Part 1.Rip DVD Movie

What you need is Aimersoft DVD Ripper; you can download it for free here:
http://www.aimersoft.com/dvd-ripper.html

If you are a Mac user, you can refer to this guide - How to rip DVD movie on Mac OS X

Step 1. Install Aimersoft DVD Ripper, then insert your DVD disc into your DVD-Rom, run the software, click "Load DVD" button and add the DVD file. You can also add DVD/IFO from your hard disk by clicking "Load File".



Step2. This software can convert DVD to various video formats such as MPEG-4, AVI, WMV, FLV, 3GP, VOB, etc. Click the "Format" drop down list to select a format. If you want to copy DVD to computer in 1:1 lossless quality, please select "Lossless DVD Copy (*.vob)".



If you don't know much about mobile players, just select a format according to the name of your mobile player. For example, if you want to copy DVD to iPhone, just select "iPhone Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)", and the default setting works great. If you want to customize the output video, you can click the "Settings" button next to the format field to open the Settings window and set video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc.

Step3. Select Subtitle and Audio
Regular DVD movies usually have several subtitles such as English, French, German, etc. You can select one you prefer. You can also delete the subtitle by selecting "No Subtitle". Selecting Audio is the same.

After the above steps, click "Start" to start conversion.

Note:If you want to copy DVD to iPod, this software has a free iPod Copy Manager; it can help you transfer the converted video to iPod directly without iTunes (The iPod Manager support only iPod Video now, but it will be upgraded soon, then it will support iPod Touch, iPod Nano and iPod Classic). Just connect your iPod to computer, click "Tools" -> "iPod Copy Manager", then you will see a pop up window (See the figure below), the left pane is the video and music list on your computer, the right pane is the file list on your iPod (you also can copy files from iPod to computer, it's useful if your computer crashes or you lose iTunes library), select the files you want to sync and click the right arrow button to finish the transfer.



For PSP, this software also provides a free PSP Video Manager, click "Tool"-> PSP Video Manager, it fully support all PSP firmware version (former 3.0 or 3.0 later), and the steps to transfer files to PSP is very similar.

Part 2. Edit DVD Movie
If you want to edit your movie before converting it, Aimersoft DVD Ripper provides your with various powerful functions including:

1.Crop DVD Video
After you load the DVD file. If you want to cut the black edges of the DVD movie, you can click the "Crop" button, and then you will see a pop up windows (See the figure below). There is a frame in dashed line around the movie video; you can drag it to cut the black edges.
More over, you can click the Crop drop-down list to select a Crop model you prefer, for example: "Cut off top and bottom black edges". You can even type the number in the box to cut off black border accurately.



2.Trim DVD Title or Chapter
By default, this software will convert the whole DVD to one file; if you just want several chapters of the DVD, you can just select the chapters you want to convert (you can preview the DVD clip before converting it).
Or you can click "Trim" button to open the trim panel, drag the trim bar to set start time and end time to convert a clip from your movie. You can also type the exact time values in the Set Start Time field and Set End Time field to trim video.



3.Video Effect
You can click the "Effect" button and customize the brightness, saturation, contrast, volume, etc (See the figure below). You can even apply special effects such as "Emboss", "Negative", "Old film" and "Gray" by selecting an effect from drop-down list.



4. Other useful function
If you want to combine several DVD chapters into one file, on the main interface, there is a check box "Merge into one file", select it, then you will only get one output file instead of several files by chapters.

If you want to snatch pictures from DVD, while you previewing the DVD movie, there will be a small camera icon below the preview window, click it when you want to snacth the picture, it support output picture as JPEG or BMP format.