I am making a reel. How do I take clips from past DVDs Ive made and place them into Final Cut 4.0?

Anyone answering,
I am making a reel to show businesses what kind of work I can do. I am trying to take clips from past projects I have finished and place those clips in FCXpress 4.0. How do I go about doing this? Any advice on how I can do this will be a tremendous help for me.
Thank you for your time!!

Hi Jeremy,
You will have to convert the DVD video to QuickTime using either Apple DV or Apple Intermediate Codec.
Most people in this forum seem to use MPEG Streamclip to do this.  I have used it a lot it and it works great.
Note that in addition to MPEG Streamclip (which is free), you will need the QuickTime MPEG2 Playback Component if you do not already have it on your Mac.  It is available from the Apple Online Store for $19.  This needs to be on your Mac in order for MPEG Streamclip to be able to convert the MPEG2 video that is on your DVDs.
If it were me, and the video is standard 4:3 aspect ratio, I would probably convert it to QuickTime/DV; if widescreen 16:9  then I would probably convert it to QuickTime/Apple Intermediate Codec instead.
After converting the video, select  an appropriate FCE Easy Setup to match how you converted the video in MPEG Streamclip.  Then import the converted file(s) and edit them into a new sequence.

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