How to make editable? Iclips of a DVD movie

[eyeM4tune8]

I am (unfortunately) a newbie. I would like to make a dvd in which i dub short scenes from other dvd movies. I have Pinnacle Studio Plus (as well as roxio media 7.5, sonic MyDVD, and a few others preloaded on my Dell laptop). I downloaded DVD Shrink and have been able to strip copy protection and write the video_ts files to my computer, and make an ISO file, and I've written back to a dvd the (hopefully) unencrypted files.
What I have'nt been able to do is load only part of a movie, (a single chapter or just a few scenes) to an editing program (like Pinnacle studio). I've just spent several hours fooling around with Flask, and I van't seem to make it write an avi or mpeg file using the .vob or .ifo files in the video_ts directories.
Can anyone give me direxction as to what the best program/programs are to take just part of a dvd (movie), unencrypted, and edit it with Pinnacle?
I'd love to do this in the next week!

[LT. Columbo]

this guide can be used to take certain parts of a dvd

http://www.dvdshrink.info/compilation.php

[eyeM4tune8]

Did I miss something? I'm still trying how to figure out how to make it editable. Don't i need it in avi, or mpeg, etc form?

[LT. Columbo]

you can change the extensions of the vobs to ".mpg"

[megamachine]

The DVD Shrink guide is for making a compilation of scenes from DVDs, but if you have many different movies in mind, it could get cumbersome, since you would need to have several DVD drives, or will have to rip all the DVDs to your HDD first, before selecting the parts to compile using DVD Shrink. And, if you want to add transitions and do other editing, or have a menu, Shrink can't help much. So, you are left with extracting the parts you want and then loading them into your editing program, which I assume accepts AVI and MPEG. There are a few ways to do this, and I am sure others will recommend theirs, but in my case I usually use VirtualDubMod. Load the VOB, it reads it as an MPEG-2. Then, isolate the scene you want and save it as AVI using a lossless codec like Huffy, or if you have the space, uncompressed. Assemble all those clips in a folder, delete the ripped DVDs and load the clips into your editing program. If you are short on HDD space, you can try working with MPEGs. First, does your editor accept the VOB files? If not, you can change the extension, as Lt Columbo notes, or as another approach you can use VirtualDubMod to frameserve your selection to an MPEG encoder (there are guides on the net for that). Sometimes, I use DGIndex to select the parts I need, which saves them, if I recall correctly, as M2V for video and WAV for audio, but your editor might not accept M2V, so you would have to use TMPGEnc to change that to MPEG, using MPEG Tools. Anyway, there are lots of ways to do this stuff and it takes a little bit of tinkering around to find what you like, but if you want to do editing, it is worth the effort. After messing around, write into the forums and some one will be happy to assist. Hope this helps.