DVD-Cloner 9.40

All-in-one professional DVD/Blu-ray copy/ripper set.
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DVD-Cloner for Mac's simplicity, all-in-one professional DVD/Blu-ray copy/ripper set, and high-quality results make it the best DVD copy software in our review.
DVD-Cloner for Mac can make exact 1:1 copies of your movies as well as compress commercial DVDs to fit onto smaller-capacity blank discs. It also has the unique ability to merge the contents of multiple DVDs onto a single Blu-ray disc.

DVD-Cloner for Mac review: Perfect 1:1 Copy Tools
 
One of the most important tools in any DVD copier is the ability to circumvent the anti-piracy encryptions that prevent the copying of almost all commercial discs. This program has an automatic decrypter that unlocks the content of the DVD so you can copy it onto a new disc.
It takes DVD-Cloner for Mac about 45 minutes to make an exact copy of a DVD movie. If you make a compressed copy for a smaller-capacity blank DVD, the process takes around 40 minutes. These are the average copy times for the programs in our review of the best DVD copying software.

DVD-Cloner for Mac review: Rip Blu-ray/DVD to MKV

Matroska multimedia container format 'MKV' is widely used in the media conversion industry, and its most important feature is that it supports a large number of stream formats, so DVD-Cloner for Mac adopted this format. You can keep all the video, audio, subtitle and other information in the DVD. So we recommend the MKV format when you rip DVDs.
DVD-Cloner for Mac provides a variety of options when rip DVD/Blu-ray to MKV. You can choose to convert the DVD to MKV with lossless mode, but the output MKV file size is relatively large. If you choose H.264/H.265 codec for compressing MKV, the output file size can be much smaller to save space. Meanwhile, DVD-Cloner for Mac offers a variety of bitrate options, including whether to keep high-definition audio tracks.

DVD-Cloner for Mac review: Speed

The copying speed of DVD-Cloner for Mac is extremely fast. The CD-ROM direct IO technology, which can bypass the operating system and directly use the underlying API to control the reading and burning of the DVD/Blu-ray optical drive, which can maximize the speed of the DVD/Blu-ray optical drive. 

DVD-Cloner for Mac review: Output

To make an exact copy of a commercial DVD, you must use a blank dual-layered disc (DVD-9). Only these larger-capacity discs have enough storage space to make an exact copy. If you use the smaller-capacity blank DVD-5s, the software compresses the DVD video to file. This results in some quality loss. However, we only noted minimal pixelation and compression artifacts in our test copy. DVD-Cloner for Mac created the highest-quality copies of all the software in our lineup.
DVD-Cloner for Mac review: Customization
This software does much more than make rote copies of DVDs. Expert mode gives you the ability to customize your new disc with only the content you want. The movie-only option strips away everything except the feature presentation of a DVD. This is a great tool that allows you to copy a commercial movie onto a DVD-5 with little to no compression.
You can also split a commercial DVD into two separate DVD-5s – one with the movie and the other with everything else, including bonus videos, trailers and commentary tracks. This means you can copy an entire DVD with no quality loss without needing the more expensive dual-layered blank discs.
One of DVD-Cloner for Mac's most unique features is the ability to copy the movies on two different DVDs onto one blank disc. If you have a Blu-ray burner, you can burn movies from multiple DVDs onto a single Blu-ray disc. This is a great tool for condensing your physical DVD library or making anthology discs.

Should you buy DVD-Cloner for Mac?
If you're going to buy a DVD/Blu-ray copy/ripper program, rather than going down the free route, then this is definitely the best one. It's easy to use, fast, highly compatible and uses the features of modern Macs. It manages the balancing act of being technically up to date (except for the missing MKV/H.265 support) while also being easy to use, and we could find nothing to complain about.

Pros
You can start copying a DVD very fast.
It has every customization option we look for in this category.
Compressed copies have minimal quality loss.

Cons
Saving ISO (disc image files) to your hard drive is more complex than necessary.
The time it takes to burn a new disc is longer than average, according to our tests.
There are no options to convert content into a stand-alone video file

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