Two Methods: Backup Blu-ray and DVD on Your Computer

As we all know, Blu-ray/DVD discs are very expensive (especially Blu-ray disc), mainly because of its strong support for capacity storage and high-definition video. Therefore, if our Blu-ray/DVD discs cannot be played properly caused by the child's carelessness, wet weather, playback times or over-long storage time, etc., it would be very regrettable thing. 
 

So, in order to avoid such regret, the most sensible way is to do a disc backup. The top Blu-ray/DVD Backup tool has become increasingly common due to mature technology and low price, it will become one of the most common backup method. In this case, we need a third-party software to avoid damage to expensive and fragile Blu-ray/DVD disc. 
  
Which software can help backup Blu-ray/DVD discs? 
     
Is there any reliable tool which can help the owners of Blu-ray/DVD discs conquer these technologies, and cope with all encryption means in the future? Here, we suggested you Pavtube BDMagic, a powerful Blu-ray Disc handling tool integrating disc backing up(ripping) and transcoding functions. For backing up, it can make a 1:1 copy of BD movies to your computer with all subtitles, audio streams and chapter information included, as well as directly copy BD main movie without extras. Moreover, it can re-encode Blu-ray movies to HD and SD video in over 50 file formats including H.264/MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, MKV, MP4, AVI, MPEG, WMV, FLV, SWF, F4V, MOV, 3GP, etc. 
  
Note: If you are Mac users, you can Download the Pavtube BDMagic for Mac.
  
Method 1: “Full Disc Copy” maintaining original structure without loss
  
1.Install and launch the Blu-ray/DVD Copying software. Click “Load file(s)” to load original Blu-ray/DVD discs. You need a Blu-ray Disc drive (either external or internal) to read Blu-ray Disc. 



2.Click the quick button "Copy the entire disc" to start copying Blu-ray with original structure. 
 

    
As soon as the copying task finished, you can click "Open" button to locate the Blu-ray directory. The decrypted Blu-ray folder contains all information and contents in the original disc. Among them, the BDMV folder is the most important one with audio and video files in it. Open BDMV -> STREAM folder and you will find all the .m2ts movie clips.  
   
Method 2: Directly Copy only Blu-ray/DVD Main Movie and Leave Out Extras
    
Step 1. Load Blu-ray/DVD movies.
  
Insert Blu-ray or DVD Disc with the Blu-ray drive. Launch the Pavtube BDMagic and click "Load Disc" button to import Blu-ray/DVD movies.



Step 2. Choose Directly Copy Blu-ray/DVD discs.
  
Click "Format" bar, choose "Copy" > "Directly Copy" from the Format menu and then specify a folder to save the M2TS/VOB files from Blu-ray/DVD discs.    
Step 3. Start Blu-ray/DVD backup on Computer. 
  
Hit "Convert" button to start copying M2TS/VOB streams from your Blu-ray/DVD Discs to hard drive. When the copying work is done, you are able to click "Open" button to get the output .m2ts or .vob files without any other extra structures or contents. 
    
You're done! Now you may got known how to backup, copy Blu-ray or DVD discs on computer when you wanna keep your Blu-ray/DVD discs from scratching, or manage movies in a more convenient way. 

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Recover Deleted Video &Photo from iPhone 4S

Deleted some important photo& videos on iPhone 4s camera by mistake, don’t worry, you still have chance to recover them back.

I deleted photos from my iPhone 4S by mistake, they are very important! Is there any way to get it back? Your help will be fully appreciated. Thanks!

 

In fact, It’s impossible to recover deleted photos/video directly from iPhone 4s, but if you have backup your iPhone 4s to computer before deleting photo, you can easily retrieve the deleted photos from backup with the help of iFonebox, you have no need to restore the whole backup, it’s a waste of time and may cause data loss again.




iFonebox is professional iPhone 4S photo recovery tool which can help you recover iPhone 4S photo easily. Only a few steps, you can find out the deleted photo on your iPhone 4s and extract them from backup files with no data loss or personal info leaking. You are allowed to preview the contents of the photos&video and selectively recover them from iPhone 4s backup. Only a few steps you can quickly get back the deleted photos.

Download the free trial version of iFonebox (Windows & Mac) by clicking below icons and have a try. Both of them support iPhone 5S/5/5C/4S/4/3GS, iPad air/ mini/ mini2, iPad3/2/1 etc.

Tutorials: How to retrieve deleted Photo from iPhone 4s camera roll

Here we take ifonebox for Mac as an example, if you are windows computer user, please taken similar steps below.

Step 1: Choose a recovery mode

Running this iPhone 4s photo recovery on your computer, Choose “Recover from iTunes Backup”, the software will detect backup files automatically.



Step 2: Select an iTunes backup file to scan

All your iTunes backup files of your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch which has ever synced with iTunes on this computer will be automatically found and listed here. Select the right one for your iPhone 4s and click “Start Scan” button.



Step 3: Preview and recover photos from iPhone 4s backup

After scanning finished, you can see a categories on the top side of the windows include camera roll, photo stream, contacts, messages, etc. Click the “camera roll” or “Photo stream” icon, all deleted and existing photos and videos displayed here, preview the photos one by one and selectively mark those you want, then click “Recover” button to save them on your computer as readable file.



That’s all! So easy~

You successful get back the deleted photos. Don’t hesitate to download it to have a try. With iFonebox, you can also directly scan you iPhone/iPad to recover deleted Notes, Messages, Contacts, Call history even of you have no backup.

Import/Edit MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, MPG in Final Cut Pro 6/7 on Mac OS X

Let's find out how to import and edit MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, MPG video files in Final Cut Pro 6/7 on Mac (Mavericks and Yosemite included), here we can easily fix it.

As a professional non-linear editing software application, Final Cut Pro is the first choice of professional editors. Whether you're working solo or collaborating with a team, Final Cut Pro gives you more creative options and technical control.

Though Final Cut Pro 6/7 is able to import and edit any QuickTime compatible video format, camera-native formats, even Apple ProRes, there is still limitation in importing MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, MPG to FCP 6/7, let alone to edit those kind of video formats. This following will introduce a step by step guide on how to successfully import video to Final Cut Pro 6/7 no matter what format the video is.

To start, make sure an application for video converting installed on your Mac. If you are looking for ease of use, and don’t mind spending $52, check out Pavtube’s iMedia Converter for Mac. Specially designed for Mac users, mainly video hobbyists and independent filmmakers, the Mac Video to FCP ProRes Transcoder is able to convert MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, MPG to FCP natively Apple ProRes Codec for editing.

Tricks for Importing/Editing MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, MPG files in Final Cut Pro 6/7

1. Load video files to the program

Go to the folder where you have saved the MKV, AVI, VOB, Tivo, MPG videos, and then directly drag and drop the video files to the program dock. The files will be imported to the application automatically.

Note: If you have several video clips on your Mac and you want to combine them and export a continuous video that Final Cut Pro supports, just check "Merge into one file" at the bottom of the program.



2. Click on “Format” bar and follow “Final Cut Pro” template to set a FCP 6/7 friendly format.
For HD 1080p video files, you are advised to Follow “Final Cut Pro” template and “Apple ProRes 422 (*.mov)” format.




Tip: If you prefer smaller file size, choose “Apple ProRes 422 (LT) (*.mov)” instead. The “Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy) (*.mov)” format offers file size at SD levels and is recommended for 480i/p and 576i/p shootings. The “Apple ProRes 4444(*.mov)” creates videos in lossless quality at huge file size, and is not recommended for home video making.

3. Start Video to FCP conversion on Mac OS X

Click "Convert" button, and this smart Video to Prores Converter will do the rest for you! When the conversion is done, you can import the output prores .mov files to FCP 6/7 without any trouble. Congratulations! You have successfully taken the first step to make your own masterpiece. Have a try now!

Read more:

How to Download DVD Movies Into iTunes
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Save phone number in your iPhone 5 when its screen is died

iFonebox is a useful iPhone 5 Contacts extractor for iPhone 4 users to recover their lost Contacts, even when the screen is black or died.

Q: “Something wrong with my iPhone 5’s screen.The screen become black, but it is strange that I could receive calls from my friends. So the problem may be the iPhone is ok, just the screen died. What I need is to preview my Contacts in the iPhone. Can any one help me?”

A: You could use iFonebox, the professional iPhone 5 contacts extractor to rescue your phone number.

The most fragile part of iPhone 5 may be its screen. Many iPhone 5 users post in the forum and said that their screen are easily broken or become black. In this case, if you also want to recover your Contacts in your iPhone 5 like above customer, please read on and you will find the best solution.

First, free download the trail version of iFonebox on your computer, we will take the Windows version as an example, If you are a Mac user, just download the Mac version, the recovery step is similar. Here we also give 30% off for 2014 Summer Holiday!

Now, let’s start it.

How to Rescue and recover Contacts in iPhone 5
 
Step 1: Choose Recovery Mode

Install iFonebox on your computer and run it, connect your iPhone 5 with your computer, then you will see the interface as follows, just choose “Recover from ios device” as the recovery mode.

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Step 2: Start scanning iPhone 5

Then the professional iPhone 5 contacts extractor will automatically begin to scan and analysis your iPhone 5, the scanning time will depends on the database in your iPhone, which means more data in your iPhone 5 will takes more time to finish the scanning. Just wait patiently.



Step 3: Preview and Recover Contacts in iPhone 5

When the scanning is finished, all the data in your iPhone 5 will be displayed in the interface of iFonebox. Click “Contacts” and you could preview all the phone number in your iPhone 5, including these you once deleted. Click the “Recover” button on the top right of the interface to restore them on your computer.

How to Play and Watch DVD Movies on Windows 8.1/8 Tablet

This article introduces a review of the best DVD ripper for Windows 8.1/8 Tablet and tells you how to rip and convert DVD to Surface RT, Surface Pro, Surface 2, Surface Pro 2, Surface Pro 3 ...

Windows 8.1 is here just a year after Windows 8. This update—free to existing Windows 8 users- doesn't fundamentally alter any of the objectives or design goals of Windows 8. Microsoft still wants to have one operating system that can span tablet and PC- and, if one looks further into the future, perhaps even the smartphone, too.

Windows 8/8.1 Tablet, such as Surace RT, Surace Pro, Surface 2, Surace Pro 2, Surface Pro 3, etc. are the market hot spots. They are all perfect for watching videos on the go. However, Windows device don't have the DVD drive for playing DVD movies. That means, if you want to watch DVD movies on your Windows 8/8.1 Tablet anytime and anywhere you like, you will need to rip DVD to its compatible video formats like MP4 at first.

Software Requirement:

Pavtube DVDAid or DVDAid for Mac. Let's have a closer look at the basic steps.

1. Run Pavtube DVD Converter, and click “Load file” button to browse and import DVD movies that you want to convert for viewing on Windows 8/8.1 Tablet (Surface, Asus VivoTab, Windows Phone).



2. Highlight the movie title you want to rip, and then you can click the dropdown menu after “Subtitles” and “Audio” respectively to select your wanted subs and audio track to be preserved in the resulted MP4 files.

3. Choose "Microsoft Surface Windows RT/Pro H.264 (*.mp4) Video" as target format from “Windows” pull down format presets. Or you can select other Windows 8/8.1 Tablets profile. Just search the device by enter "surface" in the search box and find the profile.



4. Click "Settings" button to configure file quality for Windows 8/8.1 Tablet. After entering “Profile Settings” panel, you are allowed to adjust video and audio parameters such as bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and more.



Note: If you prefer a much better video quality and don’t mind the output file size, you can rise the video bit rate higher. Generally speaking, the higher video bit rate will result in the larger output file size, and vice versa.

5. Click "Convert" button to start DVD to Windows 8/8.1 Tablet Conversion.

As soon as the conversion is done, you can click “Open” button to get the generated MP4 files and transfer them to your Windows 8/8.1 Tablet for playback with ease.

You can follow the easy steps to transfer converted videos to Windows 8.1/8 Tablet:

1.Copy files onto a USB flash drive or memory card on your other computer.
2. Insert the USB flash drive or memory card into Windows 8/8.1 Tablet.
3.Tap or click the notification that appears in the upper-right corner of the screen.
4.Tap or click Open folder to view files.
5.Select the files or folders you want to add to surface, tap or click Home, and then tap or click Copy to.
6.Select a location. For example, choose Documents if the flash drive or memory card contains documents

Learn more:

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