The information in this article will help you copy videos in DVD to flash drive easily in less than ten minutes. There is no doubt that you will find this information useful if you are tired of borrowing DVDs from friends. By following some simple suggestions you can to do a quick copy of your DVD videos directly to USB flash drive on any computer without risk.
DVD or Digital Video Disc is used widely as a disc medium for videos, movies and data storage. Making backups of DVD to USB flash drive is very useful if you are looking for a long term storage solution. If you want to rip DVDs to a hard drive, you need a program that is able to convert and then compress the videos to a format that is computer-friendly.
Many programs are available, such as the Aimersoft DVD Ripper, that you can download free to rip DVD to flash drive and many other formats such as the popular MOV, MP4 and AVI file extensions. The format used for copying files to a flash drive will depend largely on the storage capacity of the drive.
Many feature-length video files can be compressed easily to AVI or MP4 to fit on the regular 1GB flash drive. Unlike the AVI, the MP4 are smaller and more compressed files which might be more helpful for storing on the smaller size flash drives. Note that there’s still a DVD ripper for Mac available for Apple users.
Guides on how to convert DVD to flash drive easily
You will discover that the process is very simple when you are using the Aimersoft tool to transfer DVD to flash drive. So, it could be a convenient method to use when backing up movies or bringing them on the road or in cases when you cannot gain access to your DVD collection or personal computer. It will only take a few minutes for you to enjoy your TV shows and movies from anywhere once you can get access to a PC.
1Insert DVD disc and load files
Download the DVD ripping tool to your computer and then put a DVD inside the DVD-ROM. After running the software, click the Load DVD button to add files to the converter. To join all files into one, just tick Merge into One File.
2Specify an output format
In this step, you need to choose the format for the output file as well as the destination folder. Usually, flash drive will accept any kind of video format. But you need to make sure the format you choose can be played well on the devices that you used to open them.
3Launch the conversion
Once everything is okay, you can press the Start button on the DVD to flash drive converter to complete the process. The DVD movie conversion could take a few minutes or maybe thirty minutes, as it will depend on your computer’s processor speed and RAM; how quick the DVD drive read the file and the USB version. After that, you can use the files on flash drive in any that you want!
Below is the video tutorial on how to rip DVD to save on flash drive:
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