Wondershare DVD to iPod Converter for Mac 1. Convert DVD to iPod Touch/Nano/Classic 2. Include video trimming/cropping/effects 3. Support output formats: MP4/M4V/AAC/MP3 4. Merge/join multiple titles/chapters to one file.

Want to rip DVD to iPod on Mac OS X? Want to enjoy your favorite DVD movies on iPod touch, iPod classic, iPod nano and other iPod video players with the help of your Mac machine? To put DVD movies on iPod, you need a DVD to iPod ripper program to help you rip DVD to iPod MP4 video files or iPod MP3/M4A audio files, and then drag them to your iPod player with the help of iTunes Library. The majority of DVD to iPod conversion tools are for Windows, so if your OS is based on Mac, you will need such a DVD to iPod ripper for Mac users. Wondershare DVD to iPod converter for Mac is a powerful yet easy to use Mac DVD to iPod converter specially designed for Mac OS users, which is also rich in DVD movie editing options. To convert DVD to iPod on your Mac OS, you can download Wondershare DVD to iPod Converter for Mac first, and follow the steps below to put a DVD movie on your iPod.

Below are the steps to rip DVD movies to iPod touch, iPod nano, iPod classic with Wondershare DVD to iPod Converter for Mac:

Step 1: Import DVD Movies

Click the Load DVD button, select the folder of your DVD movie, and click OK. If the DVD movie is on your disc drive, you can just select the drive and click OK.

Or click the Load IFO button, open the folder of your DVD movie, and you will find two folders in it: AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. Open the VIDEO_TS folder, select all the IFO files, and then click OK.

After the DVD movie is imported, you can see all the DVD chapters/titles in it, and then you can check the DVD chapters/titles you want to rip to your iPod. If you want to rip the whole movie, you can just keep all the DVD titles/chapters checked.

Step 2: Output Settings

Before ripping DVD movies to iPod video files, there are a few settings you should make:

1. Select the iPod Video format from the Format drop-down list(Apart from ripping DVD to iPod video, it can even rip DVD to iPod audio).
2. Click the Settings button to make encoding settings including video resolution, frame rate, bit rate and video encoder, audio encoding settings including sample rate, channel, bit rate and audio encoder.
3. Name each DVD title/chapter in the Output Filename field, and select the DVD subtitle and audio track for the DVD titles/chapters.

Note: You can check the "Merger into one file" option to join all the selected DVD titles/chapters into one file instead of creating a separated file for each title/chapter.

Step 3: Start Conversion

Click the Start button to start ripping DVD movies to iPod. Now you can just go talk a walk and wait till the DVD to iPod conversion is completed. After that, you can just transfer the created files to your iPod with iTunes.

Tip 1: Trim Movie

If you just want to rip a clip from your DVD movie, you can click the Trim icon to capture the clip. In the Trim window, you can trim the length of the current title/chapter by either dragging the Start Time and End Time sliders or setting the time parameters in each corresponding field.

Tip 2: Crop Video

If you DVD video has black sides, you can use this Crop function to remove them. Click the Crop icon to open the Crop window, and set the crop area by dragging the crop frame or setting the four crop parameters (Top, Bottom, Left and Right).

Tip 3: Movie Effect

If you are not content with the original effect, you can click the Effect icon to set the video brightness, contrast, saturation, and audio volume. You can also choose to apply a special effect to your movie video from effects including Gray, Emboss and Negative.