Want to Copy and Backup all your favorite DVD Movies to Hard Drive? This Article will show you how to copy protected DVD movies to computer. Before we start, we need a Mac DVD copy software ,which can copy DVD movies to Hard Drives or to a new blank DVD disc, this software also supports to copy all DVDs including copyright protected DVDs.

Mac DVD Copy provides the best way to copy DVD on Mac OS X. With this powerful DVD Copy for Mac software you can easily backup DVD and burn DVD on Mac OS X with high DVD Copy quality. It allows you to copy DVD movie in 1:1 ratio like copy D5 to D5 and copy D9 to D9 easily. You can also copy protected DVD movies as it can remove the protections like CSS, RC and RCE.

And then is the guide :How to copy DVD Movies to Hard Drives to DVD on Mac ?

Step1: Select DVD Source
After you install and lunch DVD Copy for Mac, put the DVD disc into your DVD drive. Click the “Select Source” drop-down list to browse your computer and located your source DVD movie (either in a folder or from your DVD-ROM).



Step2: Select DVD Copy Method
DVD Copy for Mac allows you to backup DVD to a folder on your hard drive or directly copy DVD to a new DVD disc. In the “Select DVD Copy Method” field, select the “Output DVD Folder” option, and specify a directory to save the copied DVD movie.



Step3: Start Copying DVD
After all things done, click the Start button to start copying your DVD movie or burning it to a new DVD disc. That's all.

As a Mac user, how to Copy DVD to a New disc? How to burn DVD files to a DVD?or How to burn iso file to DVD? If you are a Mac user, you’ll find you are very lucky, because, every Mac user comes with a Mac DVD Copy, so technically speaking, there shouldn’t be any problem. And by using the compatible DVD copy software, your work can be done so easily. Now, let us have a look the classic powerful software Disk utility, it’s powerful because it contains the function of conversion, repairing, erasing, and formatting, burning, almost everything to do with a disc. And here we’ll show you how to copy DVDs with Disk Utility.

First, open Disk utility in your dock bar. You can accomplish a bunch of maintenance tasks with Disk Utility when your computer is started from the Mac OS X 10.4 Install DVD. From the Utilities menu, choose Disk Utility to open it. open the program and click the "Burn" button .



Second, load the video to Utility.Choose the file you’d like to burn, the file format can be ISO disk image, or the DVD format Files. Both can be export from iDVD or download from Internet.



Third, insert the blank DVD+/-R,RW.
Then wait for the software to process.



After maybe few hours (depends on how large is your DVD size), your DVD is ready, and this one should be able to be play in an ordinary DVD player.
However, there is only one disadvantage about the Utility disk; which makes the application somehow disappointed. It can’t copy a physical DVD to a new disc. As we know, most of our DVDs are stored in the discs, and our most demand for copy or Backup DVD Movies is copy the content from one DVD disc to another blank disc. So for this demand, we'd use some other application like DVD copy for Mac to help us finish the work. Here is a detail guide of “How to Copy DVD Movies to a new Disc on Mac” if you are interested.



With Mac OS X Tiger 10.4 now in hand, you may want to consider making a personal backup copy. This is an excellent way to ensure you are protected should your original install DVD become damaged or lost. This simple tutorial will show you how to make a reliable DVD copy from Tiger's Mac OS X InstallDVD.

NOTE: This tutorial is for personal use only. Only the legal owner of Mac OS X Tiger should make a backup.

Now that the legal mumbo-jumbo is out of the way, lets begin. Duplicating CD/DVD’s is usually very easy, especially if you are lucky enough to have two drive bays and Toast Titanium. However, Mac OS X Tiger poses a slight difficulty since it is a bootable volume. The following steps will help you create a perfect working backup copy of Tiger.

Making a DVD Image

Step 1. Insert the retail Mac OS X Install DVD into your drive.

Step 2. Launch Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities).

Step 3. In Disk Utility, you will notice a white pane on the left hand side. In the pane, select the Mac OS X Install DVD by clicking on it once.

Step 4. Click New Image on the Disk Utility toolbar.

Step 5. A dialog box will appear. Give the new image a name. I used 'Mac OS X Install DVD'. Select the destination where you wish to save it. Leave Image Format at Compressed (default) and Encryption at None (default).

Step 6. Click Save to begin creating the image.

Step 7. Once your image has been created DO NOT mount it. Leave the image alone and proceed to the next section.

Burning the Image

Step 1. Launch Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities).

Step 2. Click Burn on the Disk Utility toolbar (upper left).

Step 3. Navigate to where you saved the DVD image created in the previous section. Click on the image file, then click the Burn button. Do not drag and drop the image file into Disk Utility during this step.

Step4. Insert a DVD when prompted and proceed to Burn it. (use good quality media)

Using these exact steps I was successfully able to create a personal backup copy of Mac OS X Tiger. I hope this tutorial helps. Enjoy the newfound features in Tiger!

More information about "How to make a non-commercial DVD copy of MAC OS X Tiger ?"

This step-by-step guide is dedicating to demonstrate how to backup DVD movie (copyright protected included) to computer and copy DVD to a new DVD disc with no protections on Mac OS X (leopard included)

The tool you need is Mac DVD Copy.
You should free download this DVD Copy for Mac firstly.

Step 1: Select DVD Source



In the 'Select Source' field, click and select 'Select source DVD folder'. Then browse your computer hard disc and select your DVD movie (either in a folder or from your DVD ROM).

Step 2: Select DVD Copy Method



This cool DVD Copy for Mac allows you to copy DVD to a folder on your hard disc or directly burn DVD to a new DVD disc.
In the 'Select DVD Copy Method' field, click to select a method to output the selected DVD movie:
If you want to output your DVD movie to a folder on your hard disc, you can select the 'Output DVD Folder' option, and specify a directory to save the copied DVD movie.

If you want to directly burn your DVD movie to a new DVD disc , you can just select the DVD ROM.

Step 3: Program Settings



Set Buffer Directory: Specify a directory on your hard disc as the buffer directory to store the temporary files generated during the conversion. We recommend that you select a folder on a hard disc that has relatively big free space.

Select Language: Select an interface language for the program. The currently available languages are English and Simplified Chinese.

Step 4: Start Copying DVD

Click the Start button to start copying your DVD movie and/or burning it to a new DVD disc.




Note: If you are copying a DVD disc from your DVD ROM to a new DVD disc,DVD Copy for Mac will ask you to insert a blank DVD disc when the program gets ready to burn. Then you can just take the original DVD disc out and insert a blank DVD disc.