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Wondershare DVD to MP4 Converter for Mac

iPod, iPhone, Apple TV and PSP are four popular player devices, and lots of users like to put their DVD movies on these devices to watch. It is easy to find converters for each of them, however, you will need to get four converters if you have more than one of these four devices. And for Mac users, the choices are even more limited. Wondershare DVD to MP4 Converter for Mac is a special tool designed for Mac OS users to converter DVD to iPod, iPhone, Apple TV and PSP. So you can kill four birds with one stone with this useful Mac DVD converter:) . Below are the steps to convert your DVD with Wondershare DVD to MP4 Converter for Mac:

Step 1: Import DVD Movies

Click the Load DVD button, select the folder of your DVD movie, and click OK. If the movie is on your disc drive, you can just select the drive and click OK.

Or click the Load IFO button, open the folder of your DVD movie, and you will find two folders in it: AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. Open the VIDEO_TS folder, select all the IFO files, and then click OK.
After the movie is imported, you can see all the chapters and titles in it, and then you can check the ones you want to convert. If you want to convert the whole movie, you can just keep all the titles or chapters checked.
Step 2: Output Settings

Before the conversion, there are a few settings you should make:
Select an output format from the Format drop-down list. (Here you can select an MP4 format for iPod, iPhone, Apple TV or PSP).
Click the Settings button to set encoding settings including video resolution, frame rate, bit rate and video encoder, audio encoding settings including sample rate, channel, bit rate and audio encoder.

Name each title/chapter in the Output Filename field, and select the subtitle and audio track for the titles/chapters.

Note: You can check the “Merger into one file” option to join all the selected DVD titles/chapters into one file instead of creating a separated file for each title/chapter.

Step 3:Click the Start button to start the conversion. And now you can just go talk a walk and wait till the conversion is completed. After that, you can just transfer the created files to your MP4.

Tip 1: Trim Movie
If you just want to convert a clip from your DVD movie, you can click the Trim icon to capture a clip. In the Trim window, you can trim the length of the current title/chapter by either dragging the Start Time and End Time sliders or setting the time parameters in each corresponding field.

Tip 2: Crop Video

If you DVD video has black sides, you can use this Crop function to remove them. Click the Crop icon to open the Crop window, and set the crop area by dragging the crop frame or setting the four crop parameters (Top, Bottom, Left and Right).

Tip 3: Movie Effect

If you are not content with the original effect, you can click the Effect icon to set the video brightness, contrast, saturation, and audio volume. You can also choose to apply a special effect to your movie video from effects including Gray, Emboss and Negative.

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