Mac assistance needed please

[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

My husband has just become a Mac owner, and therefore needs to find new ways of handling his vidding files.

On his PC, he just ripped raw vob files with SmartRipper and used them directly in Vegas. He also ran AnyDVD to region crack the DVD drive, as we have both region 4 and region 1 DVDs.

Question 1 - is there a region crack for Macs?

Question 2 - for anyone here that uses Final Cut or Final Cut Express... what do you use to rip and encode your source?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

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[littleheaven70.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tips! I'd hate to risk mucking up his drive - the machine cost a fortune. Most of our DVD's are region 4 so we've set his drive to that. I guess I can always rip and convert the region 1's for him on my region-cracked PC :o)