Mac software for video clips

[Neal Baker]

KineJapan members -

I use HandBrake to rip DVD clips for the Japanese cinema course I  
teach. It's available for free and outputs to MPEG-4 format, which  
plays on my Mac using QuickTime. Equipped with a data projector, it  
makes for efficient use of clips in a lecture or discussion. You can  
rip individual DVD chapters/titles or combinations of chapters/ 
titles, specifying language, subtitles, etc. Best of all, it's  
incredibly easy to use.

http://handbrake.m0k.org/

Neal Baker
Information Technology and Reference Librarian
Earlham College
Richmond, IN 47374
765.983.1355


From: batgirl at tkb.att.ne.jp
Date: November 29, 2006 11:14:23 PM EST
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Mac software for video clips


Dear KineJapan members,

Now that the US Copyright Office has decided professors can break  
copy protection to use DVD clips in class, would members have any  
suggestions for software to create clips with a Macintosh for those  
of us who teach here and are looking forward to taking advantage of  
the ruling?

A friend recommended the combination of DVD Shrink and Super DVD  
Ripper, but DVD Shrink turns out to be a Windows-only programme.  And  
extended web surfing has turned up much information, but little of it  
helpful, about good Mac programs for compressing not the entire DVD,  
but only clips from it.

Suggestions? Pans? Raves?

Sarah
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