Thanks for the suggestion, never heard of this one. I took a look, and it sounds promising. I will try to get it installed and let you know how it is working for a novice at video clipping and editing like myself.
Here in their main page for anyone else who may be interested in checking this one out:
http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/
Update: This works great, although it took me a while to figure out the controls. Here is my first clip that I cut with it as a test:
https://vid8.poal.co/user/Mister_Sunshine/Iq3cFVq?autoplay=off
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