clipping on windows - newbie resource?

[damned_colonial]

wired has offered to clip some footage for me for a vid, but she's on Windows and I don't know what tools to point her at. Can anyone point me at some newbie resources/free tools/etc for her?

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[rivkat]

I just saved this link, by coincidence. It might be of use.

[damned_colonial]

Thanks, that might be helpful! Most of the instructions there are Mac-related, but Handbrake is multi-platform according to its download page, so at least some of it will apply to Windows.

[chaila]

Are they clipping from ahemmed .avi files or ripping DVDs? If the former, this link re: using VirtualDub to clip may be all you need to know (it got me by forever, until I needed source that wasn't readily available as already-ripped .avis for ahemming).

If ripping from DVDs and clipping, talitha78's Vidding Tech for People who Hate Vidding Tech was hugely useful for me to get started. I do a lot of little things differently than she does (I use the xvid codec, for example, which I can explain if it would be useful) but that link at least helped me get started with both DVDDecrypter and VirtualDubMod (both free) for ripping and clipping.

[damned_colonial]

She would have been ripping from DVDs ... but now it seems she can't find the DVD anyway. Thanks for the tips though... I'll save them for next time :)