Lean video editing software?
 

I'm looking for simple lean video editing software. I just need to delete chunks of video from the file. To make the video shorter. I don't need to add anything to the video. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can use? I don't have a super computer to run some of that other stuff on.

Windows movie maker, it can do that precisely and quickly and its free.

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mencoder is about as lean as you're going to get. It's about a 7MB download for Windows, smaller for POSIX systems like Linux.
That's what I use. Look up "edit decision lists", or EDL. They mark chunks you want to take out.

To make the edl, play under video with:
mplayer -edlout somefile.edl thevideo.mpeg

Use your spacebar to mark sections to cut.
Edit the edl in a text editor if you want, thrn run the final edit something like:
mplayer -edl.somefile.edl thevideo.mpeg newcopy.mpeg

The script I actually use is:
#!/bin/sh

edl=/tmp/edl.$$

echo "playing video, please press 'i' to start and end skips"
sleep 2
mplayer -ao sdl -quiet -edlout $edl $2 $3 "$1"
echo -e "\n\nPreviewing video...\n"
sleep 2
mplayer -ao sdl -edl $edl "$1"
echo -e "\n\nTo change timing, edit $edl\n\n"
echo -e "New name?: "
read newname
mencoder "$1" -edl $edl -oac copy -o "$newname" -ovc copy

On Windows you can run it by hand, adjust the above to be a bat file, or use cygwin.

FOr VERY SIMPLE stuff like this I'd use IMovie for the edit/chops and MPEG Streamclip if I wanted to interlace/deinterlace to reduce digital artifacts.

Sony vegas or even leaner is sony movie studio. Both are awesome, especially with sony cams.