All,
First I have to apologize for taking so long to see the light and move from PC to Mac, what can I say, I have separation anxiety. I am treating myself to a new iMac loaded next month when they come out as I am tired of debugging, reformatting, looking for drivers and DLL's.
My situation is: I have a collection of 2000+ DVD's and am tired of carrying the two duffle bags with me every time I move, not to mention the time it takes to find the DVD's I want from the many pouches.
My questions are:
1. What is my best option (software, cataloging, labeling, etc..) for ripping my DVD's into good quality files on my iMac?
2. Is MP4 the best/most efficient format I should rip them in to see on my iMac or TV? I just bought an Apple TV little box last month.
3. How will the quality of my burned DVD's be as compared to torrents? Should I even bother to rip them? Will downloading torrents be faster and bring me a better quality movie in the end?
4. Given that the new iMac does not have a DVD drive, I was planning on using my external DVD drive, is there a more efficient way of doing this?, can I use 3or4 DVD drives in parallel??
5. What is the best software to organize, classify, reference, search and retrieve my movies? Is there an application that I can get for the apple store that is better??
6, if you were in my shoes, how would you set it up? I don't want to start doing it to find out I should have done it some other way after having gone through the first 1000 rips.
Thanks in advance
A very excited new iMac user
First I have to apologize for taking so long to see the light and move from PC to Mac, what can I say, I have separation anxiety. I am treating myself to a new iMac loaded next month when they come out as I am tired of debugging, reformatting, looking for drivers and DLL's.
My situation is: I have a collection of 2000+ DVD's and am tired of carrying the two duffle bags with me every time I move, not to mention the time it takes to find the DVD's I want from the many pouches.
My questions are:
1. What is my best option (software, cataloging, labeling, etc..) for ripping my DVD's into good quality files on my iMac?
2. Is MP4 the best/most efficient format I should rip them in to see on my iMac or TV? I just bought an Apple TV little box last month.
3. How will the quality of my burned DVD's be as compared to torrents? Should I even bother to rip them? Will downloading torrents be faster and bring me a better quality movie in the end?
4. Given that the new iMac does not have a DVD drive, I was planning on using my external DVD drive, is there a more efficient way of doing this?, can I use 3or4 DVD drives in parallel??
5. What is the best software to organize, classify, reference, search and retrieve my movies? Is there an application that I can get for the apple store that is better??
6, if you were in my shoes, how would you set it up? I don't want to start doing it to find out I should have done it some other way after having gone through the first 1000 rips.
Thanks in advance
A very excited new iMac user