Help me with audio/video stuff on my computer

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StarshipTitanic
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Help me with audio/video stuff on my computer

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I want to do these two steps:

Take a video off of YouTube (The angry O'Reilly one, yeah I know it's cliche).
Take the video's audio and chop it up for soundbites.
Ideally, a third step would be to add various effects to the audio (He's underwater or he's speaking over a radio etc.)

What free program(s?) do I need to accomplish this? The first two steps are the vital ones. I can cope with not having the ability to play with the audio other than cutting it.
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Re: Help me with audio/video stuff on my computer

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There are several sites that can save Youtube videos for you, as well as a few Firefox extensions. Googling "save youtube videos" provides quite a list of both, and I use DownloadHelper myself. Audacity would take care of the other two steps quite handily, provided you install ffmpeg and set Audacity to use it.
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Re: Help me with audio/video stuff on my computer

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I'll second Audacity, and use keepvid.net or .com or whatever the hell it is to save the video, a lot of the other websites have apparently had problems since YouTube changed something or other.
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