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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?

1Import AVCHD files

Click button to load AVCHD files from your computer or camcorder(or other devices like USB, cell phone, etc). You can also directly drag the video files into the program directly.

convert AVCHD to Windows Movie Maker

2 Edit Video

Click or on the top of the main interface, you can then customize AVCHD videos.

Crop -You can crop the frame size and get what you want by setting the video zoom to full screen, 16:9, 3:4 or others.

Trim - you can easily trim your AVCHD video into multiple segments by moving the sliders or just typing the number in manually.

Add effect -Configure the brightness, contrast, saturation, and add special effects like Gray, Emboss, Negative, Old Film to personalize your AVCHD video.

Add watermark- If you want to add some image or text watermark to decorate your video, you can click "Watermark". It also allows you to configure the parameters such as transparency, vertical space, and horizontal space.

convert AVCHD to Windows Movie Maker

Tips: If you want to rotate your video to be normal, you only need to upgrade to Aimersoft Video Converter Professional, which adds the function of 90°/270°contraclockwise rotation of the video.

3 Set output options

Select Output Video format from "Profile" drop-down list, and then choose proper destination folser for converted video files.

4 Start to convert AVCHD to Windows Movie Maker

Simply click 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.

5Import 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.