How to Put DVD into Apple iMovie for Further Editing

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One of the benefits about digital video is that the videos can be shared with family and friends. iMovie is created for this purpose, just several steps, you can add movies to your website, publish them on YouTube, and create versions for iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. However, the formats which iMovie supported are very limited: 3GP,MOV and MP4. If you want to put DVD to iMovie, you must convert DVD to the formats that are compatible with iMovie.

DVD Ripper for Mac offer you easy way to convert DVD to MP4, DVD to AVI, DVD to 3GP etc. And also, Mac DVD ripper can rip protected DVD as well. Below step-by-step tutorial will tell you how to put DVD movie into Apple iMovie.

Add DVD Movie 

Click "Load DVD" button, or "Load IFO" button to browse your computer, find the DVD folder or the VIDEO_TS folder you want to convert from your hard disc or DVD-ROM and click OK.



Choose to rip and convert DVD one or several chapters at will by ticking the check boxes before them.

Convert DVD to iMovie Video 

This Mac DVD ripper allows you to select output format in the drop-down list. Just choose iMovie compatible format (.MP4 and .MOV are recommended).
After all settings done, click "START" button to start converting your DVD.



Tips:
Merge into one file: If you want to join the selected titles or chapters into one file, check "merge into one file" option. Set an output directory to save the output files.

Put converted DVD into iMovie for Editing 

Open iMovie and choose "File->Import Movies" to import the converted Mp4 video or drag the file into iMovie directly. And then you can edit the movie according to your needs. As shown in the picture below:

To be continued... 

This just is a slice of multimedia editing with mac computer, other parts will come soon.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. :-)

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