hermespan Posted August 4, 2012 Share Posted August 4, 2012 Greetings from computer ignoramus land. While I do have a newish SONY Vaio laptop with DVD reader and USB3, I am not familiar with computers and have more interesting things to do with my time. If I can't do the task easily, quickly and successfully I would rather hire a professional. I suspect that any high school nerd could do better. I have 30 DVDs of imovies (format I do not recall), can these be 'ripped' to a 1 Tb external hard drive at an affordable cost? My budget is THB3000 or I will take the heavy and bulky folder to Vietnam or Cambodia and hire someone there, as I expect the cost would be a third. I would do it myself if it takes 'only' 8 hours, but a computer savvy friend says that it takes 2-3 hours per DVD! My hesitation of hiring a computer expert is mostly the risk of malware. And of course whether or not he/she actually is an expert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickeyM Posted August 5, 2012 Share Posted August 5, 2012 If you have adequate disk space (at least 4GB per DVD), you do not have to rip them; simply copy the entire DVD to a folder on the disk. They then can be played directly from the VIDEO_TS folder. This would take little time compared to the ripping process (but consume much more disk space). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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