Running Microsoft’s Windows Movie Maker in Windows 7 can be a daunting task, because it is not available on Windows 7 by default, just like it has been available on Windows XP, and Windows Vista; here’s a guide to run Microsoft’s Windows Movie Maker on Windows 7 and Windows Vista.

Windows Movie Maker for Windows 7

Microsoft recommends downloading the latest Windows Live Suite, which includes Windows Live Movie Maker (WLMM) for Windows 7.

Experienced users will want to continue with what they’ve become accustomed to, but Microsoft has turned deaf regarding requests for integrating Windows Movie Maker in Windows 7.

However, it is noteworthy that special Vista edition MM2.6 is found to download, install, and work perfectly fine for Windows 7 Operating System as well.

How to Import Videos With Windows Movie Maker in Windows 7?

Apart from latest version of Windows Movie Maker, the Windows Live Suite also presents you with a video import wizard for connecting Digital Camcorder or mini-DV via firewire.

More so, MM1 and MM2.1 can also capture video in Windows 7 from my mini-DV camcorder via firewire.

Imported video clips can be found in Windows Live Photo Gallery or inserted into collections of the classic versions of the Windows Movie Maker.

Running Multiple Versions of Windows Movie Maker in Windows 7 or Windows Vista 

Basically installing Windows Movie Maker in Windows Vista is pretty much straightforward, and we’ve seen what it takes to actually run Windows Movie Maker on Windows 7 Operating System.

However, it is even possible to run multiple versions of Windows Movie Maker in Windows 7 too.

In a Nutshell

Windows Movie Maker has been one of the hot favorites amongst the digital video editing apps. Running Microsoft Windows Movie Maker in Windows 7 may not be pretty easy, and there are a number of other software available for the advanced level users.

How to convert AVCHD to Windows Movie Maker avi/wmv/mpg(HD) video for Windows XP,Vista and 7?

Recently you are confused with your new high definition Canon HF100 camcorder that saves natively to AVCHD. You really love the camcorder but are wondering if you still be able to edit it with the built-in Windows Movie Maker.

Actual AVCHD (.mts/m2ts/ts) is a format popularized by hard disk camcorders from Sony, Panasonic, and Canon, uses h.264 video coupled with AAC audio for recording movies. Neither of these two codecs is directly supported by Windows Movie Maker on Windows OS.

What you should do first is try to determine what software, if any, comes supplied with the Camcorder, and whether said software as import facilities that allow the video to be imported into Windows Movie Maker for editing. AVCHD conversion in Window movie maker can be one of the option.

If it doesn’t work fine for some reason, more than likely you’ll need to install AVCHD to Windows Movie Maker converter. This equips with a powerful decoder for the native AVCHD files off the camcorder and successes in allowing you to convert AVCHD files to an editable format like HD AVI (best format I strongly recommend you convert your AVCHD videos to), HD MPEG-2 or HD WMV that works well with any version of Movie Maker.

Windows Movie maker supports .asf, .avi, .m1v, .mp2, .mp2v, .mpe, .mpeg, .mpg, .mpv2, .wm, .wmv, of the options I list, HD AVI and HD MPEG-2 are the two I use regularly as output formats of AVCHD video converter and prefer over other options, for WMV format sometimes have no sound in Windows Movie Maker.

With AVCHD to Windows Movie Maker converter installed it’s a simple case of converting Sony/Panasonic/Canon/JVC AVCHD files to HD AVI, HD MPEG-2 or HD WMV for using in Movie Maker, import AVCHD to Movie Maker, transfer AVCHD files to Movie Maker, edit avchd, m2ts in movie maker on Windows XP,Vista and 7.

AVCHD to Windows Movie Maker converter software also can convert Sony/Panasonic/Canon/JVC AVCHD files to AVI, MOV, MP4, FLV, M4V, SWF, DV, RM, RMVB, 3GP etc and extract audio clips from AVCHD videos and store them as MP3, AAC, AC3, AMR, M4A, MKA etc.

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Camcorder is a must-have digital equipment in the modern life. You could shoot splendid moments when attending to friends’ party, go out for a travel, or record kids’ fun activities when they are young, etc. AVCHD Video Converter is a perfect camcorder mate when you are in need of transferring video files from camcorder to computer. It can handle almost all High Definition videos files from camcorders like the JVC GZ-HD10U, the Sony HDR-SR1, the Canon HF S100 (SDHC) and the Panasonic HDC SD9, Flip video mino HD, etc.

AVCHD  Converter is a powerful program for Sony, Panasonic, JVC and Hitachi camcorder users to convert the video types: MTS and M2TS movie files. AVCHD Video Converter offers a brilliant solution to convert .mts, .m2ts file from Sony, Panasonic, Canon, JVC, Hitachi camcorders to Windows Media files, like avi, wmv, mpeg, asf, mp3, wma, and further import into Windows Movie Maker for editing.

Further more, the AVCHD  Converter allows you to convert MTS/M2TS files to various personal portable devices supported video types, like iPod MP4, iPhone MP4, Apple TV MP4, PSP MP4, Zune MP4, WMV, BlackBerry AVI, 3GP, WMV, MP4, Gphone MP4, Creative Zen AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, iRiver AVI, WMV, etc.

How to convert AVCHD(.mts, .m2ts) files to avi, wmv, mpeg, mp3 for Windows Movie Maker?

Free download and install AVCHD Converter

Step 1: Add AVCHD files
Click Add File(s) button on the toolbar, select video files you want to convert in the dialog box that opens, and add them to the file list.

Step 2: Select output format
Choose one or more files in the file list, and open Profile drop-down list, then select an output format that you want to convert to, AVI, WMV, ASF, MPEG-1 is supported by Windows Movie Maker.

Tip: To adjust the output settings, click Settings button next to Profile drop-down list, and set the parameters of output format in the Advanced Profile Settings dialog box that opens.

Step 3: Set output folder
Click Browse button in setting panel, select a destination folder in the dialog box that opens, and click OK.
Tip:Before start to convert video, you can clip video segment, crop area size, add effects, and create video watermark to colorize your output file.

Step 4: Convert AVCHD files
Click Convert Checked Item(s) button on the toolbar to convert AVCHD(.mts, .m2ts) to specific video that you set in Step 2. You can view the conversion progress from the progress bar at the bottom of the window on AVCHD Converter

Step 5: Import into WMM
After conversion, now you can import the new videos in .avi, .wmv, .mpg, .asf, .mp3 extension to Windows Movie Maker for editing

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First To Know: 1. Windows Movie Maker supports editing WMV, AVI and MPG video files. 2. Mac – iMovie imports MOV and MPEG4 video files. 3. JVC TOD Camcorders – GZ-HD7 (HDD, SD/SDHC card), GZ-HD3, GZ-HD5, GZ-HD6, GZ-HD30, GZ-HD40 (HDD, MicroSDHC card, dual TOD and AVCHD recording) shoot video of high definition . TOD format. 4. Canon MOD Camcorders – FS100 (SDHC), FS10 , FS11, FS200, FS21, FS22 shoot video in formats of . MOD 5. Panasonic MOD camcorders – SV-AV100 (SD card), SDR-S100, SDR-S150 (SD/SDHC card), SDR-S10, SDR-H18 (HDD, SD card), SDR-H200 (HDD, SD/SDHC card), SDR-H20, SDR-H60, SDR-S7, SDR-SW20, SDR-SW21shoot video in formats of . MOD. 6. JVC MOD camcorders – GZ-MC100 (SD), GZ-MC200, GZ-MG30 (HDD), GZ-MG70, GZ-MG37, GZ-MG77, GZ-MG505 (HDD, SD/SDHC card), GZ-MG130 (HDD), GZ-MG155, GZ-MG255, GZ-MG555, GZ-MS100U, GZ-MG7230 (30 GB HDD, MicroSD), GZ-MG630 (60 GB HDD, MicroSD), GZ-MG670 (80 GB HDD, MicroSD), GZ-MG680 (120 GB HDD, MicroSD) shoot video in formats of . MOD. To edit . MOD or . TOD file in Windows Movie Maker First you have to transfer file formats to Windows Movie Maker compatible WMV, AVI or MPG, (generally . WMV is preferred)this Video Converter Pro is an ideal choice as it can rip DVD, convert all kinds of audio & video files. The conversion process is as easy as:1. Free download > install > run > add source files (both video and DVD supported) 2. Preset output profile including: output format, video quality, picture effect, you can also trim, cut, merge and batch convert multiple files. 3. When presettings finished, hit “start” to convert, then done. It is a auto-finished process, what you need to do is only a few mouse clicks. Then run Windows Movie Maker, in the “Movie Task” section, click “Add Video” to browse your computer and load the converted files, and then start to make your own movie as the following picture shows:NOTE: Many folks ask how to convert Windows Movie Maker file (*. MSWMM) to other video format, while actually . MSWMM file is not a video format. It is a temporary project file of Movie Maker (more like a record file). Just open this file in Windows Movie Maker and save it to your computer — Go to Movie Tasks bar > Finish Movie > Save to my computer. Then you will have a WMV file which can be converted to another video format or burned to DVD. To edit AVCHD(. m2ts) or . DV file in Windows Movie Maker You can use this tailor-made All Media Converter as it supports converting all kinds of music video movie like HD(. m2ts; . tp; . trp; . ts), HD(. mp4; . wmv; . asf; . mpg; . vob; . mov; avi), DV, NSV, NUT, RM, RMVB, M4P, M4B, M4V, WMV, ASF, WMA, MP4, M4A, AVI (Divx/Xvid), MOV, 3GP, 3G2, CD. dat, DVD. vob, h. 264, FLV, FLAC, AIFF, SWF, MPG, MP3, AC3, OGG, APE, AAC, WAV, MKV, MKA, etc. Conversion process and editing are simple and easy as the above steps. For Mac users — To edit . MOD . TOD AVCHD(. m2ts) or . DV file with iMovie What you need to do is to make sure converting source video or DVD to right formats for iMovie— . mov or . mp4 is OK. This Mac iMedia Converter dose the job perfect, the conversion process is same as for Windows. When conversion completes, run the iMovie, build a new project, and then drag the converted files to the work space to make personal files. When editing job is finished, in the Menu bar, Click “File” -> “Export” and save it as QuickTime video, then you can convert it to other video format or burn it to DVD.