I. What do I need before I start?
For this tutorial, you will need the following items:

• A Farscape DVD with the scenes you want (we'll use Thank God Its Friday Again for this example)
• A DVD-ROM drive in your computer (most new computers have these -- if you can watch DVDs on your computer, then you have one)
• About 2GB of free disk space (4GB if you opt to extract the entire episode) on your computer (the more the better)
• The free utility for PCs called DVDShrink for DVD extracting
• A video editor. You can use Windows Movie Maker, which comes free with Windows XP, but this tutorial will deal with ULead VideoStudio 8, which is my preferred editor.
• Some time and patience...

II. How do I get the scenes I want?
Here's where DVDShrink comes into play.

1. Insert the DVD with TGIFA into your DVD-ROM drive.
2. Open DVDShrink and use the Open Disc toolbar button to open the DVD. DVDShrink will take a little while to do some analysis (unless it's already done it for this disc, in which case you'll go right to the main screen).
3. Once the DVD has been opened, click the Re-author toolbar button. In the image below, you can see that on the right side of the window, DVD Shrink has organized the titles on the disc by type ("Menus," "Main Movie," and "Extras").
   
   Since we want TGIFA, and that's the second title on this disc, we probably want "Title 8," the second item under "Main Movie." To be sure, we can highlight that title and then use the "play" button on the preview window to watch a bit of it. Yup, that's TGIFA, so drag that title into the top-left area called "DVD Structure."
   
   
4. The image below shows that we've moved Title 8 (aka TGIFA) to the new DVD Structure.
   
   But unless you want to pull a lot of clips from this episode and you have a serious powerhouse of a computer, you're not going to want to extract the entire episode. (Of course, if you do have a powerhouse of a computer, you're welcome to extract it all.) Fortunately, DVDShrink lets us extract just a portion of a title. So let's say we want the scene near the start when Zhaan, Rygel, Aeryn and John review the recording of D'Argo's hyper-rage. If you right-click on "Title 8" in the DVD Structure area, you can select "Set Start/End Frames..." from the pop-up menu. Do that now.
   
   
5. If you selected "Set Start/End Frames..." from the pop-up menu, you will now see this window:
   
   So use the arrow buttons or slide-bar to set the start frame to the scene right after D'Argo smashes the DRD and fills the screen with static. It's a shot of Moya in space. Then use the arrow buttons or slide-bar to set the ending frame to somewhere in the scene of the pod leaving Moya just after the scene we want. If you did that right, it should look something like this:
   
   Notice that it's going to give us a file that's about 56 seconds long and 58MB in size (see how much disk space this hobby uses?).
   
   
6. Click the OK button to save this selection. Now notice that the "Title 8" duration and length have changed in the DVD Structure area. Go ahead and click on the preview ("play") button below that area and watch your scene to see that it includes all of the roundtable discussion we want. Okay, now click the Backup toolbar button and you'll see a dialog like this one:
   
   Set the backup target to "Hard Disk Folder" and the target folder to some place on your hard drive where you want this DVD scene to be extracted. The rest of the settings in the other tabs aren't very relevant, so don't worry about that at this time. Go ahead and click the OK button.
   
   
7. A status window like this one will appear. The longer your clip (or if you extract an entire episode), the longer this will stay up:
   
   When it's done extracting from DVD to your hard drive, this is what you will get:
   
   Go ahead and click OK and close that. You can close DVDShrink now, since we're done with it for this tutorial.
   
   

III. What do I do with what I just extracted?
Here's where your video editor (in our case, ULead VideoStudio 8) comes into play.

1. Open up Windows Explorer and go to the directory/folder where you saved the extracted video. In my example above, it was E:\media\video\RawDVD, so when you look at that folder, you will see the following:
   
   
   
2. We want to go into the "VIDEO_TS" folder, so open that one, and you'll see this:
   
   
   
3. Note that 58MB "VTS_01_1.VOB" file? That's the scene we cut out. But it's a "VOB" file. What's a VOB file? Well, basically, it's the sort of file that DVD players know how to show. But the good news for us is that it's really just a fancy MPEG file. Video editors all tend to be able to edit MPEG files. So rename that file and change its extension from "VOB" to "MPG".
   
   If you don't see the extension listed in your Explorer window, then you want to go into the Tools|Folder Options menu item, select the "View" tab and uncheck the box that says "Hide extensions for known file types" first (see below):
   
   
   
   
4. Now we have a file we can import into a video editor. If you are happy with little bits at the start and end of the scene that you can easily mark around when including the clip, then you're done. Just move that MPG file somewhere else until you're ready to use it. However, if you want to clean it up now and just include what you want from what we extracted (or if you extracted multiple scenes or the entire episode, and you want to break it into chunks), then open up your editor. Mine is ULead VideoStudio:
   
   
   
5. At the bottom left of the window is a little folder icon, click it and select "Insert Video..." from the pop-up menu. Browse to where you stored the clip and select the MPG file we just renamed:
   
   
   
6. Now use either the slide-bar (marked #1 above), the forward/backward frame buttons (marked #2 above), or the time index box (marked #3 above) to set the current frame to the first one in the scene we want, and then click the "MARK IN" button (marked #4 above) or press F3, just like this:
   
   
   
7. Now use either the slide-bar (marked #1 above), the forward/backward frame buttons (marked #2 above), or the time index box (marked #3 above) to set the current frame to the last one in the scene we want, and then click the "MARK OUT" button (marked #5 above) or press F4, just like this:
   
   
   
8. Finally, click the "Share" button at the top of the window and click on the "Create Video File" option and choose an output format (I tend to use the Make Movie Manager in the menu to add a custom MPEG-2 format, as this is what I think is the best format for clips, since it is DVD quality, yet doesn't take up tons of disk space -- pros will tend to use AVI or other uncomppressed formats, but they will take up TONS of disk space). Then save the clip where you want to store it for future use in music videos:
   
   
   
9. When the file is done, you can close the editor. You now have a clip that can be used in music videos in the future. Congratulations!