How to import DVD to iMovie for editing on Mac

"Alright so I have this great home made video that I want to put on youtube, but I'd like to make a few changes. The movie was given to me on dvd and I just put the dvd into my mac. Is there anyway I can get the footage onto imovie?"

If you import DVD to iMovie, you may find that DVD files grey out. This is because iMovie natively didn't support DVD movies. It works perfectly with MOV, MP4 videos. Therefore, to import DVD to iMovie for editing, you'd better get a DVD to iMovie

Here, you can turn to Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac which can fast and best convert DVD to iMovie compatible files for free importing DVD movies to iMovie for editing. Besides, it also support converting DVD to other popular videos such as AVI, WMV, MPG, FLV, 3GP, ASF, MKV, VOB, RM, RMVB etc on Mac.

Step by step to convert DVD to iMovie

Step 1: Import DVD movies

Insert the DVD disc into your DVD drive and drag the disc icon from the desktop to the program to load the DVD files. Alternatively, you can click "File" > "Load DVD" to locate and add the DVD movies you want to convert.

Step 2: Select iMovie as output format

Click the format icon on the right of each item to open the format list and go to Apple Software and you'll see iMovie. Click it to set it as the output video format to convert your DVD files to videos with optimized settings for iMovie (iMovie '08/'09/11).

Step 3: Convert DVD to iMovie

Click "Convert" button to start converting DVD to iMovie supported video format