[teddyFBI]

Thanks for the link, but i downloaded that, and tried to use it, and thought that I had been successful, until I started the clip that I had made, and that's where things got wacky:
The original hour-long .avi file was only 350MB, but the 3-minute CLIP i created was a whopping 2.18-gigs! That, plus the audio was all screwed up. I must not have done it right, although the clip i made did start and end at the places I designated >> but why was it so HUGE?

Want to give me a quick stepbystep tutorial? All I did to create my file was use the "mark in" and "mark out" controls (the ones that look like bookends) to select where i wanted my clip to start/stop, and then clicked "save as..."