Best Alternative to RipIt to Rip DVD Movies on macOS Sierra

RipIt is a macOS DVD Ripper developed by The Little App Factory, it enables users to create a playable copy of the contents of a Video DVDon their hard disk. It can successfully process discs that are encoded with theContent Scramble System, as well as advanced protection mechanisms like Sony’s ArccOS Protection and Macrovision’s RipGuard, X-project, SecureBurn’s ProtectDisc, Anaho, Fortium Technologies’ Fortium and others. For Mac users, sometimes, you may find that this simple to use Mac DVD Ripper can’t satisfy some of your advanced needs listed below when using to rip DVD on Mac.
– Does not have any option to remove copy region codes
– No option to select certain features or chapters for extraction
– Can’t load DVD Folder and IFO or ISO image file
– Compress DVD to a file only compatible with iPod, iPhone, iPad and Apple TV
– No video profile settings function to output better quality video and audio files
– Lack the basic video editing function to trim/crop/merge/deinterlace video

Best Alternative to RipIt

To eliminate all those head-scratching issues, it would be much ideal for you to find a RipIT alternaive. Have no idea which is the best RipIt alternative to rip DVD movies on Mac, no need to worry, to save your precious time and energy, we have picked 4 of best Mac DVD Ripper software – Pavtube DVDAid for Mac, Pavtube BDMagic for Mac, Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac, Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac for you. The 4 programs are powerful enough to bypass not only all copy protection including RCE, key2Audio, UOP, CSS, Macrovision,Disney X-project DRM(99 titles DVD encryption included), FluxDVD, Protect, ARccOS, AACS, BD+, ROM Mark, BD-Live and also remove DVD region code from region 1 to region 8. You can comprehensively load DVD disc, Video_TS folder and IFO/ISO file into the program to make a 1:1 ful disc copy with original DVD structure or main movie copy without extras, you can also convert DVD to various popular digital media formats or device preset profile formats which can not only used on Apple devices but also Android devices, Windows devices, game consoles, TVs, etc. The built-in profile parameter settings function can assist you to output better quality video/audio by flexibly adjusting the video codec, bit rate, frame rate, resolution and audio codec, bit rate, sample rate and channels. The full editing package also does you a great favor to get your desired video with specific video length, file size, special rending effect, wantermark, favorite audio backaround, etc. The better understanding the main features of those 4 program, the following part will compare them with detailed comparison parameters.

Software	Pavtube DVDAid for Mac	Pavtube BDMagic for Mac	Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac	Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac
Price	$35	$39 Now: $34.3	$42	$65
Remove DVD Copy Protection	√	√	√	√
Remove DVD Region code	√	√	√	√
Input File Formats
DVD Disc/Video_TS folder/IFO/ISO Image	√	√	√	√
Blu-ray Disc/BDMV Folder/ISO Image	–	√	√	√
SD/HD/2K/4K Video	–	–	–	√
DVD Copy Mode
1:1 Full Disc Copy	√	√	√	√
Main Movie Copy	√	√	√	√
Output File Formats
SD/HD/2K/4K	√	√	√	√
iTunes M4V	√	√	√	√
QuickTime MOV	√	√	√	√
MPEG-4	√	√	√	√
H.264/H.264 HD	√	√	√	√
H.265 MP4/MKV	√	√	√	√
Lossless Multi-track MKV	–	–	√	–
Multi-track MP4/MOV	–	–	√	–
Prores	√	√	√	√
iPhone/iPad/Apple TV Preset Profile Formats	√	√	√	√
iMovie/FCE/FCP/Resovle/Avid Preset Editing Codec	√	√	√	√
Other Devices or Programs Preset Profile Formats	√	√	√	√
Subtitle Functions
Select Desired Subtitles from Original Movie Source	√	√	√	√
Enable Forced Subtitles	√	√	√	√
Add External SRT/ASS/SSA Subtitles	√	√	√	√
Adjust Output Profile Parameters
Video Codec/Resolution/Bitrate/Framerate	√	√	√	√
Audio Codec/Bitrate/Samplerate/Channels	√	√	√	√
Video Editing Functions
Flip & Rotate	√	√	√	√
Trim/Merge/Crop/Split	√	√	√	√
Watermark	√	√	√	√
Apply Effect	√	√	√	√
Change Picture Color Effect	√	√	√	√
Replace/Remove Audio in Video	√	√	√	√
Mac OS Compatibility	macOS Sierra 10.12	macOS Sierra 10.12	macOS Sierra 10.12	macOS Sierra 10.12

The following article will take Pavtube DVDAid for Mac to show you how to rip DVD on Mac.

Step 1: Load DVD disc into the program.

Insert your DVD into the built-in or external connected DVD drive on your Mac computer, start the program, on the main interface, click “File” > “Load from disc” to load DVD disc into the program, you can also add Video_TS folder or IFO/Image file into the program.

Tips: the program will automatically select the main DVD title (the one with longest video length and largest video file size) for you.

Step 2：Choose output file format.

Copy entire DVD disc

If you want to preserve DVD’s original file structure without changing anything, just use the copy entire disc feature on the top tool bar on the mainly interface.

Main movie copy of DVD

By choosing Copy > Directly Copy, you are able to copy the selected movie file in its original format without any extras. When directly copy a DVD movie, you will get .vob as output.

Output DVD to popular file formats or device preset profile formats

Step 4: Edit DVD movies.

Select a movie title or chapter on the main interface to active the “Editor” function, then click the Edit icon on the tool bar of main interface to open the Editor Window, you can play and preview the original DVD movies and output effects. Also you can flip DVD, trim, crop, add effect, reset, and adjust volume.

Step 5: Start DVD ripping process.

Clicking the Convert button on the right-bottom main interface, you can go to Conversion window to start conversion. After the conversion, you can click Open output folder to popup output directory with the converted files.

Then you will have no problem to play DVD movies with QuickTime, transfer DVD movies to iPhone, iPad or stream DVD to Apple TV via Plex for viewing on your large screen TV.