Importing Windows Movie Maker Incompatible Videos

Windows Movie Maker (formerly known as Windows Live Movie Maker, codenamed Sundance) is a freeware video editing software by Microsoft. It is a part of Windows Essentials software suite and offers the ability to create and edit videos as well as to publish them on SkyDrive, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. --- from Wikipedia

Windows Movie Maker is kind of powerful yet easy-to-use video editor, because of which it is favored by global users. Before using the Windows Movie Maker, it is necessary for us to learn something about this almighty program:

Knowledge about Windows Movie Maker:

Supported Input Formats
Video Formats: asf, avi, WMV
Movie Formats: MPEG1, mpeg, mpg, m1v, mp2
Audio Formats: mp3, wav, snd, au, aif, aifc, aiff
Windows Media Video File: asf, wm, wma, WMV

Supported Output Formats
Windows Media Video File: wmv
Windows Media Audio File: wma
DV/AVI Video File: avi

Well, from is shown above, we can notice that the supported formats of Windows Movie Maker are limited, which means not all videos are editable by it. Yet considering where we can get the original video data when we try to make a homemade movie, we probably will import the source videos from DVD discs or footages from camcorders except downloading from the Internet. However, as we inferred from above, the Windows Movie Maker does not natively support the DVD (.vob/.iso) videos and camcorder (AVCHD/MOV/MOD, etc) footages. So it would be a pain in the butt to get these videos run on Windows Movie Maker right. Here comes out topic today: how to edit any video with Windows Movie Maker.

As has been mentioned above, WMM does not support DVD videos, so if you want to import a DVD to Windows Movie Maker, you need to use a third-party DVD to Windows Movie Maker Converter to help. By doing so, the DVD videos will be ripped down from the disc and be converted to WMM-accepted formats so that you can edit them on it. Recommended program: Doremisoft DVD Converter.

As to the camcorder footages like MOV videos, you should choose this Video Converter to convert MOV to Windows Movie Maker so as to get the source video runs at the right form. Besides, this converter can also convert camcorder footages to other video editor in addition to WMM. For example, you can use the converter to convert GoPro Hero 3 to Premiere with high efficiency and with no quality loss.

OK, that’s all the contents about this topic today. Have fun!