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How to Import and Edit MOV Files in Windows Movie Maker

Common problems importing MOV to Windows Movie Maker:

I'm trying to edit some clips in Windows  Movie Maker, but it doesn't support MOV files, how do I convert the files into and acceptable file? Does Windows Movie Maker hold MOV formatted files?

Sometimes we may come across this problem - the videos that we have downloaded from digital camera or online video sites are in MOV format which Windows Movie Maker does not support. How to make MOV compatible with Windows Movie Maker so that we can load the video files in for editing or playing? Here, we need a workable video conversion program to convert MOV files to Windows Movie Maker formats.

Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate is the best MOV Video Converter, which can convert MOV to AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG, MP3 .etc. Then you can easily import those videos into Windows Movie Maker, edit ,and do anything you want there.

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How to Convert MOV for Windows Movie Maker

1 Load MOV files from hard drive or portable devices

After install and run Video Converter, click Add Files to load MOV files from hard drive or portable devices. And you also can drag the files to this program directly.

Convert mov for Windows Movie Maker

2 Set output format as WMV, AVI, MPEG format for Windows Movie Maker

Click Output Format drop-down list to select AVI, WMV or MPEG format for Windows Movie Maker. Then click "Output Folder" drop-down list to set destination folder for output files.

Convert mov for Windows Movie Maker

3Edit MOV video files (optional)

Click Edit to trim video and set the start time & end time to get multiple clips as you like, crop the frame size, add special effects, add picture/text watermark, or edit subtitle.

4Start to Convert MOV video for Windows Movie Maker

Once you've finished all the settings, click on "Convert" button to convert video. After conversion, you can click the Find Target button to open the output folder and find the converted files. After converted MOV files to WMV, AVI or MPEG, you can easily play these videos in Windows Media Player.

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  • wpsuperplugins  2013-05-15 14:16
    Nice, was looking for something like this
  • Codie  2013-02-20 08:07
    You can refer to the post here to solve your problem. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-pictures/avi/29e9b55a-a413-4de1-b8c8-1d7971217c60
  • Mfuwe  2013-02-18 19:39
    What does this mean? <> It is stopping me importing clips to Movei Maker.
  • GuestHelp  2012-09-12 05:50
    Launch iMovie, click File > New Project to start a project and then click File > Import to load your MOV videos to iMovie. Just that simple! If the videos can't be accepted by iMovie, then the video codec is probably note supported.
  • msnorda  2012-09-11 21:08
    I have converted my mpg videos to MOV videos and now I can't drag and drop into iMovie to work with them there. How do I import them? Thanks