iMovie ’09 didn’t just move mostly up to par with iMovie HD, however. Apple has crammed enough new features and thoughtful improvements into this version that you might think they’d rebuilt iMovie from scratch again.

How to convert/import home video DVD in MPEG-4, DV format into iMovie?

Once you have burnt your favorite and precious video files onto DVD and unintentionally deleted the original video off the computer or from your portable hard drive, you are doomed to rip movie out of the DVD then import the converted DVD movie in MPEG-4 or DV format into iMovie. This is the only way to change anything stored in the DVD. Please free download iorgsoft DVD to iMovie converter for Mac program to get DVD into iMovie. DVD to iMovie converter for Mac can easily convert DVD movie to editing format like MPEG-4, DV or HDV, which iMovie ’09, iMovie ’08 and iMovie HD can import.

How to convert DVD (commercial and DRM protected) in MPEG-4, DV format into iMovie?

Commercial and copy right protected DVD is not allowed to put into iMovie directly because of the protection. In this case a DVD Ripper is far from enough, while a decrypter is also needed to remove protection. DVD to iMovie converter for Mac is all you need, which can rip and convert DVD to iMovie supported MP4 format, and easily decrypt DVD. Mac DVD to iMovie converter allows you to trim full length DVD movie from a chapter, a title to short one, and then merge them together into one. Subtitles option is available and output video quality is largely protected.

Please read the step by step introduction below on how to put/import/rip DVD to iMovie on Mac.

Step 1 Download and install DVD to iMovie converter for Mac
You will download a .zip from the link, which contains Intel processor.dmg and PowerPC .dmg file, please choose wisely (if you work on Intel processor, then choose Intel processor.dmg and click on it). You will find a DVD Ripper .app file in it; please drag the .app to your Application Folder, the DVD Ripper will be then correctly installed.

Step 2: Output format selection for iMovie
To convert DVD to video file that iMovie import, you can choose MPEG-4/MPEG-2/MOV/DV as the output format. On the bottom of the panel, choose MPEG-4, MPEG-2, H.264 or MOV in the drop down menu next to Profile filed.



Step 3: Video Settings on Mac
If you want to customize the output video quality, you can click the "Settings" button to open the Settings window and set video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc. You can set audio resolution, frame rate, bit rate and encoder on the "Settings" interface.



Step 4: Merge into one file
If you want to join the selected titles, chapters or clips into one file, check "merge into one file" option. The converted video will be a huge single video file.