Speaking of hypotheticals
 

If I wanted to take an hour-long YouTube video and pull out a three-minute segment for my own YouTube purposes, how would I do that? (I do know how to embed a start time into a link I share, but I'd like to be able to end the thing too.)

You'll need to download the video and then use some sort of video editing software to trim out the parts you don't want.

If you bought a Canon point and shoot (maybe others too, IDK) it comes with basic video editing software for .avi files which is what I think the camera produces.

If you can save the video as an .avi file, great, otherwise use something like Oxelon media converter to convert it to .avi.

You can go to http://videater.com/ and copy and paste the youtube URL into the downlaod box and choose your preferred format.

Hypothetically.

Thank you thank you thank you!

I thought you meant how to embed start AND END codes... we can do that by putting the start and end into the link as such, and it works similarly on embeds elsewhere

G5-5cpdAvB8?start=17&end=29

Oh, that end code, that's handy as hell. Thank you, UT.

Shouldn't that '?' be a '&'?

Unless it (the '?') was part of the video identifier?

Either one works here on Teh Cellar. Don't know about other places.

As a small aside, videater kept failing the download somewhere between 40 and 100 megs each time. But I found another one. I won't post the link here because while my security/antivirus happily let me go there earlier this morning, now it's claiming it's a "web forgery." I got my video clip though.

cool!