Surface Studio is an entirely new device designed for creative process. Its roomy and adjustable 28-inch PixeSense Display provides a huge canvas for all kinds of work. With 6th Gen Intel Core processors and discrete NVIDIA GeForce graphics, Surface Studio is the ultimate device for running professional-grade software like SOLIDWORKS, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Autodesk. Furthermore, it must be a wonderful experience if you watch movies on it. However, whether the Surface Studio, or Surface Pro and Surface Book doesn’t have a built-in-DVD-ROM or DVD player for you to play DVD movies directly.

If you are a DVD collector, you must always think about “Is there any way to watch DVD movies on Surface Studio?” Sure! If you rip your DVDs to Surface Studio supported format like MP4, this problem will exactly be solved. Digitalizing your DVD helps you save more time, rather than search from hunderds of DVDs, and prevent your discs from lost or damage. If you are puzzled by the way to rip DVD to Surface Studio, calm down, here we’ll show you how to rip your DVD to Surface Studio for smooth playback.

To rip DVD to Surface Studio, you need to get a DVD ripper. Facing the dozens of DVD ripping software, you must be confused about which one is the best, which one is most suitable for you… Here we recommend you an all-in-one assistant – Pavtube DVDAid which could backup DVD and convert DVD to various video and audio formats including MP4, MKV, MOV, AVI, MP3, AAC, etc to let you enjoy DVD movies ont only on Surface Studio but also on iPhone 7/8, Galaxy S8, iPad, PS4 Pro, Xbox and other devices. Surprisingly it adds H.265/HEVC as output video in order to satisfy users who ask for high video quality, by the way, this professional DVD ripper are able to convert DVD to any format with H.264/H.265 codec with 30X faster conversion speed.

Pavtube DVDAid grants you to DIY DVD movies at will, such as customizing DVD videos with built-in video editor, choosing desired subtitles/audio tracks, setting output format settings with desired parameters. Pavtube DVD supports 1:1 DVD copy, you don’t need to worry about the video backup quality. If you are a Mac user, simply get Pavtube DVDAid for Mac, which allows you to rip DVD movies to Surface Studio on MacOS Sierra and later.

Now, just download the right version according to your needs and follow the steps below.

How to Rip DVD to Surface Studio for Playback Step by Step

Step 1. Load DVD movie

Launch this assistant on your computer, click “File”> “Load from disc” to load the DVD movie you want to watch on your Surface Studio.

Find the main title (usually, the longest duration is the main title) of your DVD, then you could preview the loaded movie on the right window, what’s more, you can take some snapshots of this DVD.

Step 2: Choose Surface Studio supported video format

As we all know, MP4 must be the most popular video format. Video player installed on your Surface Studio can play MP4 very well. What you need to do is to click “Format” bar, from its drop-down list, navigate to “Common Videos” and select “H.264 High Profile Video(*.mp4).”.

Step 3. Adjust settings for Surface Studio (Optional)

If you need, you can customize DVD video settings in this session, click “Settings” on the main interface and it will pop up “Profile Settings” window. You can adjust video Codec, Size, Bitrate, Frame Rate, audio Channels…here.

Tip: Remember the file size and video quality is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss.

Step 4. Edit video

As we all know, the?aspect ratio?on the?Surface Studio?is 3:2. To avoid black bars at the top and bottom of the picture when you play DVD movies on Surface Studio, just click pen icon on the main interface, then you will see video editing window, click “Crop” and switch to “Advanced Mode”, here are several aspect ratio selections for you, including 16:10, 16:9, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2, and 2:1, and choose 3:2 to avoid black bars.

What’ more, you also can flip, split video, drag to trim video, add video effects, add watermark, and more features are waiting for your exploration.

Step 5: Start conversion process

When you have finished all above settings, you can simply click the “Convert” button on the main interface, wait for a second, after conversion process, click “Open” and pop up the folder with converted file.

Now, it is time for you to enjoy DVD movies on Surface Studio with such a big screen. Afterwards, you can digitalize all DVD discs no matter you bought from abroad, online shop, or just rented from store, and bulit your movies folder to make movies management eaiser.