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  • How to convert Blu-ray disc to MOV for playback and edit on Mac?

A Blu-ray player enables movie lovers to enjoy Blu-ray movies over their HDTV. However, when you are impressed by the high definition Blu-ray movie, have you ever thought of making the protected movie your video collection, just as other common videos, to be played freely on Mac? Now with Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac and an external BD drive, you can make full use of Blu-ray movie by converting it to common videos, like MOV, for play and edit. The ripper supports TrueHD and HDD codec, and this ensures your accessibility to the audio track of your native language. The following guide tells you how to rip Blu-ray disc to MOV formats on Mac step by step.

 

Step 1. Load Blu-ray disc.
To rip Blu-ray disc on Mac, an external BD drive is essential. Hook up the BD drive with your Mac and launch Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac. Click on “DVD Folder” to import Blu-Ray movies, browse to the drive and click “Choose”. You do not have to open the any of the folders. When the M2TS files are imported to file list, check the main movie and leave other files unchecked. The main movie is the largest M2TS file. Check it in preview window if you are not certain. Protected Blu-ray folders can be loaded to the ripper in the same way. Right below the file list you can find Audio track option in which dubbings of different languages are listed for your choice.

 

Blu-ray to MOV conversion

(Tip: you can click “Edit” button to perform edit functions such as crop, trim, flip, effect, watermark and audio replace.)

 

Step 2: Set Output format.

Click on “Format” bar when you’d like to specify an output format. MOV can be found in common video, HD Video, iPod, iPhone, and FCP/ Sony Vegas groups. There are customized MOV for specific device and AVC encoded MOV for edit. Choose an appropriate MOV out of the groups for play back or edit. Click on “Settings” if you want to further customize video and audio parameters and click on “OK” to confirm after complete settings. In Export to box you could specify destination for the ripped file.

 

Step 3: Start ripping.
Click on Convert” button to start Blu-Ray to H.264 MP4 conversion. The ripper will remove the protections and generate desired MOV file. The conversion progress is faster than most other software.After conversion you can play and edit freely.

 

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