15 second video clip auto ripper?

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Simon

If someone is going to use movie content for free sites and galleries, it makes much more sense to cut your movies by hand, and make sure that what you're using is carefully targetted to match your text and to assist in advancing the goal of convincing the surfer that they need to go see the paysite now.

Not sure if you are around Simon...

I was wondering what tool you would recommend using to cut clips this way?

And if anybody else wants to talk about the tools they are using to cut videos clips like this (picking the beginning and end point of the cut), I'd love to hear about it.