Before getting started, let’s know something about DVD and Windows Movie Maker.

General DVDs have CSS copy protection in MPEG-2 or VOB format.

Windows Movie Maker is a totally free program that comes with Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional, and Windows Vista (also called Windows DVD Maker). Windows Windows Movie Maker supports WMV, AVI and MPG video files.

To put DVD movie clips into Windows Movie Maker, you need to convert your DVD to WMV or AVI video first, and then load it into your Windows Movie Maker project. I’d prefer using Aimersoft DVD Ripper to do this. ( Free Download )

Step 1. Import DVD movie

Insert your DVD disc into your DVD-Rom, then 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”

Note: This DVD Ripper can rip copyright protected DVD movies, but you should remember it is illegal to rip DVD for any business purpose.

Step 2. Choose output format/subtitle/audio track, trim the movie

After you load the DVD files, click the “Profile” drop-down list to select “WMV 每 Windows Media Video (*.wmv)” or “AVI 每 Audio Video Interleaved (*.avi)” as the output format.

A regular DVD movie has multiple “Subtitles” and “Audio Tracks”. This DVD Ripper allows you to select any available subtitle and audio track to convert to the specific video/audio format you need.

If you just want a certain part of the DVD movie, you can click the “Trim” button to cut the DVD movie. You can drag the timeline bar to set the start and end time or simply input the “Start Time” and “End Time” to get the specific part of the movie.

Note: If you want to output higher quality video, click the “Settings” button to open the panel. There you can customize video bitrate, audio bitrate, resolution, framerate, etc.

Step 3. Start to convert

After the above steps, you just need to click “Start” and wait for the conversion to be finished. It takes about 40 minutes to convert a common two hours DVD movie.

Step 4. Import the output video into Windows Movie Maker

Run Windows Movie Maker. Tn the “Movie Task” bar, click “Add Video” to browse your computer and locate and import the converted files. Then you can start to make personal movies.

Tip: Many users may wonder how they can convert Windows Movie Maker file (*.MSWMM) to other video format or burn MSWMM to DVD. A *.MSWMM is a project file of Windows Movie Maker; it is not a video file (more like a record file). You can open *.MSWMM file in Windows Movie Maker (click “File -> Open Project Project…”) and save the movie to your computer: go to the “Tasks” bar, click “Finish Movie” and then click “Save to my computer”.

Step 1. Launch Aiseesoft DVD Ripper and add DVD Movie ( free download )

Insert the DVD into your DVD drive and click the “Load DVD” button to import the DVD Movie.

Tips: This DVD Ripper can load three DVD sources. You can load your DVD from DVD drive, DVD folder in your PC and also IFO file.

Step 2. Output Settings

This software can convert DVD to various video formats such as MPEG-4, AVI, WMV, FLV, 3GP, VOB, etc. Click the “Profile” drop down list to select a format.

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 profile field to open the Settings window and set video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc. See the figure below:

Step 3. 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 the “Start” button to start conversion.

There are a few tips and tricks you need to pay attention to while using Aiseesoft DVD Ripper to rip DVD to video/audio files.

Tips 1. Trim Movie

If you just want to convert a clip from your DVD movie, you can click the “Trim” button to pop up the “Trim” dialog. You can trim a duration of the selected title or chapter by either dragging the “Start Time” and “End Time” sliders or setting the time parameters in corresponding fields.

Tips 2. Apply Movie Effect

If you want to change the original video effect, you can click the “Effect” icon to set the video brightness, contrast, saturation, etc. You can also apply special effects to your movie.

Tips 3. Crop Video

You can remove black edges around the movie by popping up the “Crop” dialogue.

It is recommended that you choose iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac if you want to rip DVD movie to video/audio files and edit DVD movie on Mac OS X.