Software Tool Q - cutting video for jam loops

[Reverse Entropy]

I'm not recording with my laptop but I use it often to stream songs I'm learning.

Similar to that use, I want to cut up some YouTube videos and play them back as loops to practice solos, etc.
I already can rip these as Flash FLVs for the most part, but I don't have an editor. What I need is a quick and dirty means to cut them to a chosen breakpoint.

I don't even require the ability to normalize or adjust audio levels, just something that will trim an FLV into a precise clip and not glitch up the audio in the process.

Any suggestions ?

[RustyMetal]

There's always more than one way to skin a cat. But none so that the cat will like.

Let's see, you can download the video from YouTube as a .flv then chop it in Windows Movie Maker as a video. You may have to convert it to a Windows format like .wmv first. Then rip the audio out of it with RealPlayer Converter - I think.

You can take the downloaded video and use RealPlayer to rip the audio to .MP3, .wav, etc, then open it in Audacity and chop it up there. Essentially you set the start point and delete all before that, then move to the end point of where you want and delete everything after that, and voila. You have the middle section you want. Now, I know you can set Audacity to loop the audio if you're playing it from there, but to set it to a programmed loop that you can export the audio file with the loop built in? I'm not sure about that. I've never tried to do that. Play with it and you'll find something I'm sure. If not, then just play the audio section in Audacity where you can set it to loop manually.