I wasn't finding too many threads on this doing a search, but maybe I'm just using the wrong terms.
What I want to do is very straightforward: Rip about 950 DVDs in their entirety to hard drive(s)--not re-encode using Handbrake or similar, but rip the whole discs including menus, previews, etc. That's a lot of DVDs, so I'm interested in whatever method requires the least manual work.
I'm an anime reviewer preparing to move to Japan for a while, and it's realistically a lot easier to rip my full anime collection to two or three hand-carryable 2TB hard drives than ship the physical DVDs, but I do want the discs exactly as-is, rather than re-encoded, since they're as much for future reference as for actually watching.
I'm seeing Mac DVDRipper Pro recommended here as the easiest tool, and it's certainly cheap enough, but I'm wondering if it's going to have the fastest workflow in terms of the time it takes to stick a disc in, get the rip started, and spit it back out. I notice that MacTheRipper also has a new paid-only version out, but it doesn't seem quite as smooth.
Also, if anybody knows of a good way to automatically add even a little metadata to the collection, that would be nice.
(Aside: Egad, 950 DVDs is a lot. Even at only 1 minute to take the disc off the shelf, take it out of the case, insert it, start the rip, and put it back in the case, that's almost 16 HOURS of manual labor. Not even counting actual rip time, which at least I don't have to sit there through. I'm going to buy a tray-load external drive, too--figure it'll be a little faster and less stress than using the slot-load internal in my iMac.)
What I want to do is very straightforward: Rip about 950 DVDs in their entirety to hard drive(s)--not re-encode using Handbrake or similar, but rip the whole discs including menus, previews, etc. That's a lot of DVDs, so I'm interested in whatever method requires the least manual work.
I'm an anime reviewer preparing to move to Japan for a while, and it's realistically a lot easier to rip my full anime collection to two or three hand-carryable 2TB hard drives than ship the physical DVDs, but I do want the discs exactly as-is, rather than re-encoded, since they're as much for future reference as for actually watching.
I'm seeing Mac DVDRipper Pro recommended here as the easiest tool, and it's certainly cheap enough, but I'm wondering if it's going to have the fastest workflow in terms of the time it takes to stick a disc in, get the rip started, and spit it back out. I notice that MacTheRipper also has a new paid-only version out, but it doesn't seem quite as smooth.
Also, if anybody knows of a good way to automatically add even a little metadata to the collection, that would be nice.
(Aside: Egad, 950 DVDs is a lot. Even at only 1 minute to take the disc off the shelf, take it out of the case, insert it, start the rip, and put it back in the case, that's almost 16 HOURS of manual labor. Not even counting actual rip time, which at least I don't have to sit there through. I'm going to buy a tray-load external drive, too--figure it'll be a little faster and less stress than using the slot-load internal in my iMac.)