How to Use the Ripper Feature
Tipard DVD Ripper is an all-in-one DVD ripping software that helps you convert DVDs into enhanced video quality optimized for today's high-resolution displays, including TVs, smartphones, and tablets. It also allows you to remux DVDs to MKV or MPG while preserving the original content and structure for professional editing. With its practical and user-friendly editing features, you can further refine your DVD movies with ease. In short, it is one of the most practical DVD ripping solutions available.
Step 1 Load DVD disc/Folder/ISO files
Insert your DVD into your disc drive and connect it to your computer. Click the Load DVD button to directly load the DVD. You can also click the dropdown button to select a disc drive if you have multiple drives. The dropdown list can also let you input ISO image, DVD folder, or AVCHD.
Tipard DVD Ripper can analyze each title and chapter in a DVD. You can select Main Movie or Full Title List:
- Main Movie: The longest video in your DVD, which is the main movie. However, some DVDs may have multiple main movies. In that case, you'll need to select Full Title List.
- Full Title List: Display all titles in your DVDs, including the main movie, blooper scenes, and other extras.
- The Show movies based on chapters feature: It lets you view each chapter in each title. If you need to view or extract each chapter individually, you can toggle it on. Otherwise, you don't need to use it.
Then, you'll enter the main workspace. Let's get to know each features here:
- Locate the right side of the panel. Click the dropdown button to select Rip to Video/Audio, Rip DVD to DVD Folder, or Rip to DVD ISO File option.
- Ensure that Hardware Acceleration is turned on. Otherwise, your CPU will be fully utilized during the ripping process, which is really harmful.
- You can use the editing features on each title to edit the title. They can enhance video, trim video, edit metadata, rotate video, add filters, and do many other editing tasks.
- The Out Format dropdown list on the bottom left side let you choose a desired output format for all the selected titles (videos).
- You can also select an output format for each title on its respective bar.
- The Save to option lets you choose an output location for the video, ISO image, or DVD folder.
Step 2 Choose Output Format
Click the Output Format dropdown button or the format selection button on each title bar. Then, you can select your desired output format, like MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, etc. You can also select a format preset, like HD 1080p, HD 1080p Auto Correct, and 4K Video.
When ripping a DVD, remuxing and transcoding are different methods. Remuxing can preserves the original content and DVD structure. Although it's lossless, the DVD video parameters are really outdated today. It's mainly for editing use. Transcoding will change the DVD video parameters (including codec, resolution, frame rate, bitrate, etc.). Modern codecs, like H.264, HEVC, and AV1, can highly reduce the large DVD file size while keeping the best video quality. Also, Tipard DVD Ripper can highly upscale the DVD video definition and enhance the color via AI upscaling.
- Lossless Options: You can click the Lossless category to select MKV or MPG output format. MKV is more recommended. The two options can remux your DVDs with original content and structure, including videos, audio files, subtitles, and more.
- Other Options: Other options will transcode your DVD videos to digital video format. Tipard DVD Ripper offers many types of output formats. YOu can also select the Device tab. It lets you conveert DVDs for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, PS5, Xbox, and more.
Step 3 Customize Output Format
You can also customize the selected output format. Click the Custom Profile button (with a gear icon).
In this panel, you can adjust the video codec, resolution, bitrate, frame rate, and more. Tipard DVD Ripper provides compatible codecs for specific formats. For example, MP4 format can support H.264. H.265/HEVC, MPEG-4, and AV1 codecs.
Step 4 Rip DVD to videos
You can click the Save to button to change an output path. Then, click the Rip All button to rip your DVDs to digital foramt, ISO image, or DVD folder.
Other Minor Features You Can Use:
The Ripper panel has many practical features, please check them:
1. Manage Subtitles: You can click the Subtitle dropdown button to access many subtitle features:
- Keep subtitle tracks: It lets you choose what subtitle tracks to keep in the output video.
- Embed subtitle: You can select a subtitle track, and then it will be embedded (becomes certain pixels of the video) into the video after ripping.
- Export subtitle file: It can let you extract subtitles as certain files after ripping. They are not kept in the container or embedded into the video, but just saved as separate files.
- Subtitle Disabled: Remove all subtitles from the DVD.
2. Change Title (Video) Name: You can change the name of each video in the list by clicking the title and entering a new name.
3. Merge DVD titles or chapters: You can toggle on Merge into one file next to the Rip All button to combine your selected titles or chapters into a single video.
How to Edit DVD before Ripping
With this all-in-one DVD Ripping software, you're granted to edit the video with the videos and get the most satisfying video effect. By clicking the magic stick button, the steps are followed:
Note: For editing the DVD, you should make sure the output format is not MPG Lossless, but others.
Crop video
It's annoying when there are the black edges on your video. To get rid of them, you can use the "Crop" option. Please choose 16:9, 4:3, 1:1, or 9:16 as the Aspect Ratio according to your needs. You are free to drag the frame border or enter a fixed size in the Crop Area box. Also, you can adjust the position and Zoom Mode of the video frame.
Rotate video
If your video has a wrong viewing angle, you can rotate the video direction to make it more enjoyable, like Rotate at 90 degrees clockwise, Rotate at 90 degrees counterclockwise, Horizontal Flip, or Vertical Flip.
Add effects & filters
In the "Effect & Filter" editing window, you're free to adjust the Contrast, Saturation, Brightness and Hue for a perfect video effect. There are various free filters for you to choose like Whirlpool, Hong Kong Movie, Orange Dots, Purple, Plain, Coordinates, Warm, etc. What's more, you can click the horn button and drag the slider bar to adjust the volume.
You can pay attention to the Deinterlacing option. It can help you to remove the interlacing artifacts from your video.
Add watermark
The "Watermark" option helps you to add a text or logo to your DVD file. Just check the "Text" or "Image" option to add a text/image watermark to the video. When adding a watermark, you can adjust the text font and color, text/image size, and position. What's more, you can rotate the watermark by 360 degrees or adjust the opacity/transparency to make it obvious or unobvious.
Adjust audio
In the "Audio" section, you can select the audio track from local computer. It also lets you turn down or turn up the volume by moving the volume slider left or right. If the audio doesn't match up with the image, you can adjust the delay between the picture and sound.
Add subtitles
The "Subtitle" option of Tipard DVD Ripper enables you to add subtitles to your DVD. You can click the Add Subtitle(s) button to add subtitle from local. If there is no subtitle available on your computer, you can click Search Online button to download a proper subtitle from the website. You can also adjust the subtitle font, size, color, outline, position, opacity and delay.
How to Make Preference Settings
If you want to adjust more settings, you can click the gear button to open "Preference" window, you're free to adjust subtitle, audio language, ripping output folder, GIF folder, toolbox and task schedule settings.
General
In General tab of Preference, you can make settings of Subtitle Language, Audio Language, GPU Acceleration, Check for update and more. Tipard DVD Ripper adopts NVIDIA® CUDA™ and AMD® technologies, which makes the DVD ripping process at 30X faster speed than others.
Ripper
In Ripper settings, you can adjust the Output Folder as well as Snapshot Folder. Moreover, you can change the subtitles, remove the source files or not, etc.
Toolbox
In the tab of Toolbox, you can change the output folder of compressed video or new created GIF.
Task Schedule
Task Schedule tab enables you to choose to open output folder, shut down computer, sleep computer, exit program or do nothing when a preset task is completed.
How to Use Toolbox
Toolbox has other features that you cannot miss from Tipard Video Converter Ultimate, where you can compress the large video file size, create animated GIF images, edit the metadata information, make 3D videos, and enhance video quality.
How to edit Metadata
Step 1 Add media file
Click Media Metadata Editor in the Toolbox window. Click the big plus button to add the media file that you want to edit.
Step 2 Edit ID3 tag
Then you can edit the video or audio formation automatically. For audio files, it Auto load the MP3 tags with the information like artist, album, composer, year, track, comments, etc. You can also edit the ID3 tags as you like.
How to compress video
Step 1 Add large video file
Select Video Compressor in Toolbox window, and you can click the big plus button to add one video file.
Step 2 Compress the video file
Adjust the file size by moving the slider bar or enter a desired file size. You can also change the output format and resolution. Then click the Preview button to preview the compressed video file for 10 seconds. After that, click Compress button to start compressing the video file.
How to create GIF
Step 1 Add the video file
Select GIF Maker in Toolbox and click the big plus button to import one video file for creating the GIF animation.
Step 2 Create GIF from video
Here you can use the Edit button or Cut feature to cut down the long video. After that, you should set the output size, frame rate and loop animation. Then click Generate GIF button to start creating GIF from the video file. You can only preview the GIF image for for a maximum of 10 seconds
How to add 3D effects
Step 1 Add video file
Please choose 3D Maker from the Toolbox window. Add the video file that you want to convert to 3D.
Step 2 Adjust 3D effects
There will be multiple options to help you add stunning 3D effects to your video. For example, you can change the Anaglyph to Red/Cyan anaglyph, full color. You can also split the scene to 2 parts side by side and even adjust the video depth as you need.
After the adjustment, please preview the video before you export it. If you find the changed video satisfying, click on the Generate 3D button to start the conversion.
How to enhance video
Step 1 Add video file
Open the Video Enhancer tool if you need to improve your video quality. Then add a video file to the enhancer.
Step 2 Enhance video quality
You can use this enhancer to upscale resolution, optimize brightness & contrast, remove video noise, and reduce video shaking. Just check the box in front of the option you want to apply. Then click Enhance to enhance the video.
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