Ok...the title is deceiving. I'm looking for anyone who has good video experience. My daughter had a video made of her (not that way you perv) of her first sky dive for a senior project. Problem is it's 6 minutes long and has to be shortened to 2. I have IMovie and IDvd on my mac but not sure if this type of format can be imported into either of these programs to splice it down. Don't have the DVD in front of me at the moment but it has an Audio and Video folder inside when you open the DVD if that helps. The Audio appears empty or hidden and the Video has about 6 different video files in it.Any advice on this would be extremely helpful...
Tanks you from me and da daughter

i used this to rip a video from from a protected DVD, and another piece of there soft to convert it to .avi so i could load it into flash to edit it, flash did such a good job of compresing it i did'nt need to edit it, got it from 750mb to 44mb but i did loose the sound somewhere along the line, i just overlaid a music track onto it
http://www.effectmatrix.com/

CONCEPT > VIDEO

http://www.hallcross.co.uk/Fleet/index.html

If you look at the files on a DVD, you will notice that most DVDs have both a VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folder, but the AUDIO_TS folder is usually empty. DVD-Audio would be stored in an AUDIO_TS folder but is a separate format to DVD-Video.

The Video data (including audio) and extra features (menus, subtitles, etc.) are encoded in the VOB files. You need to extract the video data. VOB2MPG is the first tool that comes to mind.

VOB2MPG goes through a whole DVD VIDEO_TS folder and joins up the various vobsets to produce mpgs for the different titles. Requires .net framework 2.

I don't know how this will work on a mac. How about this article
http://www.lafcpug.org/tutorials/basic_dvd_x_dv.html

Here is another free APP that I have used to my advantage: HandBrake.
(and it is MAC-happy )

Yeh..as Vokes said. The vobs are basically just Mpeg2 files with a different extension name.

well as mentioned that is what I have as far as files go...

I read over what you guys have suggested and of course ran with what seemed to be the easiest for mac (Reinman). Not knowing what I'm doing and just to see how the program works I grabbed the biggest video file (VTS_01_1.VOB) and ran it through HandBrake. It created an mp4 file but would not open through quicktime or import into imovie. I did another one and made it an avi file and it worked and imported into imovie with no problems except (always gotta be one of those) it was blank
This is what the settings look like in HandBrake. I'm sure it's not as easy as grabbing a file based off what you said Vok but I'm having some fun playin around with it. Thanks so far for the help all.

try the free version of total video converter, simple drag and drop, converts to any of 16 formats
http://www.effectmatrix.com/

tried it....pc only from what I can see. I did see this though which someone mentioned to me a while back that is something else I can't use (pc only) but seems cool. You can supposedly just right click on a video in a webpage and download it. It's E.M. Youtube Video Download Tool in the same link you posted

Update... I went to the link that Vokaris has above and downloaded the "dvd_x_dv" demo and that works great! Probably purchase it for the $25 that it runs. This is what I'm lookin at now in IMovie.

It even let me extract the audio so I can put in new audio if I want. So far so good. This is fun....with everyones help

if you use firefox there is a free plugin for downloading youtube movies

that's what I use...have to dig for that one

How about this (free) tool for mac
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html

and some instructions
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/%7Eshmhav/SVCD_on_a_Macintosh.html#edit_convert_MPEG
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6010.shtml

You have gone TOO FAR!

looks like the program is free but that you need to buy something for quicktime to make it work correctly.