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BlackBerry is now a very popular phone for both business people and regular cell phone users. This guide is mainly about how to rip DVD and Convert Video to BlackBerry Storm, BlackBerry Bold and other BlackBerry serials such as BlackBerry Pearl, Curve etc.

This article includes two parts:
[b]Part1. How to Rip DVD and Convert Video to BlackBerry on Windows?[/b]
[b]Part2. How to Rip DVD and Convert Video to BlackBerry on Mac?[/b]

[b]Part 1. How to Rip DVD and Convert Video to BlackBerry on Windows?[/b]
[b]1. How to rip dvd to BlackBerry?[/b]
[b]2. How to convert video to BlackBerry?[/b]
First, you should know what video format is BlackBerry Storm supports. (Other BlackBerry Serials support similar video formats)

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For most of DVD has CSS copyright protection, we need a program to rip DVD to BlackBerry Storm support video format. The tool we use is Wondershare DVD to BlackBerry Converter Suite , This program not only supports BlackBerry Storm 9530, 9500, but also BlackBerry Bold 9000, Blackberry Curve, BlackBerry Pearl and other BlackBerry serials.

Now, let's start the guide about ripping DVD and converting video to BlackBerry Storm or other BlackBerry Serials.

[b]1. How to rip dvd to BlackBerry?[/b]
[b]Step 1:[/b] Download Wondershare BlackBerry Converter Suite, and run Wondershare DVD to BlackBerry Converter.
[b]Step 2:[/b] Import the DVD Files to the software
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Run the program and click "Add". It supplies four ways to load files:
a. [b]Load from DVD Rom[/b]: All the DVD files from both DVD Rom and daemon tool will be automatically detected and recognized by the program.
b. [b]Load DVD folder (data DVD)[/b], sometimes you may store the DVD folder in your hard drive, it appears like "Video_ts" "audio_ts" folders. You can load it by clicking the "load DVD folders" button.
c. [b]Load ISO image files[/b], you can amount your ISO files in the daemon tools and then load the DVD movie from the virtual DVD drive.
d. [b]Load IFO Files[/b]: Click to import your DVD movie by loading IFO files

[b]Step 3:[/b] Edit the Video (Optional)
If you want to customize the video, this DVD to BlackBerry Storm Converter offers a powerful video editing function, including cropping video, setting the video effects, trimming movie, even customizing personal watermark.
[b]Crop Video[/b]: Many people may be annoyed for black edges around DVD movies; Don't worry any more, with this BlackBerry Converter you can easily edit the DVD movie and remove them. Just Click the Edit icon to open the Edit window. Go to the Crop tab, and you can set the output video aspect ratio crop the movie video.
[b]Set the Video Effects:[/b] You can set brightness, contrast, saturation, and adjust the volume to modulate the effect. All the progress you can see at "Preview Pane" clearly.
[b]Trim movie[/b]: If you don't need to convert the entire DVD movie, you can just capture a clip from it to convert.
[b]Customize personal watermark:[/b] Wondersahre DVD to BlackBerry Converter allows you to customize personal watermark including image watermark or test watermark.

[b]Step 4: Select output Profile[/b]
This software can convert DVD to all common formats for BlackBerry Storm such as MP4, WMV, AVI, M4A, AAC, MP3 etc. You can select one output format you want to convert as below.

[b]Step 5: Start to convert[/b]
After you edit the video (option) and select the output format, all you need to do is clicking the "Start"button. Then you can get a cup of coffee and come back later to check if the conversion is finished. It will take about 30 minutes for converting a regular two hours DVD movie. When the conversion finished, click "find target" to located the converted video on your computer, connect your BlackBerry Storm to computer, and then copy the video to your BlackBerry memory card, that’s all.

[b]2. How to convert video to BlackBerry?[/b]
[b]Step 1:[/b] Download Wondershare BlackBerry Converter Suite, and run Wondershare DVD to BlackBerry Converter.
[b]Step 2:[/b] Add Video files
Click the Add button, and the program will let you browse your computer hard drive. Select the video files you want to convert and click OK.
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[b]Step 3:[/b] Output Settings
After adding video files, you can start to set output settings for each file:
a. Select an output format from the Format drop-down list. Just select an format according to the player which you want to put your videos on.
b. Click the Settings button to set encoding settings including video resolution, frame rate, bit rate and video encoder, audio encoding settings including sample rate, channel, bit rate and audio encoder.
c. Click the Browse button to specify an output folder to save the converted files.
[b]Note 1:[/b] If you want to convert all the added files into one format with the same encoding parameters, you can just click the “Apply to All” button.
[b]Note 2:[/b] You can check the “Merger into one file” option to convert all the added video files into a single file.

[b]Step 4:[/b] Start the conversion
Click the Start button of this BlackBerry Bold Video Converter to start the conversion. And all you need to do now is to wait for the conversion to be finished. The remaining time will be shown on conversion window for your reference.
Try Wondershare BlackBerry Converter Suite

[b]Part 2: How to Rip DVD and Convert Video to BlackBerry on Mac?[/b]
[b]1: Convert DVD movie to BlackBerry for Mac[/b]
[b]2: Convert video to BlackBerry for Mac[/b]

It is easy-to-use and the converting speed is fast! After testing, all formats conversions work well, the output audio and image quality is excellent! Let's view the steps.

[b]1. Convert DVD movie to BlackBerry for Mac[/b]
[b]Step 1:[/b] Download Wondershare DVD to BlackBerry Suite for Mac, and run DVD to BlackBerry Converter for Mac.
[b]Step 2: Import video files[/b]
Click the Load DVD button, select the folder of your DVD movie, and click OK. If the movie is on your disc drive, you can just select the drive and click OK.

Or click the Load IFO button, open the folder of your DVD movie, and you will find two folders in it: AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. Open the VIDEO_TS folder, select all the IFO files, and then click OK.

After the movie is loaded, you can see all the chapters and titles in it, and then you can check the ones you want to convert. If you want to convert the whole movie, you can just keep all the titles or chapters checked.
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[b]Step 3: Output Settings[/b]
After your DVD movie is loaded, you can start to set output settings:
a. Select an output format from the Format drop-down list. Just select a format according to the mobile phone you want to put the movie onto.
b. Click the Settings button to set encoding settings including video resolution, frame rate, bit rate and video encoder, audio encoding settings including sample rate, channel, bit rate and audio encoder.
c. Name each title/chapter in the Output Filename field, and select the subtitle and audio track for the titles/chapters.
Note: You can check the “Merge into one file” option to join all the selected DVD titles/chapters into one file instead of creating a separated file for each title/chapter.
Step 4:
Click the Start button to start the conversion. And all you need to do now is to wait for the conversion to be finished. The remaining time will be shown on conversion window for your reference.
[b]2. Convert video to BlackBerry for Mac[/b]
[b]Step 1:[/b] Download Wondershare DVD to BlackBerry Suite for Mac, and run video to BlackBerry Converter for Mac.
[b]Step 2:[/b] Import video files
Click the Add button, browse your computer hard drive and add the video files you want to convert.
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[b]Step 3:[/b] Edit Movie
Wondershare Video Converter for BlackBerry allows you to edit your video files by trimming movie length, cropping video and setting movie effects.
Before the conversion, you can:
Input the name each video file in the Destination File field.
Select an output format from the Format drop-down list for different for BlackBerry videos. For BlackBerry Strom and BlackBerry Bold, we could choose the mp4, 3gp etc.
Click the Settings button to set the encoding settings including video resolution, frame rate, bit rate and video encoder, audio encoding settings including sample rate, channel, bit rate and audio encoder.

[b]Note:[/b] If you check the “Merger into one file” option, the program will join all added video files into one file instead of outputting a separated file for each video file.

[b]Step 4:[/b] Click the Start button to start the conversion. And now all you need to do is to wait for the conversion to be finished, and then transfer the converted files to your BlackBerry Storm or BlackBerry Bold.