Import chapters from our DVD - legally!

We have various DVDs from my daughter's dance studio that the studio wants me to place online at our website - (I should say chapters or dance numbers, not the whole DVD, obviously) so that viewers can sample our dance tech by watching the imovies online.
I can, taking the long way 'round, import the DVD chapters to my video camera and import them to iMovie 6HD, but I have Mac the Ripper, and also MPEG streamclip - both of which work, however, I'm told that I need to get the MPEG-2 playback component from Apple, which I'm willing to do.
What format does iMovie neeed to import video in from this source? I want to import the footage from the DVD (via MacRipper & MPEG Streamclip) create the movie in iMovie, and then upload it to our studio's dot Mac website as I usually do.
Alternatively, what is the best/shortest/easiest way to get certain chapters off our DVDs and make our imovies with them?
Thanks,
Rachel.

concerning mpeg4 as final format:
I made a few "side by side tests" with my QT6pro and iSquint...
using the same (small) bitrate, results of iSquint are by far better, then QT6's mpeg4...! (it uses its own/the ffmpeg algorithms...) esp. titles are crystal clear/no jaggies, or transitions don't show any artifacts....
iSquint has some limitations in size/res, but a web-video shouldn't be full-screen, should it?
so, esp. when crunching video very small, I do recommend export as FullQuality.dv and let iSquint (free) do the job...
audio... mono is for most videos good enough on the web... ;-))

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