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>> Support many kinds of audio and video formats
With the development of science and technology, more electronic products have been emerging in the market and various kinds of formats of audios and videos are made out to support them. You don't need to worry about which kind of formats your portable device supports, as 4Videosoft DVD Ripper Platinum can rip dvd to AVI, MP4, MPEG, MOV, 3GP, HD video(HD AVI, HD TS, HD MOV, HD WMV…), MP3 etc. The converted file can be put on most of your compatible devices,like ipod, iPhone, PSP, Apple TV, Zune, BlackBerry. Thus not only at home, you can also enjoy more DVD at school, at work or on the way or anywhere you like.

>> Strong editing function
Want more change about your DVD? It helps modify and change dvd file by its powerful editing functions, including effecting, trimming and cropping.

>   Effecting: Here you can do something to change the picture of the converted dvd file, like Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Deinterlacing. It's easy to adjust them by dragging the sliding button from the range minus 100 to plus 100. The above two preview window will show the contrast effect between Original Preview and Output Preview. It's obvious and clear to see the converted effect and users can keep on adjusting the Effect until the new converted picture is satisfactory.

> Cropping: Usually, when most of us watch dvd, we might complain the blank margin occupies too much space and affect the whole picture. By Cropping icon the spare blank margin can be cut off and the size of the image can be adjusted as you like, from different angles of Left, Top, Right and Button. There is a drop-down button named Zoom Mode to arrange the proportion of the preview window, and they are Full Screen, Keep Original, 16:9, 6:3.

> Trimming: You can choose any episode of the dvd file or a very short period of the episode to convert by Trimming icon. Choose the Start Time and End Time manually, and click OK button. Or you can rewrite the time length by Select Length by hand and then click OK button to finish it.
By the way, all can be cancelled and reset by Reset button.

>> Take Snapshot: We cannot help enjoying pleasant things. During converting, you happen to find a beautiful picture in DVD and want to save it and display in other portable devices. This DVD ripping software provides such a considerate function. Below the preview window is a camera icon, which takes quick shot of the picture. Left to it is a file icon, which uses to save the snapshots automatically. Open the snapshot file, find the picture you like and then you can remove it to display as a sreensaver or save in your cell phone.

>> Merge into one file: It supports merging function. How to do it? Select the chapters you like in the checkbox on the interface, choose the file format and the destination, and then click Merge into one file in the checkbox and finally click the Start button, and the chapters will be converted as a whole file. But it may take a little long time to finish the whole conversion.

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It spends a few seconds to download the software and installing is easy by installation wizard step by step.
There are two ways for you to uninstall 4Videosoft DVD Ripper Platinum : one is the Windows Control Panel and the other the program uninstallation option.

What's its interface?
Open the software, its interface pops up at first. There is a Getting Started for users to follow and rip DVD, including 4 steps.
Step 1. Click "Load DVD" to open DVD
Step 2. Click "Effect", "Crop", "Trim" to edit
Step 3. Select output format from the "Profile" list
Step 4. Click "Start" to convert DVD

The left of the interface lie the buttons of Load DVD, Effect, Crop, Trim and Preference while the top right of it are the icons of File, Edit, Clip, Option and Help, having the same function as the left ones'. The four buttons of Clear all, Rename, Chapter/Title and Properties lie the below. By Clear all you can get to the beginning state and have to load DVD file again if you want to rip file. Destination file can be renamed directly by Rename button. By clicking Chapter/Title can all information of chapters display fully on the screen while users can get a good master of video information and audio information, like frame rate, sample rate, aspect ratio, channel and encoder.

By the way, the skin is in default mode and there is only one English language set.

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User-friendly interface and powerful functions make it popular on the market. There is a guidance to help users how to use it and rip dvd at the beginning, regardless of a green hand or a computer expert. Useful hint, obvious menu and simple operation are the favorable factors to choose it. It's a better choice to pick an easy-to-use software with fast dowload speed and convenient installation, isn't it?

Do you know how many chapters in your dvd file? How big the file is? How long it will finish playing? Where the converted file is put? 4Videosoft DVD Ripper Platinum can solve these problems by its detailed information display. On the center of the screen displays all information, including Source File, Original Length, Trimmed Length, Estimated Size and Destination File. With them users can easily get to know the file and how to do next clearly and easily.

It has lively and obvious icons. Like Trimming incon, it uses a sign like a pair of scissors to present the function of cutting; a frame sign to present the Cropping, a dowm arrow to show the loading function , a few stars to feature its persionalised effect function and two gears to Preferences button. Preference is a very useful option. You can reset many parameters with the help of it, like Output Destination, Snapshot Shot Folder, Image Type, Action and CPU Usage and many more. All of them helps you better improve the converted images and the quality.

Excellent output quality and images. Users can adjust the volume of sound during  converting. As I have tried it, I think the converted audios and videos quality wouldn't let you down. What's more, it supports preview.

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Overall Review: It's easy to use and useful if you want to put more DVD on compatible and portable devices, though there are some limitations about the trial version. As a dvd ripping software, it not only supports various kinds of popular formats, putting your dvd on ipod, psp, iphone and many more, but also provides strong editing function to perfect your audios and videos. Want more completely powerful functons? Get a full version.

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