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When importing a video into Windows Movie Maker, you may find that the video is automatically split into several movie clips. Why this happens? Windows Movie Maker does this just to allow beginners to add effects and transitions to the video. If we don’t need to add effects, is there any way to combine them back into one? Yes, you can prevent the video splitting by following the steps:

1. Open Windows Movie Maker

2. Click File > Import into Collections or (Cntrl + I)

3. A dialog box appears which allows you to import videos. On the bottom left side of the dialog box, there is the import options

4. You will find a check box says “Create clips for Video files”

5. Just uncheck the check box(remove the tick mark)



How to combine video clips in Windows Movie Maker?

1. Import video file into Windows Movie Maker.

2. Drag and drop video clips into Timeline frame.

3. Using CTRL to select two or more clips and then click Clip in the upper bar. In the drop down menu, select Combine.



Tip: This seems to only work for video clips that were previously one piece and you have to only combine contiguous clips. If you want combine different video files to a single one, turn to iOrgSoft Video Converter by ticking “Merge into one file” option.



4. When finish working on a project, you can save the movie with .wmv extension by click File->Save Movie File->My computer->Enter a name and choose a save path->Movie Setting, finally save the movie.



Tip: This is for Windows XP users, as a Vista user, you can publish the movie to your computer by click File->Publish Movie, the follow procedures that are similar with Windows XP.

Note: If your video files are not recognized by Windows Movie Maker, maybe your computer lacks of corresponding codec, the easiest way to fix the problem is to download iOrgSoft Video Converter and transform the original video files to avi, wmv, asf, or mpeg video that are read well by WMM.`

Windows Movie Maker is a basic video editing and creating software developed by Microsoft. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie. The accepted formats for import by Windows Movie Maker are WMV, .AVI, MPG, .ASF, .WMA, .WAV, and MP3.

Puzzled about how to import DVD to Windows Movie Maker for further editing? iOrgSoft DVD Ripper can do that job. Not only rip DVD to Windows Movie Maker acceptable videos including AVI, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, ASF, but also convert DVD to MPEG-4, MOV, AVC (H.264), MOV, 3GP, FLV, SWF.

Tutorial: How to Rip DVD to Windows Movie Maker, import DVD to Windows Movie Maker?

Step1: Locate your favorite DVD to the program-DVD to Windows Movie Maker.

 



Step 2: Specify output video format compatible for Windows Movie Maker, like AVI.



Step 3: Click “start” button to start the process of ripping DVD movies to .AVI video.



 

Windows Movie Maker is a basic video editing softwre included in Microsoft Windows. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie. New effects and transitions can be made and existing ones can be modified using XML code.

 The layout consists of a storyboard view and a timeline view, collections for organizing imported video, and a preview screen. When in Storyboard view, the video project appears as a film strip showing each scene in clips. The storyboard/timeline consists of one ‘Video’ (with accompanying ‘Audio’ bar), one ‘Music/Audio’ bar, and one ‘Titles/Credits’ bar. In each bar, clips can be added for editing (e.g., a .wav music file will belong on the ‘Music/Audio’ bar). Still images can also be imported into the timeline and “stretched” to any desired number of frames. The Video and Music/Audio bars can be “cut” to any number of short segments, which will play together seamlessly, but the individual segments are isolated editing-wise, so that for example, the music volume can be lowered for just a few seconds while someone is speaking.

Windows Movie Maker is a easy get video editing program, and it is useful. But we know WMM can only accept AVI and WMV video format. So if you want to edit the videos in Windows Movie Maker, you can convert the videos to AVI format. AVI is a good choice for editting videos, because it can give better quality. And AVI is a old format developed by Microsoft Company, so it can be supported well in Windows.

So we need a video converter now. There are many video converters online. What I am using called Leawo Free AVI Converter. It is a clean and free AVI converter which can convert videos to AVI from most popular format like WMV, MOV, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, MPEG, DV etc. It can support batch mode and can merge several videos into one files too. So if you have more than one video to deal with, this function will be really helpful. Now let’s start to convert videos to AVI for Windows Movie Maker.

step 1, Open the program of course. You can see it has a laconic interface here. It is a easy to use tool.



step 2,

Add video files. Click “Add” to browse in your video. Find the videos you need to convert. Or you can just drag and drop your video onto this converter. Your video will appear in the file list. And you can add more than one videos once.



step 3,

Customize effects. (This function is only allowed to the pro version!) Click “Customize” to open the “Customize” window. Then you can customize the output audio and video:

Effect: Adjust the video effect for a better visual effect. Simply drag the slides of “Brightness”, “Contrast” and Audio “Volume”. “Flip” is to turn the video upside down, while “Deinterlace” is to improve the TV system video effect when playing on computer system.

Trim: Modify the “Start Time”and “End time” with values directly and click “Apply” and then press “OK”.

Crop: Select a cropping style in “Letter Box”, and do the offset for a precise dimension. Press “OK” to confirm.

step 4,

Setting the output format and output save path.

You can see drop-down button for “Style”, “Profile” and “Output”. Choose AVI format cause we are converting videos for Windows Movie Maker. And remember to select “AVI With DV Codec” or “Lossless Uncompressed AVI“. Not all the AVI videos can be supported by WMM. These two kinds of decoded AVI videos are friendly towords WMM.

last step,

Click the big green start button. Your video will be converted to AVI in a few minutes. Just wait till the process finish, then you can edit your videos in Windows Movie Maker now.

So that is the whole process we convert video to AVI format with Leawo Free Video Converter. There are many other free video converters online, if you got some good idea, please share with me. =]

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