Editing video's
 

Does anybody know any cheap or free software to make small movie clips out of 2 minute video's :question

... which format are you talking about? there is avi/mpg/ra/asf/fuck_knows ...

avi: virtualdub
mpg: nofuckingidea
asf/wmf: windows media producer
ra: real audio producer

... and if you want to invest some money, get mediaclearner, I think there is a 30 day trial out somewhere, it includes all the above shown and is some really great software, but it ain´t free ...

Well, this must be my lucky day! It's .mpg :disgust

The reason that I don't want to invest to much money is the fact that this is just an experiment...

hmmm ... best thing to doo is get a mpg2avi converter, there are a lot of free ones out there:

http://www.google.com/search?q=mpg2avi

... any will do, once you have an avi you could use virtualdub to split the avi into little files. just play around a little bit, but if you have no idea what codec/audiocompression/ means expect at least some days of testing until you get a decent result. but yes, virtualdub is the one you need ... enjoy !!

You might give Studio DV a try. It is about $100 and does what you want. You can download a free trial from Pinnacle. It is a good one to learn with but I have not been real happy with the mpeg results. Cleaner was mentioned above and it is an awesome program but it costs about $500.

Good luck.