You can rip the DVD using a DVD-decripting tool (i.e. be a bit of a pirate). That will give you some .VOB files. Then you can convert this into .MPG files using Ciberlink's PowerEncoder MPEG-4. If you convert a whole .VOB file, PowerEncoder will give you several mpg clips, but as far as I know, you cannot choose how they are divided. So if you are lucky and they are cut just the way you need it, then you can just take them. Otherwise, you can import them into a video-editing software v.g. Premiere, put them back together and then export as an .avi file the parts that you need. I find the whole thing quite complicated, but I've done it and it worked. I also believe there must be easier ways to get it done, but I only work with freeware or trial versions that I can download. Feel free to e-mail me if I can help you in any way. Maria Antonia Vélez Bogota, Colombia. ----- Mensaje original ---- De: SCREEN-L automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> Para: [log in to unmask] Enviado: miércoles, 7 de febrero, 2007 1:00:31 Asunto: SCREEN-L Digest - 5 Feb 2007 to 6 Feb 2007 (#2007-18) There are 12 messages totalling 750 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Teaching Intro to Film & Film History 2. SCREEN-L Digest - 2 Feb 2007 to 4 Feb 2007 (#2007-16) 3. looking for (5) 4. Importing DVD clips to PowerPoint etc. (5) ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:22:06 +1300 From: Paul Ramaeker <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Teaching Intro to Film & Film History > I am slated to teach Introduction to Film and Film History courses next > year. I > want to use the Bordwell and Thompson book, Film Art, for the first > course and the B&T book, > Film History, for the second. However, these books seem so > comprehensive that I am concerned > about how to use class time in a way that will not seem redundant to > the students. Well, first off, don't assume that your students will actually do the reading. Second, there are *some* gaps in the books- for example, Film Art has nothing to say about authorship, and Film History leaves out a lot of detail about film industries which can be interesting (check out Balio's The American Film Industry to fill in a few gaps on Hollywood, for instance). I use a lot of class time focusing in on certain issues in the reading I want to highlight (including stuff in the course reader), bringing in any outside material or issues, talking about the films themselves (most especially in the case of that week's reading), and, by far most importantly: showing a lot of clips. Students love clips, of course, but they are also crucial material for the pedagogy of the course, and the books will never substitute for that. As long as copyright laws are the way they are right now, there won't be a substitute for the lecturer presenting loads of clips. PBR ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:00:01 +1000 From: lisa bode <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: SCREEN-L Digest - 2 Feb 2007 to 4 Feb 2007 (#2007-16) G'day, Well I remember learning first year Film studies from B+T. The classes were organised around seeing how well the ideas from the book could be applied to different films, and a question of were there films that resisted the B+T treatment. We spent many hours watching clips chosen by the teacher, taking notes by ourselves using the different tools from the book to analyse how say, editing, sound, mise en scene etc made meaning in the film, and then breaking into groiups to combine ideas for 15 minutes before each group reported back to the class as a whole. Lisa On 2/5/07, SCREEN-L automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > There is 1 message totalling 21 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. Teaching Intro to Film & Film History > > ---- > For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 09:35:27 -0600 > From: Bartlett <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Teaching Intro to Film & Film History > > I am slated to teach Introduction to Film and Film History courses next > year. I > want to use the Bordwell and Thompson book, Film Art, for the first course > and the B&T book, > Film History, for the second. However, these books seem so comprehensive > that I am concerned > about how to use class time in a way that will not seem redundant to the > students. > > I would appreciate any suggestions as to effective and interesting ways to > approach teaching Intro to Film and Film History courses using these > texts. > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.ScreenSite.org > > ------------------------------ > > End of SCREEN-L Digest - 2 Feb 2007 to 4 Feb 2007 (#2007-16) > ************************************************************ > ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 19:00:57 -0800 From: godard <[log in to unmask]> Subject: looking for *I Was a Communist for the FBI* (1951) and *My Son John.* IMDB does not list them as available for purchase. Thank you, Gloria Monti -- gloria monti, ph.d. fullerton, CA [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:08:19 -0500 From: Jessica Rosner <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: looking for I think I WAS A COMMUNIST may have been released in the EARLIEST days of VHS on the old CBS/KEY label ( also known fyi as THE WOMAN ON PIER 13) MY SON JOHN has never been released They do show up on cable. On 2/4/07 10:00 PM, "godard" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > *I Was a Communist for the FBI* (1951) and *My Son John.* IMDB does not > list them as available for purchase. > Thank you, > > Gloria Monti Proud Resident of a BLUE STATE Jessica Rosner Kino International 333 W 39th St. 503 NY NY 10018 [log in to unmask] 212-629-6880 ---- 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] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:19:31 -0500 From: Eric Schaefer <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: looking for Try emailing the folks at the Danger and Despair Knitting Circle in San Francisco. The website is http://www.noirfilm.com/. They will likely have some leads. Eric Eric Schaefer, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Associate Chair Department of Visual and Media Arts Emerson College 120 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02116 (617) 824-8861 On Feb 4, 2007, at 10:00 PM, godard wrote: > *I Was a Communist for the FBI* (1951) and *My Son John.* IMDB > does not > list them as available for purchase. > Thank you, > > Gloria Monti > -- > gloria monti, ph.d. > fullerton, CA > [log in to unmask] > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.ScreenSite.org ---- 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] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:29:13 -0600 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Barry_Langford?= <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Importing DVD clips to PowerPoint etc. 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] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 12:19:30 -0500 From: kenneth harrow <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: 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 > >---- >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] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 12:07:42 -0600 From: Lou Thompson <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Importing DVD clips to PowerPoint etc. 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. =20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: kenneth harrow=20 To: [log in to unmask] 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=20 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=20 ---- 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] ---- 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] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:30:05 -0500 From: Darrell Newton <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Importing DVD clips to PowerPoint etc. I personally think that best way to use clips is to simply capture portions of VHS tape through a Pinnacle or similar system; trim them and save them as .mpeg or .avi files. These can then be inserted into .ppt at will. Jeremy Butler has a great tutorial available on this, I believe. You can also place these same files on DVD through a program like DVD it, allowing for multiple access to various files. The last time I checked, it was still rather difficult to circumvent the copyright restrictions inherent with DVDs these days. Darrell M. Newton, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, The Department of Communication and Theater Arts Salisbury University 269 Fulton Hall Salisbury, MD 21801 (410) 677-5060 Office (410) 543-6229 Department http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~dmnewton/ >>> [log in to unmask] 02/06/07 1:07 PM >>> 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. ----- Original Message ----- From: kenneth harrow To: [log in to unmask] 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 > >---- >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] ---- 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] ---- 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] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:16:05 -0600 From: Robert Keser <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: looking for Darker Image Video has both of these, on VHS as well as DVD, at reasonable prices. You can contact them at [log in to unmask] --Robert Keser Fine Arts: Film National-Louis University Chicago -----Original Message----- From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of godard Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 9:01 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [SCREEN-L] looking for *I Was a Communist for the FBI* (1951) and *My Son John.* IMDB does not list them as available for purchase. Thank you, Gloria Monti -- gloria monti, ph.d. fullerton, CA [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org ---- 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] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 15:20:20 -0500 From: "Lane, Christina" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: looking for I own a copy of My Son John. I can send you a DVD copy if you send me = your address. Christina Lane ________________________________ From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List on behalf of godard Sent: Sun 2/4/2007 10:00 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [SCREEN-L] looking for *I Was a Communist for the FBI* (1951) and *My Son John.* IMDB does = not list them as available for purchase. Thank you, Gloria Monti -- gloria monti, ph.d. fullerton, CA [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org <http://www.screensite.org/>=20 ---- 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] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 23:19:41 -0600 From: Lou Thompson <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Importing DVD clips to PowerPoint etc. It's obviously possible to copy short clips from DVDs--I've seen many = people use these clips in presentations. It just seems that no one is = willing to share how it is done. =20 And it is legal now for the purposes of scholarship. =20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Darrell Newton=20 To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [SCREEN-L] Importing DVD clips to PowerPoint etc. I personally think that best way to use clips is to simply capture portions of VHS tape through a Pinnacle or similar system; trim them = and save them as .mpeg or .avi files. These can then be inserted into = .ppt at will. Jeremy Butler has a great tutorial available on this, I believe.=20 You can also place these same files on DVD through a program like DVD it, allowing for multiple access to various files.=20 The last time I checked, it was still rather difficult to circumvent the copyright restrictions inherent with DVDs these days.=20 Darrell M. Newton, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, The Department of Communication and Theater Arts Salisbury University 269 Fulton Hall Salisbury, MD 21801 (410) 677-5060 Office (410) 543-6229 Department http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~dmnewton/ >>> [log in to unmask] 02/06/07 1:07 PM >>> 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. =20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: kenneth harrow=20 To: [log in to unmask] 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=20 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=20 ---- 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] ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? 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