I'm a bit of a newbie and not sure where to post this question, I am a total newbie but my question is about video editing so I also posted this on the Editing, Cutting and Joining forum (I'm sorry to cross-post).

First of all I'm not talking about highly compressed movies for Web, I'm just talking about full quality MPEG2 movies for home use. I've just bought a video capture card and want to edit my movies, like trim the beginning and end so they are neater. However, I'm having a few problems...

First of all, I can't even import my movies into Premiere! They don't show up in the import window. AVIs show up, but not mpeg2s. I know the files are there, but Premiere doesn't seem to recognise them.

Secondly, once I import my mpeg2s, I was wondering if there's any way I could crop the beginning and the end of the movie and save it as an mpeg2 again, but without having to recompress. Surely there's a way to just chop the beginning or end off an mpeg2 without losing any quality. It would be nice if there was a simple tool for chopping my mpeg2s at the beginning and the end, without changing the actual middle of the movie at all.

Thirdly, when I watch a movie I have captured (in windows Media player) I want to take a few snapshots so I press "Print screen". But when I paste into Photoshop the video area is blank! Is there any way around this, or any quick and easy way to take screen grabs from a video (without having to edit the video in Premiere)?

Thanks for any help anyone can give.