If you are fond of some video clip from a DVD movie and want to edit it in your iMovie project, you got the right place. The following article will share with you how to put both commercial and non-commercial DVD into Apple iMovie project.

Video formats accepted by iMovie include MPEG-2 and AVCHD, DV-Standard and HDV (High Definition Video), QuickTime Movie, MEPG-4. If you want to import commercial DVD to iMovie, you need to convert DVD to the video format iMovie supports first. I would recommend using DVD Ripper for Mac to DVD to MP4 or QuickTime Movie. It supports converting encrypted DVD’s. Just follow these steps to convert and import DVD to iMovie:

Step 1. Install and Run DVD Ripper for Mac. (free download)

Step 2. Load DVD movies

Insert your DVD movie into your DVD drive. Click the “Load DVD” or “Load IFO” button to load your DVD.

Step 3. Convert DVD to iMovie on Mac OS X

After you add your DVD movie, you can choose any titles or chapters you want to convert by ticking the check boxes before them so that you can choose to convert DVD with the entire movie or just one or several chapters at will; or you can choose to convert a segment of the DVD movie .

Then select the the iMovie friendly file such as MP4 as the output format. After setting the output settings, you can just click the Convert button to start converting your Movies.

Step 4. Import the output MP4 files into iMovie.

Open iMovie and choose File -> Import Movies to import the converted Mp4 video. And then you can edit the movie according to your needs.

If you are going to import non-commercial DVD into iMovie, you just:

1. Insert DVD.
2. Open Disk Utility.
3. Select the disk and then select “New Image”. Save the disk image wherever is convenient, such as the desktop.
4. Once the disk image is written, open iMovie.
5. Mount the new disk image. A “Camera Detected, Scanning Contents” window will appear in iMovie, followed by an import window. You can now import the DVD contents and start editing away.

The following step by step guide will share with you how to remove DRM from protected WMV and at the same time convert DRM protected WMV to DVD for backup, enhancement or playback on traditional TV sets, home DVD players with Media Converter Ultimate.

Step 1. Download Media Converter Ultimate, install and run it. (free download)

Step 2. Remove DRM from protected WMV

Click the “Add” button to load DRM WMV files. After making some necessary settings, click the “Start” button to begin the conversion.

Step 3. Burn iTunes movies and TV shows to DVD

After the conversion, there is a pop-up dialog asking you to either “Burn to DVD” or “Copy to Devices” (media transfer). Choose the former and a window will pop up, with the (DRM free) files you just converted listed ready to be burnt.

Click “OK” to go to the next “Burn to DVD” window, where you can choose a menu template, set background image/music, etc for the output.

Click “Next” to make further DVD burning settings. You can choose to burn to DVD drive (insert a DVD disc first), burn to ISO file or burn to DVD folder. You can also specify the output path for the ISO file or DVD folder, choose TV Stardand (NTSC or PAL), Aspect Ratio, etc for the output. Besides, the software will estimate result file volume for you. Click “Start” and the whole DVD burning progress gets started.

The burning status will be clearly shown in the progress bar. After the whole burning process, you can get the output files and start to enjoy your favorite WMV files on a DVD player.

Extracted from http://www.softdiggs.com/howto/convert-protected-wmv-to-dvd.php

M2TS files are raw AVCHD videos recorded using Sony’s camcorders, such as the HDR-SR series models. Panasonic, Canon and other brands of AVCHD camcorders also record in M2TS format.

The following tutorial will show you how to convert M2TS files to all sorts of video formats like M2TS to AVI, M2TS to MOV, M2TS to MP4, M2TS to FLV on Mac OS X (including Snow Leopard) with M2TS Converter for Mac.

Step 1. Download M2TS Video Converter for Mac and run it. (free download)

Step 2. Load the M2TS files you want to convert

Drag and drop the M2TS files to the program or you can click the “Add Files” button to browse your computer hard disc and add the .M2TS files you want to convert to the program.

Batch conversion is also supported by this M2TS Converter for Mac, so you can load several M2TS files at one time.

Step 3. Output Settings

After you added M2TS files, you can select an output format for each video file and specify a directory on your computer to save the output files.

This M2TS Video Converter supports comprehensive video formats including AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, MOV, XviD, 3GP, FLV, etc.

If you don’t know what formats your device supports, you can just select the format according to the device name. For exapmle, you can select ‘MOV-QuickTime(*.MOV)’ when you want to convert M2TS to MOV for QuickTime on Mac. The default setting works well. Of course, if you don’t want to use the default video and audio encoding settings, just click the “Settings” button to customize these settings.

Step 4. Edit your M2TS Files

M2TS Video Converter can help you set video brightness, contrast, saturation, crop video, trim video and even merge multiple files into one single file.

1. Capture a clip from your video file

Click “Trim” button to open the Trim window, and set the starting time and ending time by dragging the slider then you can convert a clip from M2TS footage on Mac OS X.

2. Crop M2TS footage

If you want to remove the black borders or just convert part of the video area from your video file, you can click the “Crop” button to crop the video of the current video file by dragging the frame around the video.

3. Video effect

Click the “Effect” button and drag each effect adjustment slider to set the video brightness, contrast, saturation and audio volume. You can also choose to flip the video and apply a special video effect to your video file by selecting a special effect from: Gray, Emboss, Old Film and Negative.

Step 5. Start the M2TS conversion

Click the “Convert” button to start the M2TS conversion and then you can just go out for a walk or take a nap, and the conversion may have been finished when you come back.

Note: The above tutorial is for Mac OS X users. If you are using Windows, please read this guide about how to convert M2TS/MTS to AVI MP4 MOV FLV instead.

iTunes doesn’t allow users to burn iTunes movies or TV shows to DVD directly. If you want to burn movies or TV shows downloaded from iTunes store on to a DVD for playback on your DVD player or backup iTunes movies and TV shows to DVD discs, you’ll need to get a DRM removal tool to remove the iTunes Digital Rights Management (DRM) license protection first and then find a DVD authoring program to convert the DRM free Video to DVD format for burning to DVD.

The only tool you need is Media Converter Ultimate (Free Download), which combines into one prgram the functions of DRM Removal, DVD Creator, DVD Ripper, Media Converter, Media Transfer, etc.

The following step by step guide will share with you how to remove DRM from iTunes M4V movies and TV shows to burn iTunes M4V to DVD for backup, enhancement or playback on traditional TV sets, home DVD players with Media Converter Ultimate .

Step 1. Remove DRM from iTunes movies and TV shows

Click the “Add” button to load iTunes media. iTunes movies and TV shows are usually located in the Movies and TV Shows folders under *:\My Documents\My music\iTunes\iTunes Music. After making some necessary settings, click the “Start” button to begin the conversion.

Step 2. Burn iTunes movies and TV shows to DVD

After the conversion, there is a pop-up dialog asking you to either “Burn to DVD” or “Copy to Devices” (media transfer). Choose the former and a window will pop up, with the (DRM free) files you just converted listed ready to be burnt.

Click “OK” to go to the next “Burn to DVD” window, where you can choose a menu template, set background image/music, etc for the output.

Click “Next” to make further DVD burning settings. You can choose to burn to DVD drive (insert a DVD disc first), burn to ISO file or burn to DVD folder. You can also specify the output path for the ISO file or DVD folder, choose TV Stardand (NTSC or PAL), Aspect Ratio, etc for the output. Besides, the software will estimate result file volume for you. Click “Start” and the whole DVD burning progress gets started.

The burning status will be clearly shown in the progress bar. After the whole burning process, you can get the output file and start to enjoy your favorite iTunes movies and TV shows on a DVD player.

Extracted from http://www.softdiggs.com/howto/burn-itunes-m4v-movies-tv-shows-to-dvd.php

The following DVD to iTunes Mac guide is going to share with you how to convert DVD to iTunes format, transfer DVD to iTunes Mac for iPod and iPhone using DVD Ripper for Mac. It also shows several tips and tricks you need to pay attention to while using this Mac DVD Ripper to convert DVD to iTunes video on your Mac machine (including Snow Leopard).

Step 1. Launch Mac DVD Ripper and add DVD Movie (Free Download)

Click the “Load DVD” button, and navigate to the DVD folder of the movie you want to add from your hard disc or DVD-ROM, open DVD folder, select VIDEO_TS folder and click OK.

Or, click the “Load IFO” button, find the DVD folder of the movie you want to add from your hard disc or DVD-ROM, open your DVD folder, open the VIDEO_TS folder, select all IFO files and click OK.

After you add your movie, you can choose any titles or chapters you want to convert by ticking the check boxes before them. So that you can copy and convert the whole DVD movie or just convert the selected titles or chapters. You can choose to convert certain segment of the DVD movie using trim function.

Step 2. Output Settings

iTunes supports .mp3, .aac, .aiff, .m4a, .wav music and .mp4, .mov video. Select one format that best meets your needs in the “Format” drop-down list as the output format. This Mac DVD Ripper can also rip DVD to MP4, AVI, M4V, 3GP, MPG, MPEG, FLV on Mac OS X and convert DVD from PAL to NTSC.

Step 3. Start Conversion

When output settings are done, click 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 & Trick 1. Trim movie clips

Tick the Check boxes of the chapters or titles you want to trim, and click the “Trim” button to open the Trim window below:

Drag the slider to set the starting time and ending time, click OK.

Note: You can preview the trimmed movie clip before conversion in preview window.

Tip & Tricks 2. Crop movie clips

Check the chapter or title you want to trim, and click the “Crop” button to open the Crop window.

Select an output aspect ratio and the available options are: Keep Original, full screen, 16:9 and 4:3.

Note: You can enter the crop values manually or drag the rectangular selection frame round the video to select the displaying area.

Tip & Trick 3. Merge several titles or chapters into one file

You’ll find “Merge into one file” at the bottom of the program window, after you select the titles and chapters you want to rip and finish the output settings, you can tick the check box of “Merge into one file” to merge several titles or chapters into one. This allows you to merge all movie titles into one output file so that you can enjoy a long movie without breaks.

It is recommended that you choose iMedia Converter for Mac (perfect combination of Mac DVD Ripper and Mac Video Converter) if you want to both rip DVD and convert video on your Mac machine.

There is an way of making custom ringtones for iPhone using only iTunes. However, you can only follow this method to make iPhone ringtones using DRM free music in iTunes library. If you want to custom a .m4r ringtone with protected iTunes M4P or DRM protected WMA music, you’ll have to turn to a DRM removal software to get it DRM free first. What’s more, if you are fond of some audio/sound clip from a video file and want to set it as your iPhone ringtone, the iTunes method fails to help too. What’s going to do next?

ImTOO iPhone Ringtone Maker comes to the rescue! This piece of iPhone ringtone creator software can help you turn virtually any music/sound source into iPhone .m4r ringtone. It can also trim audio clips from video files (in all popular video formats) as iPhone ringtones. Now let’s take a look at the detailed steps:

1. Download ImTOO iPhone Ringtone Maker, install and launch it.

Free Download

2. After the main interface pops up, click the “Browse” button to select the video or audio file with which you want to custom an iPhone ringtone from the dialog box that pops up and then click the “OK” button. You will see the file path and name are displayed in the “Input File” text box.

3. Click the “Play” button to listen to the music before creating an iPhone ringtone and locate the part you really want, then drag and drop the start & end sliders to get the music clip. Or you can directly input the start & end time in the “Start Time” and “End Time” text boxes respectively.

4. Set output folder by clicking the “Browse” button on the right side of the “Local Output File” label.

5. If you want ImTOO iPhone Ringtone Maker to help you transfer the ringtone to iPhone directly after conversion, check the “Export to iPhone” option.

6. After finishing the steps above, click the big button at the right bottom to start creating your own iPhone ringtone. During the creation, you can check the process by the progress bar at the bottom.

Just in a few minutes, you can make your own iPhone ringtone with the music/video you love.

Note: If you are running Mac OS X, you can choose this Mac iPhone Ringtone Maker to help you create ringtones for iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS on your Mac machine.

The following tutorial is going to show you how to rip DVD and convert video to all sorts of video and audio formats on Mac OS X (including Snow Leopard) using only one tool - iSkysoft iMedia Converter for Mac. It also shows several tips and tricks you can’t miss out on while using this iMedia Converter to rip DVD and convert video on your Mac machine.

Step 1. Download iSkysoft iMedia Converter for Mac, install and launch it.

Free Download ( Intel Version | Power PC Version )

Step 2. Add DVD or Video

You can click “Load DVD” button to load DVD or click “Add Video” to import video files for conversion.

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

Step 3. Output Settings

Choose the output format you want. After you choose a format from the “Profile” list, it is the time to check out the Setting panel:

Profile: Click here to know which formats iMedia Converter supports.
Settings -> Video: Set video encoding settings by selecting a resolution, a frame rate, a video encoder and a bit rate.
Settings -> Audio: Set audio encoding settings by selecting a sample rate, an audio channel, an audio encoder and a bit rate.

Tip:
You can customize the video and audio encoding settings and save them as your own profile. After you have chosen the encoding options, just click the “Save as” button and name your profile, and then the profile will be saved in the “User Defined” list. You can use the customized profile next time by selecting it from the list.

Apply to All: Check this option to apply the current profile to all the files.
Merge into one file: Check this option and the program will convert all the selected video files into a single file.

Step 4. Start Conversion

After all the necessary settings and editing job, the last step is clicking the “Start” button to start ripping DVD and convert video on your Mac machine with this powerful iMedia Converter for Mac.

Tips and Tricks:

Before clicking the “Start” button, you can do a lot more DVD/video editing jobs like DVD movie/video length trimming, video cropping, adding special effects, adding watermark, capturing images during previewing, etc. For example, If you want to capture a clip from the current title/chapter, you can click the “Edit” button to open the “Trim” window and trim the current title or chapter.

In “Edit” panel, there are 3 methods to do the trimming job:

1. Input value. Input certain time number in Set start time and Set end time fields manually.
2. Drag the sliders in the playback progress bar to set start time and end time quickly:
3. Insert trim start and end flags when you are previewing an video file in Edit panel.

Note: If you are using Windows OS, it is recommended you try Aimersoft Video Converter Pro to help you rip DVD and convert video to your iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, BlackBerry and a lot more mobile players.

I have recently purchased a movie and I downloaded it to my PC. The movie is a great movie and my sister asked if I could put it on her mp3 player. The thing is, I know from the website that the movie will have DRM. Can I remove the DRM? I mean I purchased the movie legally. I really don’t think DRM was meant for consumers like me.

Has this problem frustrated you too? If so, just follow the step by step guide below to learn how to remove DRM from purchased WMA WMV files so that you can play them on iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, BlackBerry, Creative Zen, burn them to DVD discs, etc.

The only tool you need is Daniusoft Media Converter Pro, which acts as a DRM Removal, a Video Converter, an HD Video Converter and an Audio Converter.

Step 1. Download Daniusoft Media Converter Pro (free download), install and launch it.

Step 2. Add protected WMA WMV files

You can import DRM protected WMA WMV files in three ways:

a. Load files by clicking the “Add…” button.
b. Directly drag and drop files to the left main window.
c. Right click on the left main window, click “Add files”.

Step 3. Select the output format

By clicking the “Convert audio to:” or “Convert video to:” box, you can select the output format for the source WMA WMV files. For example, if you want to watch the DRM protected WMV video on your iPod Touch, you can choose “iPod” from the profile category list and choose “iPod Touch MPEG-4(*.mp4)” as the output format.

Note: This DRM Removal Software also allows you to customize the video/audio parameters for the output files if you are not satisfied with the default settings or cannot find the most appropriate output format for your specific mobile player. Just click the “Settings…” button to make the settings.