![]() Frozen, for instance, took about 45 minutes to copy. (That's not to say it's fast, either it takes a while to copy and decrypt up to 50GB of data at Blu-ray speeds. The process of creating a backup doesn't take overly long (though it's dependent on drive speed), because the drive is just copying data to your Mac, and decrypting. So make sure you have a lot of free drive space, make sure you remove these backup copies when done with the conversion step, and if you make backups (you should!), make sure you exclude the folder that holds your raw Blu-rays from your backups. ( Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol was 44GB the much visually simpler and shorter So I Married An Axe Murderer was "only" 21GB.) The extras disc for The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, as seen at right, takes up 15GB of drive space in backup form-and the extras only run 37 minutes! A long complex movie with a dual-layer Blu-ray can easily approach 50GB. (They also include everything on the disc, i.e. Warning: Because you're merely copying the contents of the Blu-ray without changing its compression or format, the resulting files can be very large. ![]() Make sure you check the "Decrypt video files" box, and then click the ugly folder icon to set the path to where you'd like the file to be saved. If you're interested in creating your own digital copies of your Blu-ray discs, read on to see how I do it.īefore we begin, the obligatory disclaimer: Kirk focused on playback I'm ignoring playback, and expanding on the ripping tutorial.) ( Kirk McElhearn discussed Blu-ray viewing/ripping for Macworld last year. Which means I need to make my own digital versions.įor DVDs, this isn't too troublesome (and well documented), but I'm only buying Blu-ray discs now, and that makes things a bit tougher. More and more, in fact, this is the norm. Other studios, though, want to force me outside the Apple ecosystem, and into the hell that is Ultraviolet. The recent Frozen Blu-ray release, for example, was perfect: In the box was a Blu-ray, a DVD, and an easy-to-use redemption code for the iTunes digital version. But I also enjoy the benefits that come from having an electronic version of the movie. As I recently wrote about, I'm weird in that I prefer to buy my movies on physical media, versus electronic only.
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