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Question: I own a lot of DVDs, I want to put on iTunes, which software actually converts copy-protected DVD movies to MPEG4 for my iTunes and iPod?
Answer: It is a piece of cake to convert DVD to iTunes, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV on Mac OS with DVD Ripper for Mac. This powerful software can help you convert DVD to MPEG-4 which iTunes support and rip DVD to all popular video and audio formats including MP4, AVI, MOV, M4V, 3GP, MPG, MPEG, FLV, MP3, M4A, AAC, AC3, ASF with excellent.

Part1. How to convert DVD to iTunes formats on Mac?

Step1. 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.

Step2. Output Settings

Output Filename: Name the output file for the current title/chapter.
Subtitle: Regular DVD movies usually have several subtitles such as English, French, German, etc.
Audio: Select an audio track from the available audio tracks of your DVD movie

Select an output format: Here you can select one of video formats which iTunes supports such as “iPod Touch MPEG-4 (*.mp4)”.

Set Video and audio solutions: If you want to customize the output VOB video quality, you can click the “Settings” button to open the Settings window and set video and audio resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc.

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.

Step3. Start Conversion
After setting the output settings, you can just click the Start button to start converting your Movie. You can choose to shut down your computer or open the output folder after conversion so you don't have to sit before your computer waiting for the conversion to finish.

Part2. How to transfer converted files to iPod, iPhone?

Step1.Connect iPod and launch iTunes
After the conversion is completed, please connect your iPod to your computer and launch iTunes. (If you have not installed iTunes, you can download it from this link download iTunes for free:http://www.apple.com/itunes).

Step2.Setting options
Click My IPOD under the DEVICES, choose the manually manage music and videos in the option in the summary window.

Step 3 Add the video you want to put to iTunes.
There are 2 ways to add DVD files to iTunes: the first one is dragging the DVD file from location directly to iTunes; the second one is clicking File and select Add File to Library (on the top of desktop) to locate your mp3 or mp4 files. Please see the picture. The added files will be automatically classified in the Music or Movies Category under LIBRARY.

Step 4.Put the video to iPod.
Click Music or Movies under LIBRARY, drag the music or movie from the library file list to My IPOD.

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