How to Import MP4 to Windows Movie Maker

"Windows Media Player 11 recognizes and plays MPEG-4 just fine but WMM doesn't recognize them. I would like to import some MPEG-4 files into Movie Maker and work with them - is there a codec or something that allows this?"

Above problem you may meet when you need to import MP4 videos to Windows Movie Maker, Windows Movie Maker is not compatible with .mp4 video files, so you'll have to convert the file into a compatible format, .wmv or .avi for example.

How to Convert MP4 to WMV or AVI?

Import MP4 to Windows Movie Maker, the first step is to convert MP4 files to Windows Movie Maker supported media formats-WMV or AVI. Here we recommend Aimersoft Video Converter, which is very useful tool to convert MP4 to WMV or MP4 to AVI.

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1Load MP4 videos

Install and run Video Converter. Click button to load MP4 video files that you want to convert from your computer or camcorder(or other devices like USB, cell phone, etc). You can also directly drag the MP4 video files into the program.

2Select output options

Select WMV or AVI as output format for Windows Movie Maker and choose a proper output path as the destination folder for the converted files.

3 Start to convert MP4 to WMV/AVI format

Click button to start the conversion from MP4 to WMV/AVI.

After video conversion, the video files are compatible to Windows Movie Maker. Just open Windows Movie Maker, click "Movie tasks" and select "Import video". Seconds later, the video files will be displayed on the main panel of Windows Movie Maker.

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