EaseFab LosslessCopy for Mac (32-bit) User Guide

Load the source Blu-ray/DVD Files

Insert the Blu-ray disc to the Blu-ray Disc drive or DVD to the DVD-ROM and click the button to have movies uploaded to the LosslessCopy for Mac. Here you can also import Blu-ray/DVD folders, ISO files and IFO files to convert.

Tips: A Blu-ray or DVD may contain many titles more than the main movie, such as the trailers or commercials. By default, EaseFab LosslessCopy 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.

Select Multi-Track Video Output

This is the unique feature of EaseFab LosslessCopy. There are four multi-track output formats available for you to choose from – Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV, Multi-track MP4, Multi-track MOV and Multi-track Interlaced DV PAL Video (*.avi). Click Format bar (located below where your Blu-ray's or DVD's files are displayed) and select the multi-track format you want from the drop-down list of Multi-tack Video catalog.

Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV

EaseFab LosslessCopy transfers video from Blu-ray/DVD to MKV container in two ways, lossless output and encoded output. Both the two ways enable users to preserve wanted audio tracks and subtitles streams in the source movie.

Actually, all audio & subtitles tracks in a source file are checked to be saved in the MKV container by default, if there are some tracks you don’t like, you can click Settings button and go to Multi-task Settings window to uncheck and remove them under Audio tab and Subtitle tab.

Multi-track MP4/MOV and Multi-track Interlaced DV PAL Video (*.avi)

Unlike multi-track MKV, the three formats only support encoded output. Users can choose their desired audio tracks to be kept in the output file, but subtitles streams are banned to choose from.

Start conversion

Once you've selected the output file format you want, you're ready to rip. Simply click the button to let the software start converting your Blu-ray or DVD files. The ripping time depends on the quality and duration of the output movie. Wait for the conversion to be done and click Open ouput folder to get the converted video files.

Load the source Blu-ray/DVD Files

Insert the Blu-ray disc to the Blu-ray Disc drive or DVD to the DVD-ROM and click the button to have movies uploaded to the LosslessCopy for Mac. Here you can also import Blu-ray/DVD folders, ISO files and IFO files to convert.

Tips: A Blu-ray or DVD may contain many titles more than the main movie, such as the trailers or commercials. By default, EaseFab LosslessCopy 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.

Choose Regular Video Format Ouput

Click Format (located below where your Blu-ray's or DVD's files are displayed) and select the format you want from the drop-down list. Just below Format is Output, here you can click Browse button to browse your computer for a better destination folder for LosslessCopy to save your converted movies. All regular video and audio formats like MP4, MOV, MKV, WMV, AVI, FLV, MP3, WMA, WAV, M4A, etc. are provided.

Tips: The default setting works well. Of course, if you want to customize video and audio encoding settings, just click the Settings button to customize these settings. You can adjust the output video/audio resolution, frame rate, bit rate, etc. to customize the output files to get the best quality you want.

Start conversion

Once you've selected the output file format you want, you're ready to rip. Simply click the button to let the software start converting your Blu-ray or DVD files. The ripping time depends on the quality and duration of the output movie. Wait for the conversion to be done and click Open ouput folder to get the converted video files.

Load the source Blu-ray/DVD Files

Insert the Blu-ray disc to the Blu-ray Disc drive or DVD to the DVD-ROM and click the button to have movies uploaded to the LosslessCopy for Mac. Here you can also import Blu-ray/DVD folders, ISO files and IFO files to convert.

Choose the output device

Click Format (located below where your Blu-ray's or DVD's files are displayed) and select the format you want from the drop-down list. To convert your movies for play on portable devices, including iPhone, iPad, iPod, HTC, Samsung Galaxy Tab S, Galaxy Phones, Nokia, Sony, PS4, Xbox One and more, You can simply browse to find the icon of your device and select it as the output format to get videos with optimized settings.

Tips: The default setting works well. Of course, if you want to customize video and audio encoding settings, just click the Settings button to customize these settings. You can adjust the output video/audio resolution, frame rate, bit rate, etc. to customize the output files to get the best quality you want.

Kindly Note: Remember the file size and video quality is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss.

Start conversion

Once you've selected the output file format you want, you're ready to rip. Simply click the button to let the software start converting your Blu-ray or DVD files. The ripping time depends on the quality and duration of the output movie. Wait for the conversion to be done and click Open ouput folder to get the converted video files.

1:1 BD/DVD disc backup - Copy The Entire Disc

Simply click the button and LosslessCopy will directly start to backup the whole content of a Blu-ray or a DVD without losing anything.

Directly Copy - Copy Main Movie Without Extras

Click on the "Format" bar and choose "Copy" > "Directly Copy" format from drop-down list. This will allow you to copy main movie from Blu-ray/DVD discs and leave out extras.

Trim

You can trim off unwanted parts from start and end. You can either drag pointers on the process bar or set exact time point in Start and End boxes to set.

Crop

You can drag the edges on play window to specify or adjust parameters. You can also click the human button to switch to advanced mode. And then you can set display aspect ratio as well as output ratio and output mode.

Text Watermark

Check Enable, you can add text watermark to selected video clip. You can either set parameters or drag the text on preview screen to set its location.

Image/Video Watermark

Check Enable, you can add images or videos as watermark onto selected video file. The location can also be set by dragging on the preview screen.

Effect

Under Effect tab, you can add special effects like Simple Gauss Blur, Flip Color, Invert, Aged Film to your source video. In Color Control section, you can correct color by by adjusting brightness, contrast, and saturation. Deinterlacing is checked by default to keep good image quality.

Audio Editor

You can either replace/remove original audio, or set audio fade in/out effects.

Subtitle

In this tab, you can add *.srt or *.ass/*.ssa subtitle-files to the video as hard subtitles.

Merge selected movie titles into one

By ticking the Merge into one file option behind Settings button, you can merge the ticked files in list into one single file.

Merge selected movie titles into one

By ticking the Merge into one file option behind Settings button, you can merge the ticked files in list into one single file.

Split selected file into several small pieces

By clicking the button on file list, or from Edit menu, you can launch the Video Split window. Ticking Enable to enable it, and then you can split the file by file count, time length, or file size.

Select desired subtitles stream and audio track

Check the movie titles you want to rip. Click the drop-down list of Subtitles, then all the subtitles info in the Blu-ray will be shown clearly, so you can select your needed language as your subtitles freely.

What's more, EaseFab LosslessCopy also offers an option called Forced subtitles, which enables you to see subtitles only when actors are speaking a different language. For instance, if you specify English (your mother tongue) as your subtitles, and meanwhile tick off "Forced subtitles" option, then when actors are speaking English, no subtitles will show up, but when they are talking with each other in French, the English subtitles will appear accompanying with the French.

To select your desired audio track, just click the pull down menu of "Audio", and then the popup drop-down list will give you the detailed information of all audio tracks, including audio codec and language.