Kenny
Tue May 20 13:00:20 PDT 2008
For YouTube videos get Free Download Manager, it will download and convert
to a more suitable format.
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Kenny Cargill
"Saga" <antiSpam@somewhere.com> wrote in message
news:u53B5XquIHA.5288@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Download it from where?
>
> If you are talking about YouTube or similar Flash videos, you need to get
> a
> special FLV downloader or capture tool. If from You Tube, then you can go
> to
http://www.videodownloadx.com/ to download FLV. Sigh - this used to be
> a good site, but is now plagued by popup adverts, but it still does the
> job
> nicely.
>
> Other methods of download might be as simple as right clicking the video
> link and saving target as.
>
> Once you have the video on your local machine (where MovieMaker(MM) is
> installed)
> you have to look at the file type. If the file type is either AVI or WMV
> you can try
> to import it directly into MM. I suggest that you do a quick 5 minute edit
> and try to
> create the output media file. If all goes well, your original video format
> is ok. If you
> get some error, most likely you'll need to convert.
>
> If you get an error generating the output video file (for the above quick
> test) or the file
> type is not AVI or WMV then you most definitely will need to convert.
> Applications
> such as Super and Media Encoder 9 are available, but this might vary
> depending on
> the specific format of the input file.
>
> Good luck!
> Saga
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>
>
> "SOLOST" <SOLOST@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F017FE8C-8E91-4928-8691-6CE0C47550C4@microsoft.com...
>> Is there any way to download a video from the internet into the movie
>> maker?
>>
>
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