How to import videos from the computer into Windows Movie Maker?

Question

Please help me with this problem. I'm trying to make a AMV with Windows Movie Maker, but when I go to import and click on videos. And click on the file I want to import and a message shows up saying error or file can't be found. Can someone please tell me how to import videos in Windows Movie Maker? What type of input format does the file have to be? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

hi i make videos with windows movie maker all the time for my youtube videos  or runescape and stuff and i get this problem a lot to the thing i find to fix it is go into the start menu and serch for video of the file name then wait for it to finnish and then i click on the core file the main 1 and that usually works like dont use the icon on desk top actually use the file itself if that makes any sence at all  hope it helped

Answer 2

I tried both of these and the one that worked the best for me was the first answer. It is easy and free and you don't have to download anything!  

Answer 3

I've noticed that several common formats don't work with Windows Movie Maker.

but .wmv does for sure.

so here's what you can try....

go to this website: www.media-convert.com then, upload your video file and for the output format, select "Windows Media Video (.wmv)"