How to Rip Videos from Sony Camcorder DVD Effortlessly

Sony's camcorders and cameras lets you easily shoot and preserve life's precious moments. And Sony DVD camcorders lets you directly record videos to DVD  (miniDVD, not full-sized DVD) for playing on and standard DVD players. However, if you want to play your raw Sony camcorder DVD elsewhere like on your iPhone, iPad, iPod, etc., you'll be disappointed since DVD is not supported by most portable devices, video sharing sites or video editing programs.

To copy Sony camcorder DVD video to computer or transfer Sony camcorder DVD to portable devices, a DVD ripper program is needed. Get one and insert your finalized DVD disc into the DVD drive, select and output format and start to rip Sony camcorder DVD to your desired format. This article will show you how to rip videos from Sony camcorder DVD and tell you some knowledge about Sony SD and HD DVD camcorders. First, download the right version of the DVD ripper software.

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How to rip Sony camcorder DVD to videos

1Load DVD

Insert your finalized DVD disc into your computer's DVD drive and run Aimersoft DVD Ripper. Then click "Load DVD" to add the DVD movies to the program.

2Select output profiles

Click "Profile" and choose the output video/audio format you like.As you can see, you can either select MP4, MOV, MKV, FLV, WMV, AVI, MP3, WMA, OGG, etc. as the output format or select the icon of a device/software to get videos with optimized settings for like iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, HTC, Samsung, Xbox 360, etc.

3Start ripping

When all the settings are OK, click the Start button to rip videos out of Sony camcorder DVD. When the conversion completes, click "Find Target" to located the ripped videos and enjoy them anywhere you like.

Below is the video tutorial on how to rip Sony camcorder DVD to videos:

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Knowledge about Sony SD and HD DVD Camcorders

1. Sony SD DVD Camcorder

SD is short for Standard Definition. Most Sony SD camcorders record DVD in MPEG2 format, which can be easily played on your home DVD player. Below are some models of Sony SD DVD camcorders that are well supported by Aimersoft DVD Ripper.

2. Sony HD DVD Camcorders

For Sony HD DVD camcorders, they record videos in AVCHD1 format. This disc can be played with a Blu-ray player. Aimersoft DVD Ripper doesn't support ripping AVCHD DVD discs. However, if you Sony HD DVD camcorders to record SD videos (Select SD HQ, SD SP or SD LP mode to switch to record SD videos) and burn to DVD, you can still rip the DVDs with Aimersoft program. Supported Sony HD DVD camcorders include: