Welcome back Rick. There are two apps that will do what you're looking for.
You can use Mac the Ripper to grab the video off the disk. IIRC, it will give you all the TS files you need. http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14414 The other is MPEG Streamclip http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15466 This is absolutely my favorite, it's sort of like GraphicConverter for video. Reads just about everything and converts to just about anything. Both are good to have, although you may not need both. You can use Mac the Ripper to get the TS files and Streamclip to convert them to .dv files which you can drop into iMovie and play with. Happy editing. b3 wrote: > okay, so we just got back from our wedding/honeymoon and had a > fantastic time. > A family member taped the ceremony with their camcorder, and lent it > to us for the honeymoon in the mountains. > > I would like to be able to get the video from this into iMovie to > edit and play around with. > > Unfortunately, the family member doesn't have any cables that connect > it to a computer so that makes it a bit more difficult. > The camera records directly to those small DVD discs, so there should > be someway to incorporate the videos. > > Is there a program (free/shareware/other) that will convert DVD video > chapters to .mov files or something that iMovie can use? > > The videos aren't copy protected or anything, so i'm not looking for > something to crack that. > > I know that I can rip the video to my hard drive into TS-video > folders or some such, but then how do i get that into iMovie? > > Thanks, > > rick > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be August 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
