Seeking Software to Capture/Edit DVD Clips

(Apologies in advance if this is the wrong forum for this question. If so, a gentle nudge to the correct one would be appreciated.)
I teach film/literature, and I'd like to be able to put together presentations of film clips from DVDs, with my voiceover, for teaching purposes.
For example: I'd like to be able to show clips continuously of three different Hamlets (Gibson, Branagh, Tennant) doing the same monologue. I'd then like to add my voiceover to that montage.
So my question: *What software allows me to do this?*

Step 1 - convert your DVD video to a format that can be edited. To do this you should download MPEG Streamclip (free) and purchase the Apple QuickTime MPEG2 Playback Component. Then you can use MPEG Streamclip to convert DVD videos to formats that iMovie and Final Cut Express (or Pro) can edit. (Note: if the DVD's are copy protected you may not be able to convert them.)
Step 2 - import the converted video clips into iMovie or Final Cut. Assemble them however you wish them to display. Add your voiceover.
Step 3 - export your completed video from iMovie or FCE. Probably to QuickTime if you want to show from your Mac; or burn a DVD if you want a playable DVD.

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Capture Now, when using controlled TC based devices (aka not uncontrollable device) will bring in the TC which will allow recapture from original tapes if needed.
Yes, I know this, but it didn't seem that this is what the OP was doing.
Yes, I agree Log and then Batch Capture is preferable way to go, but not everyone cares about reviewing their material that way and/or does not have a serious enough capture device. A lot of people use very junky camcorders for capture and the shuttling required in a serious logging process can destroy the mechanism.
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I am an absolute beginner. I have purchased Premiere Elements 7 and I bought the Premiere Bible and am reading that.
My question is, Premiere seems to be software designed primarily to help you make a video production by joining together video clips, sound clips, and photos. Is there a step before this, though, namely editing the clips as they come out of your camera?
I've been using PhotoShop for years, and typically when I take a still photo I open it in PhotoShop and adjust saturation, brightness, sharpness, maybe white balance, rotate if needed, etc.
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Stephen,
First, welcome to the forum.
Next, and this does depend on your camera, you Capture your video from the camera, using a Preset for your Project, that matches the material from your camera.
Now comes the "RAW conversion," though I am using that term VERY loosely. Many people will do basically a pre-edit, by Dbl-clicking the Captured Video in the Project Panel. This opens it in the Source Monitor, where one sets the In and Out Points, basically doing a loose edit of the scenes. The Clip in the Source Monitor can then be dragged to the Timeline. Each is done this way, until they all appear, in the order that you want, on the Timeline. Note: you can drag from the Project Panel, and do this in the Timeline too. Also note: when you play the Timeline, you are now looking at the Program Monitor.
At this stage, one touches up the edits, and adds any desired Effects.
Usually last is any Audio work, like adjusting the Clip's Audio, or adding Narration, and/or Soundtrack.
Export/Share is the final step and one can choose their delivery format.
The exact workflow is a bit different than processing an image in PS, but not totally alien.
Good luck,
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Normally I don't mind as my scenes are usually short and Soundtrack analysis over the whole scenes audio is usually desirable, but this projects files have been transfered from tapes as hour long AVI files (all the tapes clips transfered into one hour long files) and every FCP edited audio clip I send is being treated as an hour long audio file in Soundtrack.
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Thanks Javi, my sequence is an hour and half duration so what I'm trying to do is save processing time in Soundtrack by just processing adjustments on the few audio clips that need processing.
I have set Soundtrack to open referenced audio only and with 5 sec in and out handles, but it still imports the whole original audio file into Soundtrack timeline upto the selected clip, I then double click in Soundtrack on the clip in brackets, and it then selects just the audio clip I want to adjust, then Soundtrack will just process on the edited clip but when I 'render to action' it seems to apply changes to whole original audio file - taking longer than I want.... frustrating
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SoCal thanks for the attention,
sorry for having wrote the question directly in the subject, but first i wrote it by text edit then copied it, but in the wrong place too.....
coming to my question, timeline settings are:
as it is a commercial promo that must be projected in a multiplex cinema, the 2K format is needed.
I've heard about transcoding services, and they are very expensive.
so i'm looking if there is a way to do everything by fcp.
the project will be delivered as SD DVD for archive pourposes and as a single file for the projection or eventually transconding.
p.s.: sorry for my english, i'm from italy: had my last english lesson 35 years ago!

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