Settings for changing DVD to streaming web movie

I have found parts of an answer to my question strewn across this discussion group. I'm hoping someone can put the entire process down in one place for me and others.
Here's my story. I received a formatted DVD of a friend's 100 minute film. He recommended Handbrake to rip the film. Handbrake's default has ripped it into a mp4 format. Trying to load that into imovie looks like it will take hours. SO, instead, now I am processing it with Quicktime Pro, to turn it into a quicktime movie. Nonetheless, this process has taken over an hour. THEN, I plan to load it into imovie HD, create a few shorter excerpts, and export them for web streaming.
I have a feeling i didn't need to do all these steps. Can someone tell me where I can find the most concise description of both efficiently formatting, (please include actual settings), to transform a DVD to the correct film format, and then imported into imovie for eventual streaming over the internet. Are there several different formats for the internet. Anyway, I am a pro sound editor so I do understand the concepts, but not the actual process. Thanks in advance.

I work using QuickTime Pro and you can, too. No need to bring the file back into iMovie and wait for it to convert it (again) just to edit or rearrange clips.
The same steps outlined above can create multiple selections as new files and you can join them together using Pro.
Make your new "selections" and save these new QuickTime files to leave your original untouched.
Open all of these new files in new Player windows. Let's say you have ten new "movies" you wish to join together.
Starting with the clip you wish to make the "start" of your new file you can build it up by simple copy/paste.
Open clip "2", Select All (Command-A) and Copy (Command-C).
Switch back to the clip "1" file (Command-~ to toggle through open windows) and place the playhead at the end of the file and Command-V to paste. Close clip 2 window (Command-W) to help keep things organized and have fewer open windows.
Open clip "3", Select All and Copy. Open movie 1 (it will have the playhead at the end of the timeline) and Paste. Close window 3 and open clip "4" to repeat the steps until all have been added together.
This file is still known as clip 1 and you want to Save As (self contained) and rename the file so you don't overwrite the original.
You can then delete all of the "parts" to free up HD space and continue editing the final (joined) file with Pro.
No importing into iMovie. No re-compression of already compressed files and very fast if you use the keyboard shortcuts.

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