Blu-ray Ripper > User Guide

Get Started 1. Get Started


Note: We have both Windows version and Mac version for EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper. For the whole guide of EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper, we will mainly introduce the Windows version, and the Mac version has the same functions if there is no special remark..

1.1 - Download

Click the button below to download a setup file of EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper on your PC or Mac.

1.2 - Install

① Double-click easefab_blu-ray-ripper_install.exe the setup file.

Install EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper

② From the pop-up window, click Next to go ahead.

Install EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper

③ In the coming window, read the end user license agreement carefully and click I Agree to go ahead.

Install EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper

④ Then, browse the destination folder to save your installation files.

Install EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper

⑤ After that, click Install to finish the installation.

⑥ It will take seconds to install EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper successfully. A window like below will prompt you that you can click Finish button to open EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper at once.

Install EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper

⑦ After clicking Finish button, you will enter the main window of EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper shown as below.

EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper Screenshot

1.3 - Trial Limits

With the trial version of EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper, you'll have the limitations: At most of 3 minutes of every Blu-ray or DVD file will be converted.

※ This is the only difference between the trial version and registered version.

EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper Limtations

1.4 - Register

※ You will receive product information with license code via email once you complete the order.

① Launch EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper, click key-like Convert icon to enter the Register window.

Copy and paste the registration code to avoid any typos, then click the Register button to go ahead. Once your EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper is registered successfully, you'll see a pop-up registration successful page.

Successfully Register EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper

1.5 - Update

If you want to check if EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper is the latest version and update it, you can follow the steps below to update automatically.

Go to the Menu icon > Help > Check for updates...,

After that, a Update window will pop up to see if you need to update the program. You can also click Cancel to install it next time.

Check the version of EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper

Note: In case the Update window indicates check update failed Window as below, you could go to EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper's homepage or our Download Center to download the latest version. Or you could click the link below to upgrade EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper directly.

https://www.easefab.com/download/easefab_blu-ray-ripper_install.exe

Failed to Update EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper

You can change Check for updates automatically to Every Day/Week/Month/Never accordingly in Options Window by moving mouse cursor to Tools > Options.

EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper Options

Note: If you're used to using the same version all the time, please choose Never to stop the automatic update. Whenever you need an update, please choose Check for updates under Menu to make an update manually.




Get Started 2. Quick-Start Guide


You can operate Blu-ray ripping in 3 steps easily. Just do as following: Load Blu-ray (DVD) (Disc, BDMV Folder, DVD folder or ISO image file) > Select Output ProfileStart Ripping Blu-ray (DVD).

2.1 - Load Blu-ray (DVD)

Insert the Blu-ray disc into your Blu-ray drive, and click the Load Blu-ray button. The program will automatically load the contents on a Blu-ray disc to the program and list all the titles. You can also load DVD disc, BDMV Folder, ISO and DVD (Video_TS) Folder to this program.

※ A Blu-ray or DVD may contain many titles more than the main movie, such as the trailers or commercials. By default, EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper choose the longest title which is usually contains the main movie. And this helps ripping without converting unnecessary titles. And double-click one of the titles, and you can preview the movie in the Preview window on the right.

Load Blu-ray

(Optional) You can choose desired subtitle or audio track from the corresponding drop-down Audio or Subtitle lists. You're also allowed Add *.srt/*.ass/*.ssa Subtitle to your DVD movie if there is unwanted subtitle track there.

Select desired sub or audio track

2-2. Select Output Profile

Click Profile (located below where your files are displayed), you can choose a format or device from the list of preset profiles.

Select Output Profile

"Common Video" & "HD/4K Video"
You can choose commonly-used output format from the format list or customize which formats to be shown on the list. As you see, all regular video like MP4, MOV, MKV, WMV, AVI, FLV, with H.264/MPEG-4/HEVC codecs are provided. Moreover, there are available 4K outputs and HD outputs, etc.

"3D Video"
EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper can help you create your own 3D videos from Blu-ray/DVD movies. Click the Format bar, you can choose output format from the 3D Video format list or customize which formats to be shown on the list.

"Online Video"
Convert DVD to MP4, MPEG4 or FLV for YouTube, Facebook and other social networks.

"Common Audio"
If you want to extract the audio files from a Blu-ray or a DVD, you can directly choose an audio format here.

"Editing Software"
If you want to encode Blu-ray/DVD video for smooth editing, you can directly choose a professional "intermediate" or "production" codec like Apple ProRes, DNxHD, and more. here.

"VR", "TVs/Players", "Apple"...
If you want to convert Blu-rays/DVDs for playback on iPhone, iPad, Android, smart TVs, game console, etc. you can simply browse to find device and select it as the output format to get videos with optimized settings from corresponding category.

2.3 - Start Ripping Blu-ray (DVD)

(Optional) Just below Profile is Output, you can click the icon to change the location where you want to save converted video.

Change Output Folder

After everything is OK, hit the Convert button to n the lower-right corner to start ripping your Blu-ray or DVD.

The conversion process is shown below. You can Pause or Cancel the conversion. Also, you can tick off shut down computer after conversion, eject disc(s) after conversion, or open output folder when conversion completed.

Conversion Process

2.4 - 1:1 Blu-ray/DVD Backup

Besides ripping Blu-ray/DVD to digital video formats, EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper can also help you backup Blu-ray/DVD disc without any quality loss. There are two copy modes:


Full Disc Mode: Copy the whole content of disc
Title Mode: Copy the selected movie title


Disc Copy Modes



Full Disc Mode:

By choosing this mode, you can makes 1:1 copy of original Blu-ray/DVD disc without quality loss with all audio streams, subtitle tracks, extras, etc.

Title Mode:

By choosing this mode, you can copy selected movie title as a single VOB file. If you select the longest title, then you can copy Blu-ray/DVD main movie content and leave out extras, commentary, etc.




Get Started 3. Edit


EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper is preloaded with a video editor to output your desired video style. Learn how to adjust volumn, add subtitle, crop and trim Blu-ray or DVD video as follows.

After loading your Blu-ray or DVD file, select it and then click Edit Button button to pop up the Video Editor window.

3.1 - Trim

The Trim feature allows users to decide where to start and where to end when converting the selected clip, so that unwanted segments will be cut out after conversion.


Click Edit button to enter the video editor Window, and switch to Trim tab in Video Editor Interface and follow any of the methods below:.

1. Drag the control sliders video converter slide to include the segment you want to remain.

Trim

1. Click the left square bracket to set start point, and click the right square bracket to set end point when previewing the video.

Trim

3. Input specific values to "Start" and "End" box.

Trim

3.2 - Crop

The Crop facility enables users to get rid of the black edges and unwanted area of the image.


Click Edit button to enter the video editor Window, and switch to Crop tab and follow any of the methods below:

1. Drag the corner of the video frame or enter the specific width and height to set the crop area size. You can see the output preview simultaneously.

Crop

2. Crop Video by setting values.

You can customize values in the box of "Left", "Top", "Cropped Area Size" to to make your crop decision. You can also zoom your videos by keep original, stretch, Letterbox.

Crop

Check Apply to All and then you can apply changes to all videos you added.

3.3 - Apply Effect

EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper offers brightness, saturation, contrast adjustment as well as 4 filters for you to apply stunning video effect. Now follow the simple steps to make your Blu-ray or DVD video more stylish.


Click Edit button to enter the video editor Window, and switch to Effect tab to apply effect to your videos. You can easily adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation settings and select deinterlace as you need. There're also 4 widely-used filters for your selection, choose a favourite one and click OK to confirm.

Apply Video Effects

Check Apply to All and then you can apply changes to all videos you added.

3.4 - Add Watermark

If you want to stamp your videos with your name or other indentifying marks, you can add a watermark via the simple tutorial below.


Click Edit button to enter the video editor Window, and switch to Watermark. Under Watermark tab, you can create a text watermark to personalize your Blu-ray/DVD video. Type whatever text you want in the blank input field next to it. You can also adjust the font, transparency, vertical and horizontal position of your watermark.

Add Watermark

Check Apply to All and then you can apply changes to all videos you added.

3.5 - Volume & Rotate

There're clockwise, anticlockwise, flip horizontal and flip vertical 4 options for you to rotate the Blu-ray or DVD video. Moreover, you can easily increase volume in one step.


Rotate

1. Rotate 90° counter-clockwise.

Anticlockwise

2. Rotate 90° clockwise.

Clockwise

3. Flip Horizontally.

Flip Horizontally

4. Flip Vertically.

Flip Vertically

Volume

Drag the bar to increase or decrease volume

Adjust Volume




3.6 - Add Subtitles

Nothing's more frustrating than sitting down to watch a new Blu-ray or DVD or video file and realizing there's no subtitles in your language. Sometimes, even native speakers want to add subtitles to Blu-ray/DVD movies or TV shows just so that they can more clearly understand what the actors are saying. Fortunately, EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper is able to add external subtitles (*.srt or *.ass/*.ssa) to the Blu-ray or DVD movie as hard subtitles.

Step 1

Load the Blu-ray (DVD) Movie

Insert a Blu-ray (DVD) disc into your Blu-ray (DVD) drive, and click the load Blu-ray button. The program will add the Blu-ray (DVD) movie to the program and list all the titles. Double-click one of the titles, and you can preview the movie in the Preview window on the right.

Load Blu-ray

Step 2

Add subtitle

To add the subtitles you like, simply click Subtitle and click Add Subtitle tab to browse and import your *.srt, *.ass, *.ssa subtitle file you want to embed.

Add subtitles

After that, you can have a preview of the subtitle effect to make sure all goes OK .

Step 3

Start adding subtitles.

Before conversion, click the Profile bar and select an output format, e.g. MP4. Or, you can also directly choose a device to save MP4 video with subtitles to play on the device (e.g. iPhone, iPad, Galaxy Tab, PS Vita, etc). And then click the Convert button and now you have finished all steps of attaching subtitle to the Blu-ray or DVD movie.




Get Started 4. Settings


Here you can learn general preferences of the program and advanced settings of output video.

4-1. Clear

Click Clear button to remove all sources you added in the program.

Clear all loaded files

4-2. Options

Click Settings button or from Tools > Options to enter Options Window. Here you can set Output/Snapshot Folder, Duplicate files filter, change Check for updates automatically and check Enable NVIDIA GPU Acceleration.

Options

4-3. Output Settings

Click Settings button enter Settings Window. Here you can customize video audio codec, bitrate, frame rate, aspect ratio, resolution, audio codec, audio channel number, sample rate, bit rate, etc.

※ Please note: Adjusting these variables have some effect on the re-encoded video quality. Remember the file size and video quality is based more on bitrate than resolution which means video/audio bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss.

Advanced Settingss

4-4. Preview Window

After importing, all video files will be listed in the program. You can preview the imported movie file by double clicking or checking one of them and click the button under preview window.

By clicking the button under the preview window, you can take snapshot from the playing window as Thumbnail or for other use. By clicking the button, you can find the snapshots you took.

EaseFab Video Converter Interface

4-5. Merge Into One

Probably you want to combine several titles or chapters into a single one so that you can enjoy these videos without any interruption. More so, you can also cut the unnecessary scenes from these video files before saving them. Don't worry, with EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper which proves to be a good video combiner and cutter, you can join multiple titles or chapters together with ease.


To join them together, simply tick off Merge all videos into one file.

Merge all videos into one file

4-6. Media Information

EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper provides you with a quick access to the inner values of your Blu-ray or DVD files. It's quite easy to know the technical information of your Blu-ray or DVD files.


Move mouse cursor to the main menu File (at the top of EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper), and select Media Information. You can easily find your Blu-ray or DVD video resolution, frame rate, codec, bitrate, etc..

media info