Newbie question - how to I get movie trailers off internet

My wife and I are having an Oscar awards party. We thought it would be neat to send out DVD invitations with each of the nominated Best Picture movie trailers. I found several locations with the trailers but have no idea how to save them to my computer. I think I know how to get them onto the DVD when I get the video files on to my computer, but it's the first step I'm clueless about. In the old Windows world (just bought a Mac), I could "right click" on the video source and save to computer. Can I do something similar here in the mac world?

SirScabs,
If you right/click or control/click on the movie link or file you will get a choice to download the linked file to the desktop. If it is in Quicktime format there are no problems, but if it is in WMV (Windows Movie) format you will have to convert the file. You will also find the quality will be very poor as the files on the internet are very small, so they are not really reproducable on DVD. As for the copyright issue. It probably is a breech, but as long as you don't send one to any Hollywood executives you should be OK.

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