Convert AVCHD to Windows Movie Maker on a low budget
This article is going to focus on converting AVCHD to Windows Movie Maker on a low budget. As we know that many editing software applications did not support AVCHD format, it may cost more than we spent on our cameras to edit AVCHD! But now there is an easy solution: Edit AVCHD files on Windows Movie Maker.
Windows Movie Maker is a free video editing package that comes with both Windows XP and Vista. The popular belief is that it is actually capable of working with HD video footage, but, on the contrary, it just can’t upload the AVCHD files. That`s what Aimersoft video converter is designed for. It is the best video converter which can help you edit the AVCHD video from your camera on Windows Movie Maker.
You just need a few steps to convert AVCHD to Windows Movie Maker. If you want to know how to import other formats onto Windows Movie Maker, you can learn it from this article:
How to import video/DVD into Windows Movie Maker and burn windows movie maker project to DVD?
1. Install “AVCHD to Windows Movie Maker Converter”
Free download video converter, run it, then you can see the interface like below:
2. Load your AVCHD files
Click "Add" button to load AVCHD video files
3. Set the output setting for your Windows Movie Maker.
Select the output video format from the pull-down list of Profile. Here we select WMV for Windows Movie Maker and Windows Media Player
Tips:
Select FLV format for upload to YouTube
Select MOV format for QuickTime
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4. Start to convert AVCHD format to Windows Movie Maker
Now click the "Start" button to start converting AVCHD video to Windows Movie Maker, Within several minutes, you can find the converted file on your computer by clicking "Find Target" button. And then you can import the WMV file into Windows Movie Maker.
5. Import the output video WMV into Windows Movie Maker and edit it
Run Windows Movie Maker. Click "File" --"Import" to select the converted files, then you`ll see the WMV file in your Windows Movie Maker "Collections". You can free edit your AVCHD on Windows Movie Maker as you want.
As to how to use Window Movie Maker to edit your video, you can find the answers from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx
You can also convert your AVCHD video to the format that supported by YouTube, iPhone, iPod, Zune and other general mobile phone with this best video converter.
