Best Mac Blu-ray Ripper Review for iOS (iPad Air, iPhone 5S/5C, iPad Mini 2, iPad 3/4, iPod 5, etc.)

Do you want to sync Blu-ray movies to iPad Air, iPad Mini 2, iPhone 5S/5C, iPad 3/4, iPad Mini, iPod 5, etc. iOS devices with iTunes on Mac? Try Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac and read the guide, it will provide an easy but effective solution.

Blu-ray disc, known as one of the newest and most featured optical disc storage media, is widely accepted by video enthusiasts for its efficiency and video quality. It is used to store high-quality audio and video as well as high-capacity data. However, like DVD, Blu-ray has to be played with an exclusive Blu-ray player. And the copyright protection prevents users to copy the digital content in the disc directly. 

Since a series of iOS devices like iPad Air, iPad Mini 2, iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, iPhone 5, iPad 4, iPad 3, iPad Mini, iPod 5, etc. are designed and marketed by Apple Inc, more and more people love them and use them to watch videos for the portability. Because iOS devices have no Blu-ray dive, Blu-ray cannot be played directly. If you want to watch your favorite Blu-ray movie on iOS devices, what should you do to achieve it? 
  
The most important thing is to get a powerful Mac Blu-ray Ripper for iOS Devices to help you to convert Blu-ray movies to iOS devices like iPad Air, iPad Mini 2, iPad 4, iPad 3, iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, iPhone 5, iPad Mini, iPod 5, etc. Support format. In this way, you can watch your Blu-ray movies at any time without carrying the physical Blu-ray disc. Most of you may consider using excellent free Handbreak which is good at ripping standard Def DVDs excluding commercial DVDs. while the latest version of the software has added SOME support for reading Blu-ray folder structures, it cannot yet decrypt the Blu-ray discs the way it can with regular DVDs for ripping your Blu-ray. So you need to find a more professional one.

(Note: Please read Best Blu-ray Ripper Review if you are running on Windows 8.)

Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac is the best tool for you. It can help you to remove Blu-ray protection and convert it to iOS devices compatible formats like MP4, MOV, etc with great quality. And you can customize videos via editing function including trim, crop, effect, add subtitle, etc and optimize the output video by adjusting parameters like bitrate, size, channels and so on. Due to fast speed and easy-to-use workflow, you will finish converting Blu-ray to iOS devices quickly in only few steps.

(Tips: If you want to keep multiple audio tracks and subtitle streams when ripping Blu-ray to MKV, MP4 and MOV, you can try to use Pavtube ByteCopy for Windows or Mac.)

Download Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac and install it on your Mac. Now there is a Back to School Promotion, and you will get 30% off for Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Windows/Mac if getting it right now.

Then follow below brief guide to make Blu-ray playable on iOS devices.

1. Insert Blu-ray on Blu-ray drive and Load Blu-ray to the software.

When you launch this Best Blu-ray Ripper for Mac software, you should make sure that you have inserted Blu-ray to your Blu-ray drive. Then click the “Load file” button to import the Blu-ray you want for iOS devices.



After loading Blu-ray successfully, the actual main title will be picked by the software and you can preview the entire movies on the preview window and take snapshot. Now go to choose the subtitle and audio you need for output for default setting for subtitles is none.

2. Choose video format for iOS devices.

Click “Format” menu to get the output video format list. A mass of formats are listed. Go to choose iOS devices directly in the list like iPhone, iPad, iPod, etc for output because they are the most compatible formats.



If you want to check and choose the codec, bitrate, channels, etc for output videos, you are free to click “Settings” button to get it done. Take note that the default settings are also made for high quality output videos if you are not good at it.

3. Convert Blu-ray to iPad Air, iPad Mini 2, iPhone 5S/5C, iPad 3/4, iPod 5, etc.

Click “Convert” button to get it started. Once completed, “Open” button will help you to get output files quickly.

Tips: It has powerful edit functions such as trim video for your needed length, crop video to get rid of annoying black edges, join multiple video clips into one, add text/image watermark and add subtitles. For example, if the original Blu-ray movie has no subtitle or the subtitles you need, you can download it from website and then add it into the output videos for full enjoyment with this software. 



Now it’s time to transfer Blu-ray to your iOS devices. Copy the generated video to iTunes and then sync to your portable devices. Go to enjoy it.

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DVD to Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 - Can Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 Play DVD (ISO/IFO image file)

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 cannot play DVD movies because of lacking DVD drive. Want to watch your favorite DVD on Galaxy Tab 3 8.0? This article will tell you how to convert DVD to MP4 Galaxy Tab 3 8.0.

Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 is an ideal Android portable device for watching movies. Thanks for its 1280*800-pixel resolution on 8 inch screen, 1.5GHz dual-core processor with 1.5GB of RAM, 16/32GB onboard storage, microSD card support, a 4,450mAh battery. If you have owned one, it is amazing for you to enjoy movies on the flight of business trip, on the railway of travel or wherever you are. 

However, when you want to watch DVD movies on Galaxy Tab 3.8.0, you may feel frustrated. Because just like the other tablets, Galaxy Tab 3.8.0 is not equipped with DVD-ROM or DVD Player, so DVD movies cannot be played directly on Galaxy Tab 3.8.0. What should you do when you want to watch your new DVD Olympus Has Fallen with Galaxy Tab 3.8.0?

The best way is to convert DVD to Galaxy Tab 3.8.0 supported formats like MP4. Pavtube DVDAid is specialized in ripping DVD including commercial DVD with protections like BD+, region code. What’s more, you do not need to worry about the ripping and converting speed. It is excellent for it and it supports CUDA acceleration technology, which will provide you 6 x faster speeds. Apart from it, it will provide the high quality output files for Galaxy Tab 3.8.0 and many other videos formats. Go to get it and freely enjoy your favorite DVD movies on Galaxy Tab 3.8.0. If you are a Mac user, please turn to Pavtube DVDAid for Mac. 

Note: If you still have a variety of Blu-ray movies waiting for transferring to Galaxy Tab 3.8.0 for playback, you’d better turn to Pavtube BDMagic. It can rip and convert both DVD and blu-ray disc.

How to convert DVD(ISO/IFO) to Galaxy Tab 3.8.0?
  
Firstly get your DVD in your DVD drive and then launch the software to get things ready.

1. Load DVD (ISO/IFO image file) to Pavtube DVD to Galaxy Tab 3 Ripper.

Click “Import DVD” button on the top left to load the DVD from DVD-ROM, you can also “Load ISO/IFO” or “Load from folder”. It will only take few seconds for ripping and importing DVD and you will be kept informed of timely state with a progress dialogue box.

When it has been imported successfully, you can preview the whole movie and select the subtitle and audio you want.

 

2. Choose Galaxy Tab 3.8.0 friendly format.

Click “Format” menu to find the “Samsung” option in the dropdown list, choose “Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Video (*.mp4)” for output. It is the most compatible format, which is especially made for Galaxy Tab 3.

Besides, click “Settings” button on the interface, you will be able to check and adjust the video and audio parameters like bitrate, size, channels, etc. Just do it when you need.

3. Convert DVD (ISO/IFO image file) to Galaxy Tab 3.8.0 MP4.

You can “Browse” your computer to choose a new folder for output file before conversion. When everything is ready, click “Convert” button to start converting DVD (ISO/IFO image file) to MP4 Galaxy Tab 3.8.0, then “Open” button will show you the location of output files. 

Pavtube DVDAid More Features:

• Edit the videos before conversion, such as trim, crop, add subtitles, video effect, etc.
• Convert DVD to many other mobile devices and editing software like iPad 3, iPad mini, ATV 3, Nexus 10, Galaxy Tab 3, S4, Note 2, Sony Vegas and more.
• Add srt, ass, ssa subtitles to your movies.
• Backup DVD main movie to VOB format with original quality.

Now you can watch DVD movies on Galaxy Tab 3.8.0 anytime and anywhere. 

Hope it will help you.

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Watch Star Trek Blu-ray movie on Google Nexus 10, Nexus 4, Nexus 7 & New Nexus 7

Description: A easy, quick and reliable Blu-ray Ripping workflow to let you enjoy Star Trek Blu-ray movie on Google Nexus 10, Nexus 7 & New Nexus 7 and Nexus 4 with perfect audio and video synchronization.

Question 1: 

• "I have created several ISO image files from my Blu-ray collections. Recently I bought a Google Nexus 7 (2013 version). I would like to copy these Blu-ray ISO files to my Nexus 7 so that I can watch them easily. But it seems Nexus 7 would not work with a Blu-ray ISO file; how can I do this?" 

  
Question 2: 

• "We just received my Star Trek into Darkness Blu-ray and can't wait to enjoy it. But the problems is we are heading for Europe on vacation tomorrow, and we'd rather not to take discs, Blu-ray drive and my Macbook Pro – all of these on board. I was wondering if I take my new Nexus 10, is that possible to watch Star Trek Blu-ray on Nexus 10?"

Not a long ago, Google and Asus released the second generation of Nexus 7 (2013); any of you already got it yet? Google Nexus series is so hot after releasing and it's sough-after by Google fans and Android fans for super-sharp screen, powerful processor present us excellent performance from a dual-core chip, and most of the importance - the high reputation of Google itself.

With such a portable smartphone or tablet in high resolution, watching videos could be such a big enjoyment especially when you have Blu-ray collections. Maybe not all of you know how to playback Blu-ray movies on Nexus 4/7/10, so we share our experience here:

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Blu-ray to Google Nexus Mac Workflow: How to watch Blu-ray on Nexus 4/7/10? 

Most commercial Blu-rays are heavily encrypted by film studio and the distributors, so that if you want to move Blu-ray movie to Google Nexus Tablet or Phone, the key point is to remove the disc protection. After testing several Blu-ray protection removing programs, we choose the Pavtube BDMagic for Mac for its simple interface, easy workflow and reliable video quality. Surprisingly we found it's on 30% off atm; are you still waiting?

Download a free trial version here 



Step 1. Load Blu-rays to this Mac Blu-ray to Google Nexus Ripper.

Firstly you need to get a Blu-ray drive to make Mac recognize your Blu-ray discs; the built-in drive in Mac is only able to play DVDs.

After that, let's launch Blu-ray Ripper for Mac, click the top left icon to import disc.

It will detect and show all the Blu-rays that connected to Mac, click the disc name to import them directly. And no worries if you only have Blu-ray ISO files, Pavtube will recognize the ISO files directly so that you don't need to run virtual drive to extract videos from ISO image file firstly.

Step 2. Choose video format.

For Google Nexus 4/7/10, the most compatible video format is MP4. Now click the drop-down list besides "Format", choose Android and find presets for Google Nexus. Another way to quick locate these presets is to submit "Nexus" in the search box.

Step 3. Edit video before conversion. (Optional)

Click the pencil-like icon on the top to edit videos before conversion. You can trim, crop, edit audio, add subtitles here.



After editing video, let's back to the main interface. Have you noticed the red "Settings" besides Format drop list? Click it, you can customize video size, bitrate, frame rate, sample rate(Hz) at your needs.

Step 4. Start conversion.

Click the big red "Convert" to start converting Blu-ray to MP4 for playback on Nexus 4/7/10. Wait for moments, and quick locate the converted video by clicking "Open Output folder".

Tips: Please keep the Internet connected during importing and converting, so that the whole process would be successfully managed.
  

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Best MXF Converter for Mac Review: Pavtube iMixMXF vs Tipard MXF Converter for Mac

Description: A brief review on top MXF Converter for Mac: Pavtube iMixMXF vs Tipard MXF Converter for Mac.

Main interface

Pavtube iMixMXF:



Tipad MXF Converter for Mac:



Import

Pavtube iMixMXF offers two icons on the top left for "add videos" and "add from folder"; Tipard MXF Converter for Mac integrates them into one, the same place on the top left.

We load three mxf clips in different Camera models.

Source video properties

In Pavtube iMixMXF, we can find a bubble under the three titles. Click it to check the input video/audio properties including video/audio stream, format, resolution, frame rate, bitrate and duration.



Tipard MXF Converter for Mac also has an icon to show source file properties as following. But it seems it didn't show all the info of audio stream. If you want to check/switch them, you'll need to click and select in "Audio Track".



Output Presets:

As a beginner, the output presets (or profiles) are very important to give you conversion guidance with no need to change the bitrate, framerate, size or other figures. Both Pavtube and Tipard have various presets for different devices, and NLEs. Both of them support customize outputting preset if it's needed.





Video Edition:

Let's move on to edit videos before conversion.

Click the 3D icon on top of Pavtube iMixMXF, it pops up a windows to let you trim, crop, add text/image/video watermark, remove/replace audio, add subtitles and add 3D effect. Well organized.



In Tipard MXF Converter for Mac, the Trim feature is listed separately. The rest crop, effect, edit audio and add 3D effect work the same with Pavtube iMixMXF, except the preview window is difficult to see. Besides, the Tipard MXF Converter for Mac is not able to add video watermark as the former.



Now let do a test to convert mxf to prores on both the converters.

Test: workflow of converting MXF to ProRes 422 for FCP X

We test with one MXF clip from Canon XF100 with two audio tracks.

1. We choose "Multi-track video -> Multi-track Apple Prores 422(*.mov)" in Pavtube iMixMXF and "Final Cut Pro -> Apple ProRes 422(*.mov)" in Tipard MXF Converter for Mac.





2. Choose audio tracks in Settings.

Pavtube iMixMXF offers settings for Video and Audio; all the audio streams are showed here. We check both the audio track as apparently we want to save all the sound we recorded. Also it offers a mix into one track option; we keep it unchecked.



In Tipard MXF Converter for Mac main interface, we found the options for Audio Track; but there's no way to select all of them. So we just check the first stream.



3. Start conversion.

Click the Convert icon at nearly the same time. We can see Pavtube iMixMXF (right) shows the percentage while Tipard MXF Converter for Mac (left) doesn't, the preview window changes with the process, but it's stuttering all the time.



4. Import to Final Cut Pro X.

Both the two converted completes at the same time. Now click Open output folder to locate the converted video and import them into FPCX.

We can see both the audio tracks saved separately as original in Pavtube converted video, and the timecode is kept.



While in converted video from Tipard MXF Converter for Mac, it only includes one audio track—the first one we selected. And the original timecode is removed; it's really confusing us as we thought it's basic and should be not difficult to realize.



All the steps done; thanks to Pavtube and Tipard for bringing us the great MXF converting programs despite that we have made a decision. 

FYI: during our research online, there's another MXF Converter for Mac from Pavtube but it seems to be the lite version of Pavtube iMixMXF. For users who only records one audio track, the former is recommended and it costs less than the latter Pro version.

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Apple launches iPhone 5S and 5C

Apple yesterday unveiled not one, but two new iPhones, the high-end iPhone 5S and a less expensive version known as the iPhone 5C.

Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Phil Schiller speaks about the new iPhone 5C on September 10, 2013 (Note: the "free" iPhone 4S requires a 2-year telephone contract)

Apple will begin taking orders on Friday, and on September 20 the two devices will go on sale in the United States, Australia, Britain, China, France, Germany, Japan and Singapore.

According to Apple vice president Phil Schiller, the iPhone 5S is the "gold standard in smartphones". 

Schiller said the 5S model includes a speedier chip which brings up the computing power from 32 to 64 bits. 

"It has over a billion transistors in it," he said, adding that the device will be "about twice as fast in graphics and computing power and about 40 times faster than the original iPhone." 

The 5S will also have improved battery life, with some 10 hours of talk time, or 40 hours of music listening, Schiller added. 

Apple introduced a fingerprint sensor for the iPhone 5S, as a new security measure in place of passwords. 

 
Apple's new iPhone 5S features a fingerprint sensor has an upgraded camera, and contains an A7 chip.

"You can just press the home button to unlock your phone," Schiller said. "You can use it to authenticate iTunes purchases " 

Schiller added: "We have so much of our personal data on these devices and they are with us almost everyplace we go, so we have to protect them." 

The iPhone 5S also features a new "iSight" camera that uses a special flash designed to improve colour balance. 

The iPhone 5C is aimed at more budget-conscious consumers, including users in emerging markets like China and, yes, Thailand.

 
Apple Senior VP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller shows off a green iPhone 5C. The new phone comes in a range of colours and will run on iOS 7.
 
The iPhone 5C with 16 gigabytes of memory has cut costs through the use of less expensive materials. The case is plastic rather than metal, for example. 

Apple insists however, that there have been no compromises in quality. 

"We took the same fanatical care with how the iPhone 5C feels in your hand," Ive said. 

The budget phone has a 4-inch Retina display and the same 8-megapixel rear camera and A6 processor as the iPhone 5. 

The "C" in the model name may stand for colour. Buyers now have five choices: lime green, white, yellow, red and bright blue. 

Story contains information from AFP.

Official Apple video for the iPhone 5C: