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MPEG4 camcorder but windows movie maker doesn't recognise MP4 format!

I have a Sony MP4 camcorder, I am able to drop and drag the files from the camcorder to my pc but I only have windows movie maker which doesn't recognise MP4 format. Can anyone suggest a free/cheap video editing software download/package which DOES recognise MP4 format so I can edit my video clips, perhaps add soundtrack for example - and then burn onto DVD? Thanks

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  • vyseyboy
    vyseyboy Posts: 624 Forumite
    Directly editing MP4 is a bad idea. The normal procedure would be to re-encode the video to raw uncompressed avi (big files, but perfectly editable,) then use whatever editing suite, then re-encode at the end to whatever format (Mp4 for portability, mpeg2 for DVD's etc.)

    VirtualDub is commonly used for re-encoding to-from compressed formats, but it's not the simplest bit of software ever. I can't find one straight away, but there's probably a howto for this sort of thing floating about.
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  • Donnie
    Donnie Posts: 9,862 Forumite
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