a question about digital camera video

[shedra]

Hello, I just joined this forum, hope someone can try to help me with answers.
I have a Konica-Minolta DiMageZ3 digital camera...using a San Disk 512MB media card. I took a video last night of a Moonflower opening in real time.....3minutes+...but the progress was very slow after about 2min. and 40 seconds. I am wanting to know if I can edit the video to only show 2min. and 40 sec. of it and just "drop" the rest? Because, when I try to send this video, it just won't go...something about memory? (I can't remember exactly, as this was the last time I tried to send a video of another Moonflower opening in real time...it was 10 min. long.)

Do I need to purchase software to be able to do this kind of editing...also...how about this: Do I also need software to stop a video and capture a still frame from a digital video that I took using my camera? and save it to print out.?

Hope I am making some sense. Appreciate any help or if y'all can point me in the right direction.

I am very new to all of this, therefore don't understand a lot of the terminology...so, I need stuff explained to me in pretty easy to understand terms/words.
Thanks.
sherri

[zacsg]

sounds like you need a video editing software, a simple one will do as most video editing software have features to speed up video clips and freeze at any frame.