MP4 file format?

Hi,

Is there a way of importing mp4 files into movie maker? Mp4 is quite common
now so there must be a way to get round it. Maybe an update to down load or
something?

Thanks for you help.

Stuarft

John
Wed Mar 26 19:09:56 PDT 2008

Stuart wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way of importing mp4 files into movie maker? Mp4 is quite
> common now so there must be a way to get round it. Maybe an update to
> down load or something?
>
> Thanks for you help.
>
> Stuarft
==================================
Windows Movie Maker is not compatible with
.mp4 video files. You'll have to convert the file
into a compatible format, .wmv or .avi for example.

A Google search for Convert MP4 should yield
some possible conversion software.

Free online converter:

MediaConvert
http://media-convert.com/

The following trial software may be worth
a look:

Microsoft Expression Media Encoder
http://tinyurl.com/yru9f4

Here's an article form PapaJohn's Site:
Expression Media Encoder
http://tinyurl.com/yur8b9

--

John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

Stuart
Thu Mar 27 01:01:46 PDT 2008

Hi John,

Thanks for your post. The mediaconvert website doesnt convert to a
compatabile format but I'll do a search on google.

Thanks again.
Stuart

"John Inzer" <oobie@doobie.xyz> wrote in message
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> Stuart wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a way of importing mp4 files into movie maker? Mp4 is quite
>> common now so there must be a way to get round it. Maybe an update to
>> down load or something?
>>
>> Thanks for you help.
>>
>> Stuarft
> ==================================
> Windows Movie Maker is not compatible with
> .mp4 video files. You'll have to convert the file
> into a compatible format, .wmv or .avi for example.
>
> A Google search for Convert MP4 should yield
> some possible conversion software.
>
> Free online converter:
>
> MediaConvert
> http://media-convert.com/
>
> The following trial software may be worth
> a look:
>
> Microsoft Expression Media Encoder
> http://tinyurl.com/yru9f4
>
> Here's an article form PapaJohn's Site:
> Expression Media Encoder
> http://tinyurl.com/yur8b9
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
> Digital Media MVP
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk
>
>

John
Thu Mar 27 08:20:07 PDT 2008

Stuart wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for your post. The media
> convert website doesnt convert to a compatabile format
===============
Yes it does.
===============
> but I'll do a search on google.
===============
Good idea.
===============
>
> Thanks again.
> Stuart
===============
You're welcome.

I guess you did not try Microsoft
Expression Media Encoder?

--

John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

Carmen
Thu Mar 27 19:07:51 PDT 2008

On Mar 26, 7:33 pm, "Stuart" <stuart_travell...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way of importing mp4 files into movie maker? Mp4 is quite common
> now so there must be a way to get round it. Maybe an update to down load or
> something?
>
> Thanks for you help.
>
> Stuarft

Hi Stuart,

Yes, as John mentioned you'll want to convert the MP4 to either AVI or
WMV format and then import into Movie Maker. I actually did a screen
cast recently on how to incorporate an MP4 file (downloaded from
iTunes) into a PowerPoint presentation. PowerPoint can't handle MP4
files either, so I explain the process I used to convert it to WMV.
Screencast link here:
http://ipresent.net/support/tutorials/import-mpeg4/index.html

I actually used my own product to do the conversion in the
screencast. It's called Presio, which is a tool I recently released
for creating web presentations with audio/video and slides. It
captures (or imports) audio or video files as you speak to a set of
PowerPoint slides. The tool automatically synchronizes the slides
with the video and creates a professional looking webcast in either
Flash, Windows Media, Quicktime, or MP4 Video podcast formats.

It's a commercial product, but there's a free download version
available. The free version actually has decent video conversion
tools that are fully functionally. So, you convert an MP4 (or
virtually an media file type) to WMV using the free version. It's all
explained in the screen cast link above.

Anyhow, If you're interested, you can download Presio from here and
let me know if you have questions:
http://www.ipresent.net/support/presio-download.php

Good luck.

Carmen-
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iPresent Presio
http://www.ipresent.net