Program for capturing video segments

[random]

What I have is an an hour long show that I want to capture or extract small segments of an actor to upload for their web site. Maybe about three to four 30 second spots.

 

I am having troubles with the programs that I have been trying.

 

Media player classic works the best for playback but the capture mode is grayed out. VLC does not allow smooth playback.

 

Arcsoft Showbiz seems to allow me most options however the only format for saving a project is in the .sbz format only known to the showbiz program. Figured out how to save the .sbz, seems many had troubles with the GUI as it only gave the .sbz option available to save as, google had a host of forums with this problem listed.

 

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated and I guess the only way for me to have flawless playback is to get a video pci card.

 

TIA

Edited November 29, 2006 by random

[dbminter]

Well, first, I would need to know what format the source video is in. i.e. how does it current exist? Tape, DVD, AVI, MPG?