Three more brief questions, and Thanks for Help

[Aaron Gerow]

I'm afraid I'm not the expert on all these issues, so I can only answer 
from my limited knowledge.

> The first is: Are the "Mac the Ripper" software and the SnapZ Pro 
> mutually exclusive, or complementary, or just two different tools?

I can't say since I haven't used "Mac the Ripper."
>
> The second is: Do these both work on Region 2 DVD's?

With Snapz, this all just depends on what your internal DVD drive can 
do. It is well-known in the Mac community that Apple has made it hard 
to turn their DVD drives region-free. It can be done with some of them 
(depending on the maker of the drive), but at your own risk. Otherwise, 
Mac requires that you switch region settings on the computer itself 
when you play a DVD from another region, something that can only be 
done 5 times.

I have basically just divided by computers by region: my office 
computer is region 1, my laptop region 2. I do frame and motion 
captures from region 1 disks in the office and frame grabs from region 
2 DVDs on my laptop. My laptop, however, is not powerful enough to do 
motion captures using Snapz (it would take a long time), so I do those 
on my office computer by hooking it up to a region free DVD player 
using a digital video converter. I then capture the video on iMovie. 
The drawback is that you get some video effects (lines, etc.) that you 
don't get with Snapz, but it is a decent substitute.

> And finally the third: Is there a particular full-scale DVD editing 
> etc. software package that works with Region 2 material, and either 
> works well with, or does not conflict with, MTR and SnapZ Pro?

This I also do not know, but I do edit both the Snapz clips and the 
iMovie capture clips on iMovie. Those files that can be put into iDVD 
if you want to make a DVD. Or you can just generate .mov files to use 
in Power Point, etc.


Aaron Gerow
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Yale University

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