I think Barry was asking how to capture clips (moving) rather than stills.  WINDVD has a copy version but I haven't tried it yet.  I hope to learn from the responses to Barry's question here.  

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  From: kenneth harrow 

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  Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 11:19 AM

  Subject: Re: [SCREEN-L] Importing DVD clips to PowerPoint etc.





  you can capture frames and save them using intervideo windvd. it 

  takes no expertise

  ken harrow



  At 11:29 AM 2/6/2007, you wrote:

  >A couple of years back there was a useful exchange about how best

  >*technically* (i.e., copyright concerns aside) to rip clips from DVDs for

  >incorporation into lectures using Powerpoint etc. Lazily I've never got

  >round to trying this myself but with a paper due at SCMS in Chicago in

  >March and likely problems over playback of Region 2 DVDs etc. (to say

  >nothing of wanting to minimise time spent loading discs, enduring studio

  >idents, browsing menus, etc., in the middle of a 20-minute talk), it's

  >clearly time for me to bite the bullet.

  >

  >The earlier discussion (headed "a basic question" if anyone's interested)

  >directed users to resources such as doom9.org etc. Having looked at this

  >it was to me at least (as a technical dunce) dismayingly tech-savvy (the

  >first recommendation under "learning the basics" was to build your own PC

  >from components and install Windows from scratch! yeah right...). So I was

  >wondering if the intervening years have made this task at all easier. Is

  >there a user-friendly programme for simply copying a few minutes of a

  >commercial DVD to one's hard drive, whether shareware or for purchase? I

  >would imagine almost everyone bar me has been cheerfully doing this for

  >years so I'm happy to humbly accept whatever guidance I'm given!

  >

  >Many thanks

  >

  >Barry

  >

  >Dr Barry Langford

  >Senior Lecturer in Film Studies

  >Department of Media Arts

  >Royal Holloway, University of London

  >Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX

  >

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