Windows Movie Maker Help!

[SGRIM]

The reason I haven't made a video with the sound of the cars yet is because I can't get the sound to transfer to WMM It is in my video library fine and plays loud. Transfer it over to WMM and no sound...

Anybody got a suggestion?

TIA!

 

[Toady]

Shane, what's the original file format? (avi, mov, mp4, etc.)

 

[SGRIM]

Shane, what's the original file format? (avi, mov, mp4, etc.)

mp4

 

[Toady]

OK. Lemme mess around with some mp4 files on WMM...frankly, I'm surprised it went at all. I didn't think WMM supported mp4.

What's your usual player - Windows Media, QuickTime, VLC?

 

[Toady]

I tried importing a few different flavors of mp4 into WMM and none of them would go. This is on a machine running XP SP3. That led to a google search, confirming mp4 as a format *not* supported by WMM. I'm not sure how you were able to get the video to import, but more power to ya.

You can convert the file into something that WMM recognizes, like avi, wmv, or MPEG-2. The drag is that when you transcode from one lossy format to another, there's a quality hit. If you're not intending to play it on a 65" 1080p screen, then it may not matter.

There are free apps on the web to do this, but they often come from "suspicious" sites. The VLC player has some limited transcoding ability. If you have access to a Mac, iMovie will let you edit and output another mp4.

Wish I could be more help, but hope this gets you started.

 

[shine1stang]

i was having the same problem with mine, i downloaded several converter programs. So worked but left a watermark until you bought the full version. I settled on Movavi video converter 9, think it was like 30 bucks for it. Easy to use
They say if you have quicktime pro that you can also convert to different formats. I cant confirm

 

[Toady]

QT Pro does let you convert to other formats, but unfortunately nothing that WMM takes.

We use Sorenson Squeeze at work. Converts just about anything to just about anything else, but I think it's a $500 app.

 

[SGRIM]

I tried importing a few different flavors of mp4 into WMM and none of them would go. This is on a machine running XP SP3. That led to a google search, confirming mp4 as a format *not* supported by WMM. I'm not sure how you were able to get the video to import, but more power to ya.

You can convert the file into something that WMM recognizes, like avi, wmv, or MPEG-2. The drag is that when you transcode from one lossy format to another, there's a quality hit. If you're not intending to play it on a 65" 1080p screen, then it may not matter.

There are free apps on the web to do this, but they often come from "suspicious" sites. The VLC player has some limited transcoding ability. If you have access to a Mac, iMovie will let you edit and output another mp4.

Wish I could be more help, but hope this gets you started.

I have windows 7. It doesn't come with WMM anymore. You have to download it from the windows live for free...

It took all the files with ease far as video, just no audio.

I will try to convert some of it and see what happens then. I had a decent video editor program on my old machine, just upgraded. I will see if I can transfer over that program but it is so old it probably doesn't recognize mp4 either

Thanks for the help!

 

[Toady]

It seems Win7 is more forgiving than XP in this regard, but I haven't installed it yet so I'm not familiar with it.

This could be a PITA, but try duplicating the original and then:
* Export only the audio as mp3, wma, or wav (linear PCM) - of course, you'll still need some kind of conversion app to do this, but QuickTime might have this ability without upgrading to Pro. I don't remember.
* Import the converted audio as a separate track and line up the video and audio tracks on the timeline.

Few different ways to skin this cat...catch is the good ones cost $$.
HTH

 

[DailyDrifter]

I would call jay. -

 

[JOHNDEEREGN]

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Damn I need that owned smilie over here

 

[DailyDrifter]

C'mon son

 

[SGRIM]

I would call jay. -

Heck he don't know, although give him a keyboard and some time and he will find out

Remember now, NO ONIONS:biggrin:

 

[DailyDrifter]

Shane I'll take care of you.