Mac: Creating movie clips from DVDs

Bump.

don't know about creating clips, but the stills/snapshots can be done with screen captures...

Cannot help regarding Mac - using Windows though, a great free program to cut clips from movies is DVD Shrink (http://www.dvdshrink.org/) It has a Re-author function which allows you to select any part of the movie and copy it to a hard drive folder. Hope this helps.........

What kind of DVD? A commercial DVD has a Digital Rights Management "feature" called CSS that is illegal to circumvent in the United States according to the vague and overreaching DMCA.

Because of that, there are not a lot of easy and cheap solutions (there may be an easy but expensive solution) and you may need to use a collection of software. I will assume that your use is for legal purposes (fair use, backups) to make this following advice legal (according to the DMCA it's even illegal to tell someone how to circumvent copyright).

http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6010.shtml

http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/%7Eshmhav/SVCD_on_a_Macintosh.html

Incidentally, I have used DVDShrink (as suggested by Rajar) to easily remove DRM from my DVDs and back them up. It worked over 95% of the time for me, with the occasional DVD causing a "Data error - cyclic redundancy check" that required some sector sleuthing and sometimes other software.

There was also some software called "DeCSS" or something like that that worked for some of the cases I needed it.

Both programs were for PCs, and both were allegedly illegal to download in the US. But you probably know as well as I do that the DMCA has some overreaching interpretations that won't actually hold up.

Thanks. I shall look at these when I get home tonight.