Finder doesn't remember which app to open with

I'm working on a large text file which is used as a data file for an application. It always defaults to MPEG Streamclip when I go to open it, which I do not want to happen--I want it to open in a text editor. I can change the Open with: option in Get Info but if I alter the data and save it goes back to default MPEG Streamclip on reopening. Then I have to go through a lot of navigation again to get Get Info to open it in TextEdit. This may have to do with the fact that the extender for use with the particular application in not .txt or .doc but something else. Of course I can open it from TextEdit, but that's a bother too. Still it's a text file and I'm wondering if there's a way to make it always open with TextEdit.
thanx,
Ken

Hi,
I knew there is a way to set an application as standard to open a file everytime with it so I tryed around until I found it
Take the file you want to open -> right click or ctrl+click on it -> say open with.... -> other -> now here select the application you want to open the file everytime with -> now before you click on ok set a checkmark in "Always open with" -> now click open
Once this is done it should open everytime with the selected application.

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