chessmec: thanks! it works perfectly! and its free ;)

i managed to turn the movies easily (and resize to reduce the size) and to cut them in pieces .... its a great program!!

the only disadvantage is that it can only save as avi ... does anyone know a nice free program to convert avi into mpg ?

i did a search on google, found a lot of them .. tried one .. and it gave me a really artistic mpg .. lost of moving shapes .. but you couldnt really recognize any human forms anymore ;)

does anyone know an avi to mpg convertor which works better ?;)