My Sony handy cam videos will not play on movie maker.?

Question

My sony handy cam 30gb (hdd) videos do come on to the pc an play but when i put them into movie maker the video is just a black screen i have not put the software for the cam in because i have lost it! Help!

Answer 1

Your camcorder is recording the video in MPEG-2, a format that WMM has problems with.  Your options are to either convert the video to WMV using something like Super (it's free, so it'll cost nothing to try it) or buying an editor that can handle MPEG-2.  Most commercial video editors can do it, so you've a lot of choice!