[ale] [OT] Video editing advice?

[Jim Kinney]

Cool. I just remembered that DownloadHelper can save even flash to mpeg
format which is editable.

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:54 PM, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:

> Hi Aaron,
>
> Actually I got 'er done -- the "Easy YouTube Download" add-on
> to Firefox, plus Open Movie Editor (http://www.openmovieeditor.org)
> did the trick.  On Linux, even :-)
>
> -- J
>
>
> On 5/29/2010 8:40 PM, m-aaron-r wrote:
> > I do this kind of movie clipping for my life partner all the
> > time as she frequently uses examples from films in her
> > class and professional presentations -- They're central
> > to her scholarly work and her book "Super Heroes and
> > Greek Tragedy: Comparing Cultural Icons".
> >
> > Unfortunately I do it all on Mac, so let me know if you
> > have access to an OSeX machine and I'll fill you
> > in on the process off list.  If you go from the DVD there
> > will be Destructive Restriction Mechanisms to deal
> > with.
> >
> > peace
> > aaron
> >
> > On 2010/05/29, at 16:42 , JK wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> Need some help: I'm doing a presentation tomorrow, and it would
> >> be AWESOME if at a specific point I could show a brief video
> >> clip from The Princess Bride -- specifically, from 0:19 to
> >> 0:27 of this YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjuZiVrrJZ4
> >>
> >>   Buttercup: "What about the ROUS's?"
> >>   Wesley: "Rodents of unusual size? I don't think they exist."
> >>   ROUS: POUNCE!
> >>
> >> I own a copy of the film on DVD, but I've no idea how to extract
> >> just that bit, either from my DVD or from YouTube.  Don't want
> >> to spend hours researching, since I'm in the midst of writing the
> >> final draft of my talk.  Advice and/or pointers to explicit
> >> instructions would be greatly appreciated!
> >>
> >> (Note: clip will be played in Windows Media Player on my church's
> >> XP laptop, most likely. I can capture/edit on Linux, though.)
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> -- JK
> >> --
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> >>   - physicist Lawrence Krauss
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