This step-by-step guide will show you how to rip, edit DVD to other video formats

This DVD Ripper guide includes 4 parts:
1. How to convert DVD to iPhone/iPod/PSP/Zune/Apple TV/Phone/PS3/Xbox 360/Zen/Pocket PC/AVI/MPEG/MP4
2. How to edit, combine and crop DVD movies?
3. How to extract and rip audio from DVD to MP3 for iPod nano, shuffle and other MP3 players?
4. How to put DVD clips on Youtube, Myspace

What you need is Aimersoft DVD Ripper; you can download it for free here:
http://www.aimersoft.com/dvd-ripper.html

Part 1. How to convert DVD to iPhone/iPod/PSP/Zune/Apple TV/Mobile Phone/PS3/Xbox 360/Zen/Pocket PC ?
Step1. Insert your DVD disc into your DVD-Rom, then run the software, click "Load DVD" button and add the DVD file. You can also add DVD/IFO from your hard disk by clicking "Load File".



Step2. This software can convert DVD to various video formats such as MPEG-4, AVI, WMV, FLV, 3GP, VOB, etc. Click the "Format" drop down list to select a format. If you want to copy DVD to computer in 1:1 lossless quality, please select "Lossless DVD Copy (*.vob)".



If you don't know much about mobile players, just select a format according to the name of your mobile player. For example, if you want to copy DVD to iPhone, just select "iPhone Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)", and the default setting works great. If you want to customize the output video, you can click the "Settings" button next to the format field to open the Settings window and set video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc.

Step3. Select Subtitle and Audio
Regular DVD movies usually have several subtitles such as English, French, German, etc. You can select one you prefer. You can also delete the subtitle by selecting "No Subtitle". Selecting Audio is the same.

After the above steps, click "Start" to start conversion.

Part2. How to edit, combine and crop DVD movie?
After you load the DVD file. If you want to cut the black edges of the DVD movie, you can click the "Crop" button, and then you will see a pop up windows (See the figure below). There is a frame in dashed line around the movie video; you can drag it to cut the black edges.

More over, you can click the Crop drop-down list to select a Crop model you prefer, for example: "Cut off top and bottom black edges". You can even type the number in the box to cut off black border accurately.

If you want to combine several DVD chapters into one file, on the main interface, there is a check box "Merge into one file", select it, then you will only get one output file instead of several files by chapters.

If you want to snatch pictures from DVD, while you previewing the DVD movie, there will be a small camera icon below the preview window, click it when you want to snacth the picture, it support output picture as JPEG or BMP format.

You can click the "Effect" button and customize the brightness, saturation, contrast, volume, etc (See the figure below). You can even apply special effects such as "Emboss", "Negative", "Old film" and "Gray" by selecting an effect from drop-down list.

Part3. How to extract and rip audio from DVD to MP3 for iPod nano, shuffle and other MP3 players?
This software can extract and rip DVD audio track to MP3, WMA, WAV, AC3, AAC, M4A and so on, if you want to rip the music from DVD to your MP3 players such as iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, Creative Zen, Zune and so on. After you load your DVD movie, in the main interface, select the output format as MP3, and then start conversion. If you want to get better music quality, you can select a higher audio bit rate and sample rate in the settings window.
After the conversion, drag the audio file to iTunes library, connect your iPod nano or iPod shuffle to your computer, and click iTunes "File -> Sync iPod", OK.
For PSP, just copy the music to the "Music" folder on your memory stick.
For Zune, drag the music to the Zune software, and click "start sync".

Part4. How to put DVD clips on Youtube, Myspace?
This software can convert DVD to FLV format for Youtube, Myspace and other video download sites. So you can share your own DVD clips with friends. After your movie is imported, select FLV as the output video format. Then log in Youtube, Myspace upload your video. But a whole DVD movie might be very large. By default, this software will convert the whole DVD to one file; if you just want several chapters of the DVD, you can just select the chapters you want to convert (you can preview the DVD clip before converting it).
Or you can click "Trim" button to open the trim panel, drag the trim bar to set start time and end time to convert a clip from your movie. You can also type the exact time values in the Set Start Time field and Set End Time field to trim video.