Cut-Edit Converted FLV download?

[ranchhand]

I captured a stream of the Charlie Rose show as FLV and my Firefox plugin converted it to AVI. Pinnacle 14 would not recognize it as AVI. I converted it to mpeg2 using XMedia Recode (it plays fine in Windows Media Player and Zoom Player) and Pinnacle imported it, created thumbnails of scenes and I moved it in to the timeline for editing. The sound track plays fine, but the editing monitor window goes green and will not display the video. I just want to cut out most of it (it's 50 minutes) and keep some smaller parts that have to do with advances in technology aiding disabled people with brain/neurological injuries for a class. Does anyone know any program that will let me do a simple cut-edit on this? Maybe a work-around?
Thanks...

[guns1inger]

AVI Demux works with many formats and can do simply cut editing. Personally, I would start by using Video Download Helper for Firefox and not actually converting the file, but downloading as-is. You can then use either AVI Demux, or Virtualdub with the FLV plugin to do your edits, and finally output the video in a suitable format. The less encoding you do, the better off you are.

[Bonie81]

As said by guns1inger, AVIDemux will do the job.

1)Try to download high quality HQ HD version of the video either in FLV or mp4.
2)Try to open downloaded video file in AVIDemux directly, if fails, convert it into AVI with slightly higher video bit-rate (100+).
3)Open AVI file in AVIDemux for editing, and feel free to use sharpness filters to enhance video quality little-bit.

[ranchhand]

Thanks guys, I will try it.

[ranchhand]

Hey guys, it worked great. Thanks a bunch, there will be a lot of happy viewers. Simple cut & save is what I asked for, and cut & save good quality is what I got with a free little proggie, and saved to DVD with Imgburn (unmannerly raspberry sound is here directed at "Mighty Pinnacle14 Super-Duper, All In One, Totally Awesome and Ultra-Most Expensive Version").