Backup DVD to ISO File on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)

You must be confused when some of your favorite DVD movies became eternally unusable as it was over-scratched. You may consider if you had an ISO image backup, then you could still enjoy it. DVD Backup for Mac is the perfect solution to create burnable ISO image to backup DVD movies on Mac OS X. It offers Mac users a fast and efficient way to backup DVD to ISO file with the highest quality, and it's very easy to use.

This tutorial will teach you how to create a burnable ISO image from DVD on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard included).

Step 1 Launch DVD Backup for Mac
Free download DVD Backup for Mac here: http://www.aimersoft-mac.com/dvd-backup-mac.html

To install it, simply mount the .dmg archive by double-clicking it, and copy the application to your applications folder (or wherever you want).

Step 2 Insert DVD Disc
DVD Discs supported: DVD-5 and DVD-9; DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL, DVD-RAM.

Step 3 Select Output Format as ISO



Step 4 More Settings
Type the DVD name for the new ISO file, and choose the location where you want to save it. Also, this DVD Backup program offers you 3 copy options: Main Movie Copy, Customized Copy or Full Copy.

Step 5 Start Creating ISO Image
After finishing all the above steps, the software begins creating ISO image.

Now, you can enjoy the movies on your computer or share with others. In the future, you don't need to worry about how to save the DVD discs' life even if they are terminally unuabsle. And you don't need to rip the DVD's on your Apple Mac in order to back up them.

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