Hey Rebecca, Personally, we use Handbrake to rip the DVD (or chapters), then open that movie file with Quicktime and trim the clips in that. You can also add clips together in Quicktime, easy-peezy. (May have to get Quicktime Pro for this feature, but it's cheap enough). Handbrake doesn't hack every DVD; for those tougher nuts to crack, there are other applications and work-arounds out there; some I've listed links to below.
http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2013/08/08/teach-hacks-creating-clips-from-dvds/ http://www.macworld.com/article/2029204/when-handbrake-wont-rip-your-dvds.html http://www.howtogeek.com/102886/how-to-decrypt-dvds-with-hardbrake-so-you-can-rip-them/ Hope this helps. Cheers, B. Rich isthmusfilms.com On 1/28/16 12:39 PM, Oling, Rebecca wrote: > I am struggling with some technical issues that I've not gotten much help for > and I suspect that this task is one that many faculty need to accomplish, so > I appeal to you. > > I have a faculty member teaching a film course who would like to create a > file of DVD clips necessary for his course so that he need not juggle and > queue tens of discs. This is a face to face class. > > I know how to rip and entire chapter or DVD using Handbrake, etc. But those > are much larger chunks and that can be complex sometimes. I'm looking for a > simple, preferably low cost way for him to capture some MP4s of various > scenes and string them together (iMovie?) for his purposes. > > Currently, what is the best way you know to do this? By "Best" I mean: > cheapest, fastest and easiest! > > I'd like to advise him and I'm just not adept at it. > > Thanks, > > Rebecca Oling > Whofeelslikesheshouldknowthis > > > -- > Rebecca Oling > Coordinator of Instruction and Literature Librarian > Purchase College Library > 735 Anderson Hill Road > Purchase, NY 10577 > tel. 914-251-6417 > fax 914-251-6437 > [email protected] > Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues > relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, > preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and > related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective > working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication > between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and > distributors. VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
