Well, he was told that Popcorn would break the video down into parts. Then all he would have to do is import the parts into imovie to edit. THen he could us a quicktime download to rip it to impeg. But this didn't work. What kind of program is the best for ripping apart a DVD?
I didn't read the original post completely. I see now that making a DVD is not the goal. My post then is useless.
I cannot help with Apple extraction issues. Sorry.
iMovie will break the video into parts too. When you import from the camcorder, break it up into segments.