>>>Actually it looks like freeware wont do it for me, so if I could find
>>>video editing, and cropping that can be saved as wmv or avi and is
>>>really good, for a low price, I'm interested.
>>
>> http://www.virtualdub.org/ may do the trick. The price is right 
>
>Saw that. Wont work with wmv files, only avi. You gotta use converter
>software to convert them, which makes HUGE file sizes and the results werent
>pretty. ( I tried it )
VirtualDub imports wmv files using a plugin. It natively exports avi,
whose output file size and quality depend on the avi codec used.
Virtualdub can also frameserve its output to an application that can
convert to another format.