Comments on: How to Backup Your DVD Movies for Mac, Apple TV, iOS & iPod

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By: How to Remaster Your DVDs With Custom Options: Apple News, Tips and Reviews «

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:23:55 +0000

[...] Backing up your DVD onto your hard drive is the first thing you will need to do, and with a program called RipIt, it is as easy as inserting the DVD into your Mac and clicking a button. Once your DVD is on your hard drive, to remaster your DVD with just the movie file, all you need to do is: [...]

By: Rommel Fernandes

Rommel Fernandes — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:32:10 +0000

Thanks for the informative article, Geoffrey

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:33:30 +0000

Handbrake removed the ability to bypass copy protection a while back. Use RipIt to hard drive, then handbrake. Also, RipIt takes 20-30 minutes, Handbrake can take 1-3 hours for its part. Better to avoid that wear on the optical drive.

If you’re really getting into this, its a must to read this thread:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=805573

By: CP Staley

CP Staley — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:03:26 +0000

Comparatively speaking, which is quicker? Encoding with RipIT and then converting using Handbrake? Or doing the whole operation in Handbrake? Knowing that the end use of the file is to be AppleTV2 or iPhone use?

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:12:27 +0000

“Handbreak?” Don’t you mean Handbrake?

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=handbrake&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:57:20 +0000

I spent a while studying the docs and following the boards before converting 200 titles. The short of it is you should use the “High Profile” setting for DVD rips, use “AppleTV 2″ for Blu-ray rips.

Notice between the 2, AppleTV 2 sets a max res flag for 720p, HighProfile uses the source res. (For DVD this is fine). ATV2 enables the large filesize option is for files over 4GB. I’ve never had a DVD convert that large, so the setting is unnecessary and breaks compatibility with some devices like PS3. Finally, HighProfile enables the gentle deinterlace, detelecine options, which are desired for DVD. They check the screen grabs and only apply as necessary. When converting TV shows, this often gives a better picture and smaller file size.

These HighProfile files work on iPhone 3gs or better, iPad, AppleTv.