Blu-ray Ripper for Mac > User Guide

Notes:

We have two versions of Blu-ray Ripper for Mac — 64-bit and 32-bit. All steps listed on this page are based on 64-bit version. The 32-bit version has the same functions.

A Blu-ray Drive or 4K UHD Blu-ray Drive is needed for operating 2D/3D or 4K Blu-ray ripping.



Get Started 1. Quick-Start Guide


You can operate Blu-ray or DVD ripping in 3 steps easily. Just do as following:
① Load Blu-ray (DVD)② Select Output Profile③ Start the Ripping.

1.1 — Load Blu-ray or 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. This helps ripping without converting unnecessary titles.

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 to add external subtitle to the movie if there is unwanted subtitle track there.

Select desired subtitle or audio track

1.2 — 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 DVD Ripper can help you create your own 3D videos from 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, Apple Intermediate Codec, 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.

1.3 — Start Ripping Blu-ray or 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 on 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.

Start Blu-ray Ripping

BD Backup — Blu-ray/DVD Backup

EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper for Mac can also being used as a Blu-ray/DVD backup software. You can copy directly from one Blu-ray/DVD to another, and create 1:1 digital copy as ISO image or folder for storing on hard drive, NAS, cloud storage, or somewhere else. There are 3 copy modes:

Blu-ray/DVD Backup



○ Full Disc Mode: Copy the whole content of disc

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

○ Title Mode: Backup the whole disc to ISO file

By choosing this mode, you can copy Blu-ray to a single M2TS file or backup DVD to a single VOB file. If you select the longest title, then you can copy Blu-ray and DVD main movie content and leave out extras, commentary, etc.

○ ISO Mode: Backup the whole disc to ISO file

By choosing this mode, you can create ISO from DVD disc. This ISO image file contains everything written on DVD.




Get Started 2. Edit


EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper for Mac 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 movie, select it and then click Edit Button button to pop up the Video Editor window.

2.1 — 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:.

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

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

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

Trim

2.2 — 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.

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.

2.3 — Apply Effect

EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper for Mac 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/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.

2.4 — 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 or 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.

2.5 — Volume & Rotate

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


Rotate

There're Rotate 90° counter-clockwise, Rotate 90° clockwise, Flip horizontal and Flip vertical 4 options for you to rotate the DVD video.

Rotate

Volume

Drag the bar to increase or decrease volume

Adjust Volume




2.6 — Add External Subtitles to A Blu-ray or DVD Movie

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.

Add External Subtitle

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.

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 3. 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 and change Check for updates automatically.

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 Rippre for Mac which proves to be a good video combiner and cutter, you can join videos 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 for Mac provides you with a quick access to the inner values of your Blu-ray or DVD movie. It's quite easy to know the technical information of your Blu-ray or DVD.


Move mouse cursor to the main menu File (The menus are listed at top of your Mac screen), and select Media Information. You can easily find the resolution, frame rate, codec, bitrate, etc. in your Blu-ray or DVD disc..

media info