pulling still pictures of of a dvd home movie

Play the DVD with DVD Player.app on your Mac and take a screenshot of paused DVD where you want still by using Grab.app on your Mac/Application/Utilities folder or press ShiftCommand4 to turn mouse cursor into marquee tool that you can click+drag to take screenshot that is saved as image on your desktop.

Oh yeah that's right sorry I forgot about that. I just tried technique with Snapz Pro 2 and it works try Snapz Pro 2 or use MPEG streamclip to convert DVD back into QT movie, open in QT and take screen capture using shift-command-4

There's an easier way. Use VLC Player, and select Video menu > Snapshot.

Snapz Pro X will let you make screen grabs of DVD screens as will the VLC Media Player (as has been noted here).

The images on an NTSC DVD are only 640x480 pixels (in digital still image square pixel terms). That's only 0.3 megapixels. They won't be too bad as 3X prints, but they won't make good 5x7 or 8x10 prints.

Click on the link in my post to download vlc. Vid capture quality will be poor, yes. Standard def video is the equivalent of a 0.3 megapixel camera.

Thanks for the star!