"I got a ton of cool DVD movies, and want to import them into iTunes on MAC, but I don't want to buy them on iTunes again, I found that iTunes only reads MP4, MOV videos, so I need to rip and convert my DVD movies to iTunes MP4 or MOV formats first, then can import them into iTunes MAC."

While DVDs are high quality and you can rip them to your computer, they do have drawbacks, such as large file sizes(4-9 Gigabytes per movie) and obscure file-naming. By ripping a DVD to an AVI, MP4, MPEG or some other file, you benefit from small and portable file sizes, your own file naming. Also, the files can be used for video editing. Well, how to rip a DVD? Ripping a DVD to wanted formats like MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, and RM is really quite easy, if you have the right tools. Here's a tutorial that explains how to use an awesome program called Aneesoft DVD Ripper Pro for MAC to rip DVDs. You’ll first need to download the DVD Ripper Pro for MAC from Aneesoft. This DVD Ripper Pro for MAC allows you to rip the raw DVD video and audio data off of your disk drive, decrypt the CSS protection, and finally remove any other protection schemes, such as Macrovision. Read on the follow detailed steps.

Step1. Run the DVD Ripper Pro for MAC and load DVD files

Launch Aneesoft DVD Ripper Pro for MAC, insert the DVD you wish to rip into the DVD drive. Alternatively, if your DVD is saved as files on your computer, you can rip from there. To open DVD files which have been previously saved to your hard drive, click "Load..." to load IFO files as source.

Step2. Edit your video file (optional): crop, trim, add effects, add watermark and Deinterlace

Trim Video:

This Aneesoft DVD Ripper Pro for MAC allows you to trim your video, so you can capture your favorite video clips. Select the video you want to edit, and then click the "Edit" button on the top. An Edit window will be prompted. Click the Start Point and End Point to keep your favourite parts of video in Aneesoft DVD Ripper Pro for MAC.

Crop Video:

To watch your movies in full screen, you may crop videos to remove the black edges around your video with this DVD Ripper Pro. Click "Crop" tab to open the Crop Video window, and then check the "Enable Crop" option box. There are two methods available to crop your video: crop by a adjusting the crop frame and crop by setting the crop values. After you select an output aspect ratio and finish the crop, you can preview the final visual effect on the right "Output Preview" in real-time.

Set Effect:

If you want to adjust the video effect of your movie, you can click the "Effect" tab and then check "Enable Effect" option box. Drag each effect adjustment slider to set the video brightness and contrast. You can also choose a special effect from the Effect drop-down list to apply to your movie.

Add Watermark:

If you want to add watermark on your video, you can click "Watermark" tab and then check "Enable Effect" option box. You may add Text or Image watermark onto your video. If you want to add Text watermark for your video, click the Color or Font button to set the color and font your text. Drag and drop the text to anywhere you want. If you want to add image watermark, just check the Image option and select the image you want to add as watermark.

Step3. Change several settings in the Output Settings dialog box

Set the output setting as your wish on Mac, from the "Convert to" drop-down list, choose a wanted output format (AVI is suitable for playback in Media Player). And adjust the Resolution, Bitrates, Frame Rate and Audio Codec in section Export Settings. Then go to "Save to" to set the output directory.

Step4. Start ripping and converting DVD

Finally, click the big "Start" button to start converting DVD, the conversion will take some time. If you don't want to wait around during the conversion, just check "Shutdown when done".

Tips

* This DVD Ripper pro for MAC can rip DVD to all popular video and audio formats, like MP4, WMV, AVI, MOV, RM, 3GP, FLV...etc.  Also can rip DVD for most portable devices: Apple iPad, iPhone(iPhone 4), Apple TV, PSP, Mobile Phone and more.

* You may wish to delete any DVD files you have on your hard drive, following conversion, to save disk space. Make sure your outputted files like AVI or MPEG are of suitable quality before deleting the source.

* This DVD Ripper Pro for MAC works on any DVDs, copy-protected or not, but you should respect the copyright law in your country.

* To rip multiple movies (or chapters from movie serials) from the DVD, open up the DVD menu and choose the file that you want to encode for each file on the DVD.

* Allows you convert DVD to HD AVI, HD MPEG-4, HD MPEG-4 AVC, HD QuickTime MOV, HD WMV, HD FLV, HD MPEG-2, HD ASF, etc.

* If you are a PC user, please just refer to Aneesoft DVD Ripper Pro for Windows.