Unless you have permission (ie sony making a "what not to do on he set" training video and uses footage from their movies). Check out www.dvdrhelp.com for help. It's a pain in the but process.

I'm making a video montage for our Church Eastor Concert and wanted to use some scences from the "Ten Commandments" DVD. We called Paramount Pictures on a fluke to see if we could get permission.

They got back to us in about 2-3 days and said no problem knock yourself out (in so many words). Now I think that fact that we are a church (read non-profit) and we were not selling DVDs with the images.

Point is, that answer to an unasked questions is always No (someone more famous than me said that).

BTW, it would be quite ironic for us to use the TC DVD with out permission... If I remember correctly there was something about "thou shall not steal" :)

Of course, thats not in writing, strictly inuendo unless you have the paper. But you do have Jesus for a lawyer.

JJK

Okay thanks - now assuming one did have permission, how would one go about doing it?

www.dvddecrypter.com - extract the VOB's and just pull them into Vegas.

thanks - and sorry for the barrage of questions, but:
I ripped a VOB chapter to my hard drive - but when I try and import it in Vegas, nothing shows up. Am I missing a step, or are the files I need to decrpyt on the DVD?

Thanks again..

Vegas doesn't reconize the file extension (if I'm understanding what you are saying); if you use the explorer window in Vegas you can pull the file onto the timeline, or rename the file .mpg