New to Mac..Can you feel the Burn?

projectfenix · Mar 12, 2007

Hello everyone. I'm new to the mac life, and I have to say I love it. I bought my mac book pro for recording with pro tools, but of course I want to do more. I am really interested in the ability to rip DVD's. I love movies and have a pretty good collection, but I just get sic of taking the movies with me out on the road and they get destroyed or lost. What do you recomend to help me get this going? I was pointed in the direction of Mac the Ripper, but not sure where to even get it, the website never pulls up. Well hope to hear from those wiser than myself. Thanks.

Roy

dtravis7 · Mar 12, 2007

You can get Mac The Ripper here.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14414

The main site is not going in for me either.

Kash · Mar 12, 2007

You may also want to take a look at Handbrake if you want to rip your DVDs to a smaller size to just watch on your laptop.

dtravis7 · Mar 12, 2007

Agreed on Handbrake. Excellent tool and the files are a lot smaller!

projectfenix · Mar 12, 2007

Sounds good. As for smaller files I think that might come in handy. From what I've found out some DVD's are double layered and Being able to shrink them will come in handy. Appreciate the insight I'm still new to this awesome world of mac. Peace

projectfenix · Mar 14, 2007

*** am i doing

I have to be doing something wrong. I just want to rip a dvd then back it up as a copy. i have mac the ripper, I have toast, I have media fork, and popcorn, but some how I can not make it work. I have no idea how to compress the files so i actually bought 8.5 GB dvdr's. What step am I missing? Here is what I am doing

Ripping to mtr
then attempting to put that file on toast and burn the disc, but some of the files can not be read by toast.

Hopefully some one can guide to the right direction. Thanks.

Roy

D3v1L80Y · Mar 14, 2007

NOTE: Merged threads

walmartconnect · Mar 14, 2007

What's with all of the bold statement's Roy?

rman · Mar 14, 2007

I use MTR and Toast 7. Toast 7 does the compression and then the burn. I believe that popcorn will do the compression also, you will not need the 8.5GB DVDs.

projectfenix · Mar 14, 2007

Alright....

I still have know idea what i'm doing. as for the bold statements who knows lol. but honestly if this were a pc i would be done, but i'm basically a retard on mac for the time being. Most things are so easy it's ridiculous and once i figure it out i realize how simple it was the whole time, but I can't seem to get this to work, so I might was well set fire to two $1 bills evertytime i try to burn a movie.

RiDE · Mar 14, 2007

Insert DVD... Let's say The 25th Hour.
Open MacTheRipper... it will "scan" the DVD..
Click GO on the MacTheRipper
I believe the default is to save the folder to the desktop..
Once MacTheRipper is done, it will say something like: "Complete... don't do anything illegal".. click ok. Then eject The 25th Hour DVD.

Now open Toast.
Click Video
Select Video from TS Folder (something like that).

Drag the 25th_Hour Folder from the desktop into the TOAST Window.
Click the RED button in the lower Right Corner (HUGE RED button

)
A pop-up will have some settings on it.. just click "OK"
Another pop-up will say something like "Please Insert Media"... Don't just stand there.. DO IT!!!

Insert your Blank DVD...

Go get some "Iced Milk" (Get a glass full of ice, and fill it with milk)while you wait....

When Toast is done you'll hear the "Ding!"... A pop-up will ask if you'd like to Eject or Mount.. Click Eject, and try it out in your Stand-alone DVD player.

Amen-Moses · Mar 14, 2007

RIDE said:
Insert DVD... Let's say The 25th Hour.
Open MacTheRipper... it will "scan" the DVD..
Click GO on the MacTheRipper
I believe the default is to save the folder to the desktop..
Once MacTheRipper is done, it will say something like: "Complete... don't do anything illegal".. click ok. Then eject The 25th Hour DVD.

Now open Toast.
Click Video
Select Video from TS Folder (something like that).

Drag the 25th_Hour Folder from the desktop into the TOAST Window.
Click the RED button in the lower Right Corner (HUGE RED button )
A pop-up will have some settings on it.. just click "OK"
Another pop-up will say something like "Please Insert Media"... Don't just stand there.. DO IT!!!

Insert your Blank DVD...

Go get some "Iced Milk" (Get a glass full of ice, and fill it with milk)while you wait....

When Toast is done you'll hear the "Ding!"... A pop-up will ask if you'd like to Eject or Mount.. Click Eject, and try it out in your Stand-alone DVD player.

Pretty thorough but you missed the bit about the Virgin and the Chicken bones.

Amen-Moses

projectfenix · Mar 15, 2007

thanks man. I just wasn't grabbing the ts folder much appreciated

Simbad54 · Mar 18, 2007

You could also try DVD Ripper For Mac.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24349
You can rip to loads of diferent formats, e.g. for an iPod.
Then try Dragon Burn. Although it's not free(i think you can use it 10 times on Demo before you need the licence)
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19061
Worked for me.

Bluesmudge · Mar 19, 2007

Oops. Please Delete this.

Bluesmudge · Mar 19, 2007

Or if you don't want to bother with DVD's at all, take another look at handbrake. http://handbrake.m0k.org/
Its nice to have everything on your hardrive.