WMM wont open my mpeg file

windows movie maker doesn't recognize mpeg 4 files. you need to use the software that came with your camcorder, or you might try downloading another player by doing a search for mpeg 4 editing programs. one other option is Media Converter (also media converter pro) there you can convert the files to avi or wmv that win movie maker can use.

Movie Maker is NOT the software you want for this process :D I tried a few years back as did my friend but it didn't work. Movie maker is ver basic and designed to teach children basic slideshow/video techniques. Try installing the free trial of Corel Video Studio Pro x3, this can make propper dvds, and also makes your files HD.

Windows Media Player 11 recognizes and plays MPEG-4 just fine but WMM doesn't recognize them. I would like to import some MPEG-4 files into Movie Maker and work with them - is there a codecs or something that allows this?

I'm sure I can find a program to convert MP4 into a format MM will recognize but if possible I'd like to just skip the conversion step and work with MP4 directly in MM.

Thanks!====================================================
Movie Maker is not compatible with MP4 files...
best bet would be to convert them to .wmv.

The following freebie might be worth a try:

Format Factory
http://www.pcfreetime.com/

All to MP4 / 3GP / MPG / AVI / WMV / FLV / SWF.
All to MP3 / WMA / AMR / OGG / AAC / WAV.
All to JPG / BMP / PNG / TIF / ICO / GIF / TGA.


You need some software to convert the protected M4P music file to unprotected MP3, WAV etc first, then you can import the mp3 files into Windows Movie Maker as background music.
TuneClone is such a software to convert the M4P music file to MP3, WAV easily. You can click here to download TuneClone and convert them to MP3 files and then import the music files into Windows Movie Maker project.


TuneClone uses a virtual CD burning technology to simulate the burning and ripping process and can convert M4P files to MP3 without any CD-R disc and do this work quickly. TuneClone installs a virtual CD-RW, it helps you burn any unprotected or DRM protected M4P, M4a, WMA music files onto the virtual CD, rips tracks on the virtual CD, encodes tracks onto MP3, WAV or WMA music files. It can repeat this audio converting procedure until your whole music collection is done.
Since the virtual CD emulates your computer RAM and hard disk as erasable CD-RW drive (Virtual CD-RW), the converting speed is faster than any other m4p to mp3 conversion programs.

Windows Movie Maker is video creating/editing software that is included in recent versions of Microsoft Windows. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie. New effects and transitions can be made and existing ones can be modified using XML code.

Try the freeware program Any Video Converter. Download and install from a reputable site ( try cnet ) . This program is very user friendly and can convert .mod to mpeg fairly quickly ( around 60 minutes of video in 40 minutes ). It can also convert to other formats like avi and wmv. After it's installed, Click add video button and locate your files. Then in the drop down menu on the right, select the format you want the files to become and leave all options to default.

Windows XP? Are you using windows movie maker (WMM) to import them? I begin by copying the ".mod" files to my computer off the flash card which I insert into my printer. THe software Canon provides is useless. Next I change the file extension to ".MPG". Next open WMM, import video file, but when it starts doing so choose cancel. I don't know why that is. If you let it continue the import it seems to lock up. It will then let you drag and drop that video clip onto a movie.

I prefer Wondershare video converter, it could not only convert MOD files to Windows movie maker but also the best HD video converter and AVCHD video converter which can convert HD video and AVCHD video to avi, convert m2ts to avi, convert mts to avi, convert ts to mp4 etc.. with excellent quality.

Flip video Camcorder is a creative digital device produced by Pure Digital Technologies. Four series include: the Flip Ultra, the Flip Ultra HD, the Flip Video Mino, and the Flip Video Mino HD. Flip video Camcorder records video in .MP4 format, which is compatible for iTunes, iMovie, QuickTime Player. However, it is not understood by Windows Media Player and Windows Movie Maker. Is there any way to solve the problem?

iOrgSoft Flip Video Converter is an intimate friend of Flip video Camcorder. Owning it, you can encode flip video to common video formats: AVI, MPG, MPEG, WMV, FLV, SWF, MKV, VOB, DV, 3GP, MOV, RM, RMVB and extract audio track from the referred video formats to MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, AC3, MP2, AMR, AIFF, FLAC, M4A, MKA, and RA files.

If you need to edit flip video in Windows Movie Maker, set the output profile as Raw AVI, MPEG-1, or WMV format, and then import the converted files into WMM. Like to enjoy the captured flip videos on your iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Zune, BlackBerry, Gphone or other MP3/MP4 players? Just set the corresponding device profile.


Reference:

How to import Flip video files into Windows Movie Maker?

Flip Video Converter is a gorgeous application for Flip video camcorder (the Flip Ultra, the Flip Ultra HD, the Flip Video Mino, and the Flip Video Mino HD) users to import Flip video files into Window Movie Maker for editing, like crop out black sides, trim video clips, merge multiple flip videos into one file, and add special effects.

Buy Now Free Download Flip Video to Windows Movie Maker How to use Flip Video Converter
How to import Flip video files into Windows Movie Maker (avi, mpeg-1, wmv)?

Step 1: Connect Flip video to Computer
Slide USB latch down. USB arm flips up automatically and then plug it into USB port on computer. Save your flip video files to your computer with FlipShare, a built-in software that makes organizing, editing, and sharing video incredibly simple.

Step 2: Launch Flip Video Converter
Open the captured Flip video files from your hard disk, and add them into Flip Video Converter, you can load one or more flip video files or the whole video folder at one time. The loaded files would be shown in the info list.



Step 3: Edit video-Trim, Crop, Effect
Trim: By setting the start time and end time for flip video, you can get your most wanted video clips.
Crop: Drag and drop the dashed-lines around the video, you can cut out the unwanted black sides.
Effects: You can get personalized videos by adding vivid effects, like Gray, Emboss, and Old film.


Step 4: Output Settings
Profile: Select your target video type from the drop-down list. AVI, MPEG-1, WMV is fit for Windows Movie Maker.
Output: Specify the output folder the ready-to convert files.
Settings: Click it, you can set exact video audio parameters in the pop-up window.
Merge into one file: Tick it, you can join several flip video files into one file.

Windows Movie Maker is a basic video editing and creating software developed by Microsoft. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie. The accepted formats for import by Windows Movie Maker are WMV, .AVI, MPG, .ASF, .WMA, .WAV, and MP3.

Puzzled about how to import DVD to Windows Movie Maker for further editing? iOrgSoft DVD Ripper can do that job. Not only rip DVD to Windows Movie Maker acceptable videos including AVI, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, ASF, but also convert DVD to MPEG-4, MOV, AVC (H.264), MOV, 3GP, FLV, SWF.

Tutorial: How to Rip DVD to Windows Movie Maker, import DVD to Windows Movie Maker?
Step1: Locate your favorite DVD to the program-DVD to Windows Movie Maker.


Step 2: Specify output video format compatible for Windows Movie Maker, like AVI.


Step 3: Click “start” button to start the process of ripping DVD movies to .AVI video.

[img]http://www.mp4kits.com/Guides/WMM/dvd-to-windows-movie-maker/importdvdtowmm/convertdvdtoavi.jpg[/img]