[Coach]

Greetings:

I'm a teacher and now that I have found the time to do it, I'd like to select scenes from DVDs my department owns or that I own and create one or a few discs of material that I would show in class. For example, I have at least ten different sources that, say, I teach the Civil War from. I'd like to just take those ten sources and put those five minute scenes on to one disc.

Can I do something like rip the entire documentary, and then select the scenes like 1 hour 13 min to 1 hour 18 min? In some cases it just a specific part, not the entire chapter of the DVD that I want to show.

Eventually, I would love to keep these scenes on a HD and just link to them from Keynote.

With teaching timing is everything. Having the visuals like video is great, but moving from lecture to video sometimes can have its hiccups (esp. when I was using VHS). Knowing that I'm showing "Chapter 3" off my Civil War DVD helps a lot.

Sofware suggestions?

Thanks

[angelmb]

It seems like Cinematize would do it.
Cinematize 2, DVD Extraction Tool, Product Overview

Then free software like Handbrake could also help.
HandBrake

[Coach]

I had my eye on Toast. Would this also do the trick?

[Dark Helmet]

Originally Posted by Coach 

I had my eye on Toast. Would this also do the trick?

Yes Toast should work.

[moonmonkey]

Toast can not RIP DVD's

Use Handbrake RIP the scenes you need as .mov, edit them in quicktime pro and import them into Keynote.

[chabig]

Handbrake has been renamed to MediaFork.

[slugslugslug]

Originally Posted by chabig 

Handbrake has been renamed to MediaFork.

Yeah, but the forked changes are being reincorporated into the handbrake codebase and it'll be Handbrake again by the next release..

[chabig]

I didn't know that--thanks.

[freudling]

You could use mac the ripper.