Need to copy video from dvd to be able to email

Question

I am a realtor and have a video of a sewer scope on dvd. How can I copy this onto my Mac so I can email it to the other realtor in a size that can be emailed?

Answer 1

This is probably the wrong forum to ask this in since this forum is dedicated to non-Intel-based Macs.
That being said...
I can not guarantee the following will work, but you can give this a try.
I will assume that the movie on the DVD is not copyrighted.  Put the DVD into your optical drive.  IF iDVD starts up, File Quit it from the Top Menu.  IF the DVD has not appeared on the Desktop (it should look like a CD/DVD), click on a blank spot on your desktop so that the word Finder appears next to the Apple in the top left corner of the screen.  Click on the word Finder, scroll down to Preferences, and open the Preferences.  A window will open, click on General at the top of that window. Under Show these items on the desktop, check the box by CDs, DVDs, and iPods.  The DVD should now be visible.
Double click on the DVD icon, and a window will open, showing all the contents of that DVD.  If the movie you want is the only thing on that DVD, click, hold, and drag it over and drop it on your hard drive icon.  A copy of the movie will be made on your hard drive.  If there is more than one movie, or movies and pictures, you can copy all of them, or hunt until you find the movie you want.
If the movie file is too large to easily e-mail, download the program FLV Crunch (Google it).  When you open FLV Crunch, at the top of the window to left you can see a button labeled Format to convert the movie into a different format.  I suggest .mp4.  On the top right of the window, under Resolution, uncheck the box keep original value.  Down below that, under the tab Presets, select iPhone.
Now, click on the button Add.  A window will open, click on you hard drive, select the movie you copied to there, and click the button Open.  The movie should now show in the box to the bottom right on the Converter window.  Click on the Start button, and FLV Crunch should now begin to convert the movie.  A progress status in percentages, should appear next to the movie in the box.  When it's done converting, it will say done.  Click the Remove button, to remove it from FLV Crunch window.  Theoretically, and I say theoretically as I have never tried it, the converted movie should now be a smaller file, and more easily emailed.
Good luck.