AVI files and Windows Movie Maker 2010

[jaosals42]

I'm trying to import some videos of gameplay I've recorded into Windows Movie Maker 2010, all of which are AVI format files. However, when I import into the program, I get 7 second long clips without sound or video. In attempting to fix it, I get an error that says the following: "This file is corrupted or in a format that Movie Maker does not recognize," followed by a 0xC946001C error. In order to save or export the file, I have to remove these clips, which refuse to be fixed. In a bit of research, I downloaded several codec packs that include codecs for AVI files, but none of them have worked. The video files are fairly large too, (over half a gigabyte on average), so I don't know if there are any free trial video converters that would like to converter video formats of movies that size.

 

Help please? I'm using Windows 7 32 bit Home Edition.

[ryan605]

Try iCoolsoft total video converter. Edited June 26, 2012 by ryan605

[JimboUK]

Use something like this to convert them to WMV http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Format-Factory

[Sentaba]

You can try hd video converter that allow you to convert most all of the formats such as convert mp4 to avi http://www.videoconverterfactory.com/tips/mp4-to-avi.html and compress the files without damaging quality. I recommend that you convert AVI to WMV. In general, Windows movie maker supports videos like ASF, AVI, WMV. If your AVI video can't be recognized by the Windows movie maker, the possible reason is that there is something damaged and you need to download a plug-in.

Edited April 20, 2017 by Sentaba

[niphilim222]

Freestudio is another good encoder, it does pretty much everything.

 

https://www.dvdvideosoft.com/free-dvd-video-software.htm

[Fatalmasterpiece]

Wwindows Movie Maker generally breaks all the time for me. I finally gave up on it for editing videos. Try out Hitfilm 4 Express. It's free and much better.