How to rip DVD movie to MKV and MKA on Mac
Althogh HandBrake can rip DVD to various video formats, whten you want to edit(Crop, Trim, Merge titles...) your DVD movie, Handbrake can't help you. We will provide Mac DVD Ripper to sovle these problems for you. Free Download the related Tool - Mac DVD Ripper, then follow the guide to edit your DVD for getting super MKV files. Step1. Run DVD Ripper for Mac. Insert your DVD disc into DVD drive, then click “Load DVD” button to import the DVD file. You can also load DVD folders from your hard drive by clicking “Load IFO”, DVD folders files name appear like "Video_TS”.
Step2. Edit video - Trim, Crop, Adjust effect
1) Trim If you want to capture certain part of the DVD movie, you can click “Trim” to customize the conversion time, there will be a timeline below the preview window, you can drag the little triangle icon to set the conversion start time and end time. See the following picture:
2) Crop video 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 specify an area by setting the crop values. You can select an output aspect ratio and the available options are: Keep Original, full screen, 16:9 and 4:3.
3) Adjust video effects - Emboss, Megative, Old film... 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.
4) Merge DVD Titles, Chapters into one File If you want to join 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. Step3. Select MKV or MKA as output formats You can select MKV or MKA as the output format from "Profile" section, set the video resolution, Bit Rate, Frame Rate and audio Sample Rate, Bit Rate, etc. see the following picture.:
Step4. Convert DVD to MKV After the above steps, click “Convert” to start conversion. When the conversion finished, you can click “Open” to locate the file in your hard drive.