Handbrake

I know many teachers, e.g., who want to be able to snip out small, exact clips from films and insert then into academic presentations. Occasionally, I want to compile and burn a series of such clips onto a single disc for classroom use.

Any recommendations for an application that allows for this level of video editing/extraction? It seems that MacTheRipper and Handbrake only allow one to select by “chapters,” not time signatures.

All I wanna do is: Make a straightforward copy of my DVDs (which I bought legitimately) onto my hard disk, circumventing the DVD region codes. Why? Because I bought the DVDs when living abroad, but Macs let you switch regions only a few times before making you commit.

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

The forum on mactheripper.org is dead. Is the software itself dead/unsupported?

(FYI if anyone cares: Mactheripper goes thru the process, but at the end shows a red “bad sectors” warning panel. The ripped file won’t play in DVD Player, Front Row or VLC. I’ve tried all major settings in MTR: “full disc extraction,” “full disc extraction ARccOS,” “main feature extraction,” etc.)

Only intel based macs will recognize this format.

frustrating!

Is there a solution?

Thank you for the thorough reply. Sounds like MTR is the answer to my issue since I simply wanna watch the movie on the iMac unhindered. (And don’t care whether or not it’s still on a disk.)