Lost Video Island

[mercury_phoenix]

of course there are ways to get lost clips from the internet - acceptable ways. However, I've been wanting to make a LOTR vid for the LONGEST time and the only way I've found thus far of getting the footage onto the computer is ripping the whole bloody dvd. Not very space-friendly - one disc would take up ALL of my free space. So, how might i go about getting individual clips from the dvds to...editing friendly avi clips? I was hoping someone here would know...anyone? please?

~tecnology impaired~
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[Polarbear]

I use dvd x. You can specify the time to encode/rip and you get a preview of it so you can see what it is.

http://www.labdv.com/dvdx/
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[mercury_phoenix]

Thanks, I'll be sure to try it - hope it works.
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Touch my world/with your fingertips
And we can have forever!
And we can LOVE forever!

[mercury_phoenix]

I have the programs but I'm having issues making it do my bidding...i hate to be a pain, but how does it work?
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Touch my world/with your fingertips
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And we can LOVE forever!

[Polarbear]

It's okay here's a few tips:

If the dvd is locked won't open try playing it first in a dvd program pausing it then rip it should be unlocked now.

To open a dvd click file, dvd root and select the dvd then the contents of the dvd will come up and if you want the movie just select the longest one.
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[mercury_phoenix]

It worked! *happy dance* well, it half worked...it worked on WMM but not on my other program, which said it wasn't enabled for PAL...shall try to fix this...but thanks for all your help!
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But touch my tears/with your lips
Touch my world/with your fingertips
And we can have forever!
And we can LOVE forever!