#MP4 WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER MOVIE#

Websites that offer free downloads of Movie Maker are not offering the real thing, and those downloads may contain malware, viruses, or hidden costs.

For formats like FLV, MP4 and MOV, Windows Movie Maker only supports them in the presence of codecs. Windows Movie Maker, part of Windows Essentials 2012, is no longer available for download. Next, right click at the video file and select Save as to convert the file to MPEG-4/H.264 (MP4) or Windows media file (WMV). Windows Movie Maker is known to support formats for Windows operating system, such as WMV, AVI, MPG, WAV and WMA. Then select File to open the WMM project file. If so, those laughtop specs are marginal for smooth playback of valid *.mp4 files (MP4 container, AVC video, AAC or MP3 audio), let alone edit them. Launch Windows Live Movie Maker from the Start menu.

They can do more harm than good because they mess with registry settings: altering codec significance, defaulting codecs used by what type of media player program, disabling some codecs, etc, as well as install nasty malware, adware, and viruses as bonus. It can output to some forms of *.avi, *.wmv or transcode and create a compliant DVD. Though both can read MPEG4 files if appropriate codecs are installed, movie and DVD maker can't compress or output to MPEG4. Did you deliberately install windoze movie maker? The one that comes with Win8 is DVD maker. For starters download mediainfo, go into its tree view, and post here the info describing what exact specs the files have that come out of the camcorder, and the ones produced by movie maker after 'compressing'.

Is there any way around this (codec packs etc.) or should I just switch to different editing software? Any recommendations either way? You have to be clearer. The compressed file plays choppy and pixelated in WMP, VLC and Media Arc (HP product with camera). Windows Movie Maker compresses only in mp4.

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