The phrase "a brief segment in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a short portion or excerpt within a larger context, such as a text, video, or conversation.
Example: "In the documentary, there is a brief segment in which the director discusses the challenges faced during filming."
Alternatives: "a short excerpt from" or "a small portion of".
In a brief segment, the news anchor provides commentary over a video that shows Amanda singing to her webcam audience.
— Sunday's rainout of Game 2 of the American League Championship Series gave Texas Rangers starter Derek Holland another opportunity to watch a brief segment of the most important movie in his life, a movie he has never watched to its conclusion.
CBS News aired a brief segment Monday night documenting the uptick in publicly demonstrated opposition to health care reform, which has been recently seen manifesting itself through angry protesters at town hall meetings.
But in 1987, ABC's "Nightline" prepared a brief segment on the 40th anniversary of Robinson's debut.
I had seen a brief segment of Ian Hislop's Channel 4 documentary Not Forgotten, which featured Tull in his capacity as one of the first black professional footballers in Britain.
A report by Reuters in the "Arts, Briefly" column on May 11 about criticism of a brief segment on Nickelodeon, on the Battle of the Alamo, referred incorrectly to part of the narration.
For SETI@home the procedure is fairly straightforward: at any one time each volunteer is working on a brief segment of a signal from Arecibo.
Mr. Miller pointed to brief segments in which players talk about things like working hard and peer pressure, adding that the rules do not require "every second of every show" to be educational.
We will do this through displaying posters on the children's classroom door, including brief segments in the weekly school newsletters and sending home advance-notice postcards to all students in Grade 1 at each participating school.
Nearly anyone who has watched TV in the last twenty years is familiar with The Simpson's intro, which always features a different brief segment at the end as the family rushes to sit together on their couch.
