Making video clips for ipod

[cordovainc]

I bought my girlfriend a video ipod for christmas. I want to take clips of her favorite movies and put them on there for her. From what I understand it is a 3 step process:

1. Encode the dvd to mpeg
2. Edit the mpeg to desired clip
3. Convert mpeg to mp4 format.
(4. import to ipod).

Do I have this right? Is there another method I should be using? What tools should I use (according to guides in their respected catagories i would be using TMPGEng to make and edit the MPG file then 3GP Video Wrapper to turn it into an mp4).

Thanks
Larry

[Baldrick]

Or use Nero Recode to do it all, open directly from dvd and do basic editing, convert to mp4.

[cordovainc]

OK I actually have this program, but where inside of it can I set a start and stop time to make a clip? Lets say I wanted to make a 10 minute clip for the ipod (and not the whole movie).