Share: Easy way to convert video and remove drm media on Mac and Windows

There are tips of the easy way to convert video and remove drm video on Mac and windows. Mostly, it’s for audiophile and film-goers. The introduced DRM removers here are Apple iMovie HD and best video converter platinum.

Before part one:

What’s DRM?

DRM(digital rights management) is a restriction on the use or copying of files, imposed by the copyright owner. For example, songs and videos purchased from the iTunes Music Store have DRM protection and can only be used according to the license agreement.(From google define)

Why to remove DRM?

When you buy music or movie from iTunes or internet store, the files are always DRM files (special on iTunes). It means you can only play them on your computer, with your account. You can’t share it, even move it to new laptop is not allowed, not to mention that burn to DVD or edit it anymore. That’s quite limits our sensual pleasure. So, there is the easy way to convert video and remove drm media on Mac and windows. Of course, you can choose remove DRM or not, that’s decided by yourself.

Part one: Get best video converter software for windows

There is lots of video converter software choose, you can convert online at Zamzar, or with free videora … but here I’d preferring to introduce a professional and easy-to-use video converter I use - Wondershare Video Converter Platinum. It appears as all in one video converter, full version costs $35, trial version converts video free, on August 2008.

This best video format converter that can convert your video files including FLV video to various formats to meet different format requirements and for playback on most popular players including iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Zune, PSP, Pocket PC, Creative Zen, and Archos and so on. It is the best video converter that can convert WMV to AVI, VOB to AVI, and this YouTube Video Converter even convert video to Youtube or convert Youtube to video with excellent quality.

Here is the official website of this video converter platinum: http://www.dvd-ripper-copy.com/video-converter-platinum.html

The detailed guide to convert video with Wondershare Video Converter Platinum: http://www.dvd-ripper-copy.com/guide/video-converter-guide.html

Part two: Free remove iTunes DRM music on Mac

1. However, in order to remove DRM protection, you will need iMovie - iMovie is a separate application, the current iteration of iMovie released with the iLife‘08 software bundle is iMovie 7.1. You can download iMovie at Apple. Once downloaded and installed, start iMovie and ‘Create a New Project’ titled ‘DRM-free’, then save the project to your Desktop.

2. In the iMovie window, select the ‘Media’ tab located between ‘Themes’ and ‘Editing’. You will notice that the top right portion of the interface now offers a media browser. Select the ‘Audio’ tab and locate the playlist which contains purchased music, or search by artist / title.

Select the DRM-laden song and drag the file from the media browser into the iMovie timeline where it says ‘Drag audio here to build your project.’

3. In order to export the song, iMovie requires that a visual image be associated with the audio track. Simply drag a blank image (or any other image as you like) to the track above the previously imported audio file. Once iMovie has processed the image, select the ‘Share…’ sub menu item from found inside ‘Share’ in iMovie’s menu bar.

4. Select ‘Expert Settings’ in the ‘Compress movie for:’ drop-down menu, for selecting ‘Expert Settings’ mode will provide the options to export the file as an audio file. Then click the ‘Share’ button.

5. In the ‘Save as’ dialogue, select ‘Sound to AIFF’, in the Export drop-down menu, choose an appropriate directory for iMovie to export to, input title and ‘Save’. iMovie will compress and export the movie project as an audio file in 15-40 seconds, it depends on your machine configuration.

Locate the exported AIFF audio file and drag to your iTunes Library, then right-click on the file and select ‘Convert Selection to AAC’. Once completed, ‘Get Info’ on the new file, add album art, done.