A quick way to create shorter clips out of longer ones without video editing: set the Starttime and Duration parameters in the ASX file.

Example ASX file:

<ASX version = "3.0">

  <Title>the title of the video/s</Title>

  <Entry>

  <StartTime Value="00:09:36.00" />

  <Ref href = "mms://myvideoserver.com/myvideo.wmv" />

  <DURATION value="00:00:05.00"/>

  </Entry>

  </ASX>