I NEED SOME TECH HELP/WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER HELP!!???? PLEASE HELP!!?

Question

Okay, so a friend and I mad several videos that i was hoping to put all together in one video on youtube. To do this, I am using windows movie maker. There is only one problem, though. Each time i try to drag the videos to windows movie maker (they were shot on my kodak camera) this message comes up:

The file C:\Users\Public\Videos\100_1030.mov cannot be imported because the codec required to play the file is not installed on your computer. If you have already tried to download and install the codec, close and restart Windows Movie Maker, and then try to import the file again.


I have no idea what to do! Please help me it is urgent that I get this video done by the end of today!! I am so frustrated :'(

Answer 1

You have to download the Divx/Mov codec. But even then, you cant use the .mov file in WMM. You have to convert the file .Avi



Use this-

http://www.jakeludington.com/ask_jake/20051003_convert_mov_to_avi.html

Answer 2

Kodak video cameras are hitting the market, especially the pocket video camera Kodak Zi8, due to the ease of use and high output quality. Kodak video cameras don’t offer video editing, so if you want to edit Kodak videos, you will need and video editing application to do that, and Windows Movie Maker is a very popular video editing application for a lot of Windows users. Kodak video cameras, such as Kodak Zi8, Kodak Playsort etc take videos in MOV format, but Windows Movie Maker does not support MOV files. Therefore, to edit Kodak video on Windows Movie Maker, you need to convert Kodak video to Windows Movie Maker WMV.



have a try at http://www.kodakconverter.com

Answer 3

Windows Movie Maker is a very popular video editing application for a lot of Windows users. The accepted formats for import are .WMV/.ASF, .MPG (MPEG-1), .AVI (DV-AVI), .WMA, .WAV, and .MP3.

and MOV, MIDI, AIFF, AAC and SWF are not supported.



Kodak video cameras, such as Kodak Zi8, Kodak Playsort etc take videos in MOV format, but Windows Movie Maker does not support MOV files. Therefore, to edit Kodak video on Windows Movie Maker, you need to convert Kodak video to Windows Movie Maker WMV.



Doremisoft Kodak Video Converter is a wonderful application that let you convert Kodak video to WMV so you can transfer Kodak video to Windows Movie Maker to edit your Kodak videos.



http://www.prlog.org/10836812-doremisoft-announced-doremisoft-kodak-video-converter-402.html

Answer 4

Windows Movie Maker is a very useful application to edit videos, and it has many features such as effects, titles/credits, transitions, audio track, timeline, narration and so on. However, if you want to edit Kodak videos using Windows Movie Maker, you will have to convert Kodak video to Windows Movie Maker supported video formats such as WMV, AVI and ASF.



Kodak video to Windows Movie Converter can do the job perfectly. The following two parts will guide you through the steps to convert Kodak video to Windows Movie Maker and edit Kodak video with Windows Movie Maker.

http://www.kodakvideoconverter.com/article-kodak-windows/edit-kodak-video-with-windows-movie-maker/

Answer 5

This is file format issue, because windows movie maker don't support mov file, so you met this problem, to make a video from several videos for youtube, I know a better and free software can do that well, you can follow me to use Youtube Movie Maker, it can make and upload youtube videos from various videos, pics, musics, texts, etc, such as make a youtube video from several mov videos, etc. and it provides hundreds of special effects to help you to make cool youtube videos, better than windows movie maker for youtube video creation. You can download it from makeyoutubevideo.com, easy to use, hope it can help you.

Answer 6

You know WMM cannot read Kadak MOV files, WMM can supports wmv, avi, mpg, so if you need to convert kadak mov to wmv, avi or mpg firstly, then import them into wmm.

You can try a professional Win Kodak Video Converter which is designed for all Kodak digital video cameras users to convert Kodak video MOV file to WMV, ASF, AVI, MP4, 3GP, etc as you wish.

Answer 7

Windows Movie Maker is a video creating/editing software, included in Microsoft Windows Me, XP, and Vista. 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. Windows Movie Maker is also a basic audio track editing program. It can apply basic effects to audio tracks such as fade in or fade out. The audio tracks can then be exported in the form of a sound file instead of a video file.



The accepted formats for import are .WMV/.ASF, .MPG (MPEG-1), .AVI (DV-AVI), .WMA, .WAV, and .MP3.

and MOV, MIDI, AIFF, AAC and SWF are not supported.



More info about windows movie maker is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Movie_Maker



And Kodak camera video should be .mov file



So you want to edit mov with wmm, first you can convert mov to wmv, avi, mpg with doremisoft kodak video converter:

http://www.doremisoft.net/Kodak-Video-Converter/



More details for how to convert kodak video mov to windows movie maker supported video:

http://www.doremisoft.net/convert/kodak-camcorder-videos/for-windows-users/

Answer 8

Kodak supports the mov format, while windows movie maker can only understand wmv/avi/mpg , if you want to import Kodak video to windows movie maker, you need to convert hd mov file to wmv, hd mov file to avi, hd mov file to mpg. Kodak to windows movie maker Converter is good solution to tackle such issue and offers specific tutorials for you to jump right into convert Kodak video.



Source:

http://www.kodak-converter.com/kodak-playsport/convert-kodak-playsport-to-windows-movie-maker.html

Answer 9

As we all know that windows movie maker support WMV/AVI/MPG video format but not MOV format.

More info look the Microsoft offical website:



http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308464



So, if you want to import Kodak MOV video to Windows movie maker, you should convert MOV to WMV first. you can search google to find How to import Kodak Video to Windows movie maker, or you can try this one. there is a Step-by-Step guid to tell How to import Kodak Mov to WMM:



http://www.kodak-video-converter.com/kodak-video-to-windows-movie-maker.html



Good luck.

Answer 10

Kodak camera shoots videos in mov format which cannot be recognized by windows movie maker. You could try a professional kodak video converter to convert kodak mov to wmm suppotable wmv, avi, mpg. Recommend you a great converting tool I am using.



http://www.vconsoft.com/kodak-video-converter/import-kodak-video-to-wmm/



Evaluate by yourself. Hope it helps you. lol

Answer 11

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Answer 12

yes, it is a bit tough, as the kodak camera shoot footage as .MOV. it is unsupported by Windows Movie Maker.



WMM supported file types:

Video files: .asf, .avi, .m1v, .mp2, .mp2v, .mpe, .mpeg, .mpg, .mpv2, .wm, and .wmv

Audio files: .aif, .aifc, .aiff .asf, .au, .mp2, .mp3, .mpa, .snd, .wav, and .wma

Picture files: .bmp, .dib, .emf, .gif, .jfif, .jpe, .jpeg, .jpg, .png, .tif, .tiff, and .wmf



you need to convert MOV to WMV or MPEG for editing in Movie Maker.



http://kodakconverter.com/edit-kodak-video-with-windows-movie-maker.html