Hello Rob
Like you, I used MS MovieMaker until I went 100% Linux.
Desmond showed me PiTiVi and that's what I now use, doing pretty much 
the same as you want to do.
Here's an example of result for web, from a stills camera: 
http://steamtube.ning.com/video/walschaerts-valvegear-mhr-12  (best at 480)
Both my computers are 2GB too.
Happy to help (off list) if you need.
Tony Wood
(from Linux PC)
On 29/09/11 14:12, Rob Malpass wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> With due respect to those that do it all the time and love it - I hate 
> video editing.   What I need to do at the moment is take a 3 hour mpg 
> file and split it (manually is fine I'm not in need of a batch job) 
> into 6 half hour mpgs.
>
> My only experience is Windows Movie Maker which has always crashed on 
> me with long mpgs.   So I'm happy to try something Linux (Ubuntu 
> probably but I do have a Slackware box).   Could someone please 
> suggest something that makes this simple job easy?   I don't need 
> anything more involved than something which lets me move to say 29 
> minutes, watch from there, then split when I click the mouse?
>
> Most of my boxes have 2Gb  - is that enough?
>
> Cheers
>
> Rob
>
>
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