DVD Capture Capabilities

Can I use the DVD player built into my iMac to capture excerpts from movies? I'd like to create a little spoof of trailers. If not, I have a Sony DVD Player/Recorder and VHS Player/Recorder that I've used with ADVC-300 to convert analog to digital. I tried to use that but the images are way too dark to see. Suggestions? I've only been using an iMac about a year so keep my instructions simple
thanks.

Betting these movies are copy protected. That's why they appear dark coming in through the Canopus.
And you don't want to mess around with copywrite busting software. Do you?

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