How can I edit flip video with Windows Movie Maker

Already installed on newer computers that are running Windows XP, Movie Maker has drag and drop features to make creating and editing your movie easier. Microsoft has many add-ons for this software, and upgrades are available through the website. This is one of the best free video editing software programs available.

Supported formats for importing content

Video files: .asf, .avi, .wmv

Movie files: MPEG1, .mpeg, .mpg, .m1v, .mp2

Audio files: .wav, .snd, .au, .aif, .aifc, .aiff

Windows Media files: .asf, .wm, .wma, .wmv

Still images: .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .jfif, .gif

MP3 format audio: .mp3

Supported formats for saving movies

Windows Media video files: .wmv

Windows Media audio files: .wma

DV/AVI format for video: .avi

Those who have fun from taking shoot of videos with Flip camcorders also desire to edit the flip clips and create their own family video with Windows Movie Maker. However, clips form Flip SlideHD, Flip Mino HD , Flip Mino HD, Flip Ultra, Flip Ultra HD are in MP4 format, which often arise error when they are imported to Windows Movie Maker.

A better solution to edit flip video with Windows Movie Maker is toconvert MP4 files to WMV from Windows Movie Maker, as WMV with the full name Windows Media Video is the most welcomed video on Windows by Microsoft program.

There are a batch of software range from free online converter to commercial download shareware developed to cope with MP4 to WMV conversion. In consideration of the bad quality of picture loss or sound miss, people who have higher requirement of video quality prefer to use reliable shareware, which is also easy to function and handle.

Take Doremisoft Flip to WMM Converter for example. Flip to WMM Converter developed by Doremisoft acts excellently to convert MP4 video from Flip camcorder to WMV for Windows Movie Maker. Steps to edit flip video in Windows Movie Maker with the help of program Flip to WMM Converter are simply as follow.

Import flip MP4 video from camcorder to program Flip to WMM Converter.

Select the WMV format from the Profile list as the output format.

Convert flip MP4 to WMV.

Finally, import the generated .wmv into Windows Movie Maker for editing.

Step 1: Click "New Project" from the "File" menu to create a new project.

And click "Save Project As" to save this project.

Step2: Click "Import Collections" from the "File" menu, locate the folder where the converted files (now in WMV format) are save, and add the files you want to edit.

Step3: Drag the video files to your Windows Movie Maker storyboard on the bottom of the interface.

Step4: Add transitions. Select "View Video Transitions" from the left panel. Drag the transitions you prefer into the middle box of the storyboard.

Step5: You can cut some time from a video by clicking and moving the half triangle at the side of the video.

Step6: Add music. Go to "Import Audio or Music" and select a song. Then drag the song to the "TimeLine". You can also cut time or make a short sound by clicking and dragging the triangle.
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