How to Edit an Embedded Video
Often, it is difficult to find the exact video clip you would like to edit from an open source file-sharing program. Instead of ripping a 30-second clip from a DVD or waiting for that perfect song on a CD to upload, many popular media websites already host these clips. If you have video editing software on your computer, working with an embedded video online is easy to use knowing the right techniques.
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Instructions
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Visit a popular media-sharing website (Myspace, Facebook, Youtube, Hulu, Crackle, Megavideo) to select an embedded video you would like to extract and edit. Pick a video that is high quality, has a large resolution rate and can handle being compressed into a Quicktime movie (MOV) file.
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Download the videos online to your hard drive with video conversion software such as KeepVid. (See Resources) Copy the URL of the online video, paste it into the download toolbar and click "Download" to begin conversion. Choose what type of file format you would like to save the video in. Choose the Quicktime Movie (MOV) option so that the movie will be formatted in a higher quality resolution rate and less compressed than the MP4 option, which is only suitable for cell phone/small frame rate viewing.
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Make sure you have video editing software already on your computer (Final Cut Pro, Windows Movie Maker, Adobe After Effects). Locate your new, compressed MOV file that you have created from the embedded video online and open it with your video editing program. Splice, edit and sync the MOV file as you would any other video you are editing. Make sure the audio is in stereo channel setting. Render and capture the newly edited video in the Quicktime MOV format. Choose the "Best Quality" format under the options setting and highest resolution rate.
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Tips & Warnings
Be careful to choose an embedded video for editing that hasn't been compressed too much already or is too low in quality. You will have to compress the file twice more, once through Keepvid.com to extract the file and convert it to a MOV file, and second through your editing program to extract the newly edited file. If you originally select a file that is already grainy, by the time you are finished editing the video you will lose a lot of the detail and quality, and it will not be worth playing.
