The best way to rip from DVD for After Effects

Summary: Look for a way to rip DVDs for After Effects editing to create your own masterpiece? Follow below guide to learn how to rip DVD files into MPEG for importing to After Effects.

As an ideal video editing tool, After Effects is widely used by video professionals on Mac&Windows. Users can import AVCHD/MOV/AVI/MPG into it for editing directly. However, the occasion you are usually facing is that DVDs, as source files are difficult to be loaded to After Effects for further editing. This article discusses the details on how to edit DVD into Premiere Pro without problem.

Users will get the message while trying to transfer DVD files into After Effects-"Unsupported format or damaged file." In fact, most video editing softwares do not support DVD importing including After Effects. Then how can we make DVD compatible with After Effects?

One solution supplied by some persons on forum is to put the DVD into your computer player, open the DVD in Explorer, copy the folder Video_TS to your computer. Open the folder and rename all the files with the extension VOB to MPG. After that, After Effects will accept them.

However, that way is only for non-protected DVDs. If you have some commercial DVDs, you may need another solution. This solution tested by a lot of users is much more powerful. Get a DVD to After Effects Converter and rip DVDs into MPEG format so that After Effects can support well.

Here Brorsoft DVD Ripper for Mac is highly recommended to you which should be a great helper. You can choose to rip one title or the entire DVD to MPEG-2 favored by After Effects on Mac (Mavericks included) with user-friendly interface and powerful capacity. Plus, you can also choose other output formats for playing or editing since this professional App offers many special format columns for users to set. Turn to Brorsoft DVD Ripper Windows version, if you are a PC user. Now download the program and start DVD to After Effects conversion.

Import DVD files into After Effects for further editing

Step 1. Insert your DVD Disc into DVD drive, click "Add" button to load the DVD movies you want to rip to the program. DVD folders are also supported.



Step 2. Tap the Format box and select Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas --> MPEG-2(*.mpg) as output format. It should be compatible with After Effects natively.



Tip: Adjust video and audio parameters if you need, including the Bitrate of Video and Audio, the Codec of Video and Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc., in "Settings".

Step 3. Finally, click "Convert" button to begin the DVD to MPEG-2 ripping.

After the conversion finished, you can get the videos ripped from DVD for After Effects editing. Now, enjoy your editing time.

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