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 > >---- >To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L >in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] Kenneth W. Harrow Professor of English Michigan State University [log in to unmask] 517 353-7243 fax 353 3755 ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]