How to make Blu-ray backup in the fastest way on Mac?

Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac is a powerful blu-ray disc ripping and copying solution for you to rip protected blu-ray discs and DVD movie into versatile popular video and audio formats. With the new release of v2.6, a new feature was added to support entire disc copy with one click. The ‘Disk Copy’ option helps users to make a successful and full copy of protected blu-ray movie in shortest time. The entire disc could be back up to your hard drive with an hour or even less. Now let’s see how to copy the entire Blu-ray disc to PC.

Before start please make sure you have a BD drive and the blu-ray disc is not damaged. Put the disc into blu-ray disc drive. Get trail version of Pavtube Mac Blu-ray ripper. Note that the trial version of blu-ray ripper copies blu-ray and DVD movie for only three times and have Pavtube logo on the screen.

Getting started
1. Import Blu-ray movie to Mac Blu-Ray Ripper.
Run Mac Blu-Ray Ripper and you will see the interface as it shows below. The ripper allows you to import blu-ray movie from both disc and folder. For Blu-ray disc, click ‘BD/DVD Folder’ and the ripper will detect and load the disc; for Blu-ray Folder, please click ‘BD/DVD Folder’ and browse to the Blu-ray directory (rather than individual m2ts file).
By default the files are listed in Title Mode, all the chapters are in numerical sequence for you to check individually. For checking the subordinate chapters of certain sequence, please click its plus sign. Generally, ‘Title001’ contains the main movie, and other Titles are commentary, menus, titles and ads.


(BD/ DVD Folder)

A fast way to select the main movie is, right-click in file list field and choose ‘Uncheck All’ in shortcut menu and then check the main movie (longest m2ts file). To check all the chapters,simply choose ‘Check Titles’. It is more than a Blu-Ray to MKV converter and can help you to remove Blu-Ray AACS encryption, region codes and BD+ copy protection, and copy Blu-ray to MKV movie with fast conversion speed.


(Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac- main interface)
2. Preview the blu-ray clips and take snapshots
Double-click on a file to preview when you would like to preview it. You can take snapshots when previewing the movie. Simply click ‘Snapshoot’ button. To locate the thumbnails, please click ‘Open folder’ button. To set image format, location and size of thumbnails, please click ‘Option’ menu.


(preview the movie clips)

3. Copy the entire blu-ray structure and contents to PC
To make a quick and full copy of the Blu-ray movie, you can click ‘Disk Copy’ button. In this way all contents of the Blu-ray disc will be copied to your hard drive, including the menus, titles, ads, etc. Disk Copy aims to help users to backup the whole contents of a blu-ray disc or standard DVD in the easiest and fastest way. The backup costs much less time than ripping movie to other format. With the Blu-ray and DVD structure, you do not have to create new menu when burning the blu-ray movie to blank blu-ray disc for backup.

4. Play m2ts files on Mac.
After the copy completed, you may click ‘Open’ button to locate the Blu-ray directory. Open BDMV-> STREAM folder and you will find all the m2ts movie clips. For playing the m2ts files, you may use VLC player or Mplayer.


(Play mts/m2ts file with VLC player)

[Good idea] Way to convert MVI files for PPT presentation

Many early digital still cameras, especially those manufactured by Canon, are capable of shooting a limited amount of video and saving the footage as an MVI file. MVI is actually certain type of AVI format. You may find it is neither supported by Windows Media Player, nor be edited in most editing software. However, chances are that you want to trim off certain part of the MVI file and insert the MVI files to PowerPoint for presentation. Well, if you are caught in this problem, Pavtube Video Converter might help you out. The converter, which is fairy powerful in converting videos of various formats for PPT, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas and universal portable media players like iPod, iPhone, Blackberry, Creative Zune, PSP and now even works with iPad, is proved to be a great MVI to PPT Converter. See below how to convert MVI to PPT compatible format and insert the clip to Powerpoint.

Part 1. Convert the MVI files to be compatible with PPT.
You shall download and install trail version of Pavtube Video Converter for converting MVI to PPT in advance.

Step 1. Import MVI files to Pavtube Video Converter.
Run the app and click "Add" button to import MVI files to the app (or simply drag and drop the source files into file list.) Double-click on it if you’d like to preview a file or take some snapshots.



Step 2. Set output format to be compatible with PowerPoint
Click the format bar and choose an appropriate format for output to PowerPoint. Follow PowerPoint-> WMV-2 (*.wmv) or MPEG-1 (*.mpg). You may also compress the file to save space by clicking “Settings” and set a smaller value in bitrate box.



Step 3. Specify output location for saving converted files
Click the small folder icon and browse to desired folder you would like to save the converted files.

Step 4. Convert MVI to WMV format
When all these are done, you can click "Convert" button to start. If you’d like to put some MVI clips into one file, please check the box “Merge into one file” before clicking “Convert”. In case that you need part of the clip, select the file and click “Edit” menu, then you can trim the video to any length under Trim tab and cut off unwanted part.

Step 5. Find the converted file
Click the “Open” button and the app will open the folder that contains converted files. Now the files are ready to be inserted to PowerPoint.

Part2. Add video to your PowerPoint.
Step 1. Open the PowerPoint file, within which you want to add the video.
Step 2. Click on a slide, which you want to display the video, and then choose Insert-> Object.
Step 3. Choose "Windows Media Player" as the object type in the pop-up "Insert Object" window.


Step 4. Right-click on the player widget, and choose "Properties".
Step 5. Enter the right path of the output video for the "URL" option.

Then you can show the clips on PowerPoint with small file size.

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How to use Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper rip/convert/backup your Blu-ray?

Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is a powerful Blu-ray editor, converter, and ripper. It removes the protections and enables movie lovers to backup, convert and edit both Blu-ray and DVD movie freely. With this easy-to-use tool you can rip your Blu-Ray discs and general DVDs at any length into other popular audio and video formats like AVI, ASF, MPEG, MP4, WMV, MKV, MOV, FLV, SWF, RM, 3GP, AAC, AC3, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA, M4A, etc for playback and edit. The following guide gives you a general idea of how to use Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper. You may clickhere to download free trial and have a try. For more details about this product, please visit Blu-ray Ripper. Mac users may visit Blu-ray Rippper for Mac.

A detailed guide on how to use Pavtube Blu-ray ripper is for your reference below:

1. Load Blu-ray and DVD disc/ Folder.
For Blu-ray disc, click ‘BD/DVD ROM’; for Blu-ray Folder, click ‘BD/DVD Folder’ and browse to the Blu-ray directory.
Note: Blu-ray IFO/ ISO image file is not supported by the current version.

a. Title Mode
By default the files are listed in 'Title Mod', all the chapters are in numerical sequence for you to check individually. For checking the subordinate chapters of certain sequence, please click its plus sign. Generally, ‘Title001’ contains the main movie, and other Titles are commentary, menus, titles and ads. By default all the Titles are selected for editing and ripping. If you want to rip the main movie and nothing more, do uncheck other sequences. If you would like to retain everything in the Blu-ray disc, simply use the default settings. If you want to keep the movie in sections as it was made of, uncheck all the Titles and check all the subordinate Chapters.

Tip: A fast way to select the main movie is, right-click in file list field and choose ‘Uncheck All’ in shortcut menu and then check the main movie (longest m2ts file). To check all the chapters, simply choose ‘Check Subchapters’.



b. File Mode
Click 'File Mode'??if you’d like to switch to file mode. In File Mode the movie clips are listed as they are made of. And you can check and preview each chapter.


Tip: In File mode all the m2ts files in file list are checked by default. If you want to select but the main movie, a fast way is to right-click and choose ‘Uncheck All’ in shortcut menu and then check the main movie (longest m2ts file).

c. Quick Copy
To make a quick and full copy of the Blu-ray movie, you can click 'Full Disk Copy'. In this way all contents in the Blu-ray disc will be copied to your hard drive, including the menus and titles. After the process completed, you may click 'Open' button??to locate the Blu-ray directory. Open BDMV-> STREAM folder and you will find all the m2ts movie clips.

2. Preview and Snapshoot
Double-click on a file to preview when you would like to preview it. You are allowed to take snapshots when previewing the movie. Simply click ‘Snapshoot’ button. To set image format, location and size of thumbnails, please click ‘Option’ menu. To locate the thumbnails, please click ‘Open folder’ button.



3. Select Subtitle and Audio track
Right below the file list you could find ‘Subtitle’ and ‘Audio’ drop-down list, where you may set subtitles and dubbings to the languages you like. Always select the title/ chapter before setting its subtitle and audio. In the preview window you can check the Subtitles and Audio track.

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Note: By default no subtitle is selected. Some chapters have no subtitle or audio, in that case the Subtitle list will show ‘None’ only.

4. Set output format
Click on Format bar to select an appropriate format from the profile list. Blu-ray Ripper features various output formats for portable players, removable devices and multiple editing software. You can click the up arrow and down arrow to view the formats. To further customize the format, please click 'Settings' button??and adjust advanced video/ audio parameters. For instance, when you rip Blu-ray to MKV container format for playback on HD TV, you can follow HD Video->HD MKV then click “Settings” and customize advanced audio and video parameters. For instance, you may set Video to 1920*1080p (to fit for the wide screen), 25mbps, 24fps, and Audio to AC3/AAC codec, 192kbps, 5.1 channels. Do not forget to click ‘OK’ to confirm your settings.



Tips on selecting format:
A. If you only want to backup the Blu-ray m2ts files to your hard disc, please select Copy->directly copy as output format. ('Full Disk Copy' copies m2ts files and the BD structure)
B. If you want to rip the Blu-ray movie to portable players like iPod, Archos 5/7, Creative Zune, iPhone, Gphone, Blackberry etc, first find the corresponding format group and then find a proper format (resolution) to fit for the model of your player (better check the screen resolution to make sure the format be right).
C. If you would like to rip the Blu-ray movie to Apple TV, PS3, Xobx 360 etc for enjoying on wide screen TV, you are recommended to select a higher resolution(1280*720 and above) for better effect. 5.1 sounds is available for some formats, not all. You could click 'Settings' button and check if 5.1 channels is available.
D. If you would like to rip Blu-ray movie for editing, please follow Powerpoint, Adobe Premiere/ Sony Vegas or Remux to transode the m2ts files to editable formats. To acquire lossless movie clip, Remux->MPEG2/TS is recommended.

5. Set output location
Either type in save path in Output field or click the small folder icon and specify a desired output location.




6. Start ripping Blu-ray disc.
Click on the 'Convert' button??and the program will rip Blu-ray movies to desired format. Blu-ray ripping is time-consuming. You can set auto shutdown in progress window (it pops up once you click Convert) or leave it there and come back later (the ripper will tell you how long it takes).




7. Find output files.
Click the ‘Open’ button??next to Output bar and the ripper will open output folder that the generated files saved to.

8. Play m2ts files on PC.
If you choose ‘Full Disk Copy’ mode or ‘Copy-> Directly Copy’ format, the ripper will copy the original Blu-ray m2ts files to your hard drive. To play the m2ts files, you may use VLC player or KMPlayer.

Editing features of Blu-ray Ripper
Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper also features some editing facilities. If you want to cut off black edges, trim the movie to desired length, divide the movie to multiple segments, replace the original audio with favorable music, add text/image/video watermark to the movie, rotate the image, adjust the volume of the movie etc, please click Edit

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How to get Blu-ray MKV video with 5.1 sound for WDTV

WD TV HD Media Player enables users to watch high-definition videos from Camcorder drive and USB storage devices freely on big screen HDTV. It supports quite a number of video formats, even DVD ISO image file. Many DVD collectors would rip DVD to ISO and play them back over WDTV so as to protect their DVDs from scratching and quality loss caused by playbacks. Some High-definition fans would be disappointed to find that Blu-ray ISO file can not be read by WD TV. But there is nothing to regret, still we have other way to go through. Since MKV video is well supported by WD TV HD Media Player, a best solution is to rip Blu-ray movie to HD MKV with Dolby Digital 5.1 channels, which is compatible with WD TV HD Media Player.

The following guide focus on how to rip Blu-ray disc to HD MKV with 5.1 channels. You could download the clean trial version of Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper from here. The trial version provides full access to the functions so that you could test the conversion quality. The application is proved to works stably on Windows 7. In addition, you need a BD drive, either internal or external.

Step One. Getting started.
Put Blu-ray disc in BD drive. Run Blu-ray Ripper for Mac and the interface below will pop up. Click “DVD ROM” to load in Blu-ray disc. It takes a few seconds till all the M2TS files be loaded to file list. Check the main movie and leave unwanted M2TS files unchecked. The main movie can be distinguished by its duration---the longest one. Below the file list you could find "Subtitle" and "Audio" droplist, where you can set output subtitles and dubbings to the languages you like.

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Step Two. Adjusting audio and video settings.
Right below the file list lays the “Audio” option, where you could adjust the dubbing to your native language. Tracks are identified by numbers so you have to listen by yourself to make sure which is the right one you want. You could view the files in preview window. Then click “Settings” and customize advanced audio and video parameters. Here you choose a favorable format from versatile video and audio formats. Since we’re talking about 5.1 sound, it will be a nice idea to choose HD Video-> MKV HD Video. Set "Codec" to "AC3" and “Channels” to “5.1 channels”, and confirm your settings by clicking “OK”.

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Step Three. Ripping Blu-ray to MKV and get 5.1 sound.
Finally click on “Convert” button to start ripping Blu-ray disc. Blu-ray ripping is time-consuming. You could set auto shutdown in progress window (it pops up once you click Convert) or leave it there and come back later (the ripper will tell you how long it takes).

Tip 1: A view log will pop up when you import Blu-ray movie to the app, simply click "OK" to confirm and close it. (or press Alt+O)

Tip 2: By default all the M2TS files are checked, you may right-click at the file list area and try "Uncheck All".

Tip 3: To eliminate the interlacing lines, you can perform "Deinterlacing" feature under "Edit"-> "Effect".

How to convert MKV to optimized FLV/ HD MP4 videos for Youtube?

You might have received some absorbing videos clips from your friends, which are in MKV container, or made a favorite movie from DVD to MKV with some free tools, now how share these videos with more people on YouTube? As we all know, MKV is not a good formats for YouTube. You got to convert them to something more common, like FLV and MP4, with proper resolution, length and size. How to convert MKV to FLV/ MP4 with optimal settings for upload? Although there are too many transcoding tools to choose from, few of them would allow you to process further editing such as cutting off unwanted parts, dividing a movie into multiple chapters (each less than 10 minutes and smaller than 2GB according to Youtube), adding some watermark to each of the chapter, and adjusting the aspect ratio. Surely you can import the video to editing software and handles it easily, but keep in mind that each time you convert a video from one type of compression to another, there will be some loss in quality. The best idea is to find a tool that can convert and edit MKV file---And Pavtube MKV Converter should be your top choice. In the following guide I will show you how to convert a MKV file to FLV format for YouTube.

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Convert MKV to FLV

1. Load MKV files
Run MKV Converter. Click ‘Add’ and browse to the MKV file(s) you would like to convert, select it and click open to load in as the picture shows below.

2. Set output format and location
Click on ‘Format’ bar to set output format. For common video, you may follow Flash Video-> FLV (H.264 encoded). For HD Video, you can select HD Video-> HD MP4. If you want to combine several MKV files as one, simply select them in file list and tick the checkbox ‘Merge into one file’. But keep in mind that any video longer than 10 minutes is probably rejected by Youtube. You may click the folder icon at the opposite side of ‘Output’ to specify output location.

3. Set advanced video and audio settings
Click on ‘Settings’ button to adjust video and audio parameters including codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, etc. The default resolution of FLV format is 320*240p (4:3), which is all right for YouTube. http://www.aniboom.com/

For HD MP4, a recommended config is 1280*720p, 1500kbps, 24fps, 44.8khz, in case that you would maintain best video quality.

Note: Transcoding (conversion) can not upgrade the video quality. Please set no higher resolution than the source video. You can select a file and click ‘Properties’ button under the file list to check the original resolution.

4. Arrange chapters and sections.
When a file is too big to upload, you have to divide it to multiple chapters. To select a specific section of the selected video for conversion, you could click ‘Edit’ menu, switch to ‘Trim’ tab, and input specific time point in Start and End box, and click Set button.

5. Add watermark to the video and set effect.
Switch to ‘Text Watermark’ tab, check the ‘Enable’ box, and input desired text as watermark. You may click the dots button to set font, color, and size of the text, and set the position of watermark in ‘Left’ and ‘Top’ box. To add Image or Video as watermark, you can switch to Image/ Video Watermark tab. To set contrast, brightness and saturation, please click ‘Effect’ tab. After setting, click ‘OK’ button to save settings and exit editor.

6. Convert MKV to FLV/ HD MP4
When back to main interface, click ‘Convert’ button to start conversion. Once click this button, the ViewLog will present you all the info such as conversion progress, conversion state, elapsed and estimated conversion time, and generated and estimated conversion file size. After conversion you can click the ‘Open’ button to find the FLV files and upload them to Youtube.

How to Convert M4V to MPEG for edit in iMovie?

iMovie is an useful and powerful tool for Mac users. You can bring video into iMovie from a variety of sources and devices so as to organize, catalog and edit the video, then share your movies with friends and family on the web, Mac or portable devices easily. However, you can not edit all the videos in iMovie. Today you can use a multiple of video devices to shoot video and get even more from web, which are in various formats. Although iMovie works with the emerging generation of video recording devices, there are some formats that are not supported. M4V is one of the few formats that iMovie will not work with. You have to convert M4V files to iMovie compatible format before you can import them to the software. This guide aims to shows how to convert M4V files to be compatible with iMovie. Please find a step-by-step guide below.

In order to convert M4V files, you need a Video Converter for Mac. And I recommend you Pavutbe Video Converter, which not only converts among versatile media formats, but also allows you to set video codec, bit rarte, frame rate, resolution, audio codec, sampling rate, channels, etc.

Step One. Load source files.
Run HD Video Converter for Mac and click on “Add” to import source files, browse to source video folder and click “Choose”. In preview window you could view the video and take snapshots. When the box of Merge into one is checked, all selected videos will be combined together as one output file after conversion.

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(Tip: you can click “Edit” button to perform edit functions such as crop, trim, flip, effect, watermark and audio replace. To eliminate interlacing effect, simply check Deinterlacing box under Effect tab.)

Step 2: Set Output format.
Click on “Format” bar when you’d like to specify an output format. As iMovie supports MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVCHD, DV and QuickTime format, you may select Common Video-> MPEG-2/ MPEG-4. MOV format is an alternative choice for your preference. If you want to further customize video and audio parameters such as video codec, audio codec, frame rate, bit rate, video size, audio channels etc, please click “Settings” to cofig them. Do not forget to click on “OK” to confirm your settings. In Export to box you could specify destination for the converted file.

Step 3: Start converting M4V to MPEG.
Click on “Convert” button to start Conversion. The converter will generate MPEG file with admirable video quality. After conversion you can edit the converted files in iMovie freely. See how to edit video in iMovie.

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