greetings,

a non professional project i have is to create a montage of about 1 second clips from various films on dvds.

if there is an award for 'most completely ignorant film editor', i would win it; except for the 'editor' part. i know how to operate my movie player (bluray) and i can still 'program' a vcr to record multiple times over a 1 year time period. that is about it.

i have a macbook pro 2008, the latest free update to the os, 10.5.8, 2GB ram, a trainer hard drive at 250GB, only dvd reading smart drive.

i could use some advice as to what film capturing software and/or film editing software i could use to create my project. would rather not spend a great or even not so great amount of money on new hardware/software as i don't know that i would use the new gear to create anything like this again. i am going on an assumption that 1 second clips from modern and not so modern films do not need licensing.

with the completion of the project, idea is to post on youtube.

thank you