Importing a dvd that I made into photos

Question

Importing a dvd that I made into photos

I am using a MacBook Pro with High Sierra 10.13.3

I converted our 8mm home movies and VHS tapes into DVDs several years ago. Now I have iCloud storage in Photos and I also have a Dropbox account. I would like to load these DVDs into these storage files to be able to view them on my iPad or my iPhone as well as share them with my family using my Dropbox account. I have been able to do this with some recent videos that I have taken with my iPhone without any problem. However, I am not having any luck with loading the older DVDs into the Photos app or iMovie from my MacBook Pro desktop. I believe that the newer videos that I have taken with my iPhone and also loaded into my iMovie app creates an MP4 file which seems to be able to be viewed from my iPad and/or my iPhone.

Is there a simple way to load my old DVDs into these storage mediums which will allow them to be conveniently viewed for my iPad and/or iPhone?

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), iPhoto 9.6.1 (910.42

Posted on Apr 3, 2018 11:19 AM

Reply

Answer 1

Top-ranking reply

Rich839

Level 8

48,156 points

Apr 3, 2018 3:57 PM in response to stephenfromatchison

Hi, stephen,

You would need to rip the DVD and convert the VOB files to Mp4 in order to work with them like you want.

Click on the DVD icon on your desktop and open the VIDEO_TS folder that you see. Option-Drag (copy, not move) to your desktop the files in the VIDEO_TS folder that have the VOB extension. Then you can use the free download, Handbrake, to convert the VOB files to Mp4 files. Drag the converted files into an iMovie project and share out as a file to your desktop. There may be some file size limitations as to what you can store in the cloud or Drop Box. Or, you can skip iMovie and work with the converted Mp4 files individually like any other vid file.

-- Rich

Reply