Editing clips-Help!

Winky,_The_House_Elf

Hi I want to edit some clips that I've taken of my baby (Take out all the yawn inducing bits).

I've tried moviemaker but it comes up with an error message, even though they play fine on quick time. They are MPEG-4 Movie (.MP4) clips.

I'm using Windows Vista.

I looked on the help pages and I got totally confused with all the talk of codacs!

Is there some simply (free?) software that I can use? Or is there a straight forward solution?

Thanks

Winky x

EXIT_909

Try AVIdemux its easy to use aswell avidemux.sourceforge.net

santer_2

Is the error file format not recognised or supported, if so, you can use AVC Free to convert the files to mpeg 2 if you intend to put the files on to a DVD Disc

http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

Another option for putting them on to a disc is WinX DVD Author Free which should convert and burn those

http://www.winxdvd.com/dvd-author/

You may find avidemux suitable for editing the clips

http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/

Winky,_The_House_Elf

Thanks I'll try avidemux to edit the clips just down loading it now...Then try to convert to put on DVD later...wish me luck!

santer_2

Hope it goes well

With avidemux, you can load a clip then click file, then click save to get the option of saving the output as a set of bitmap or jpeg images, useful if you want to get the exact image for a photo, though it does produce a lot of them if the clip is large