importing files.

when i try to import my video clips it says they are the wrong type. i looked and they are AVI insteade of avi. how do i change them.

There are many types of avi files, have a read of this and if it doesn't
help come back and ask again.
http://www.eicsoftware.com/PapaJohn/MM2/MM2.html
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Graham Hughes
MVP
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www.dvds2treasure.com

"luke p" <luke p@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> when i try to import my video clips it says they are the wrong type. i
looked and they are AVI insteade of avi. how do i change them.

They may be compressed AVI files in which case you must have the appropriate
codec on your PC first.

Use G-Spot Codec Identifier to find out if they do indeed use codecs for
compression and if so, which codec.

http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
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Cari
MS-MVP Windows Technologies - Printing/Imaging/Hardware
www.coribright.com

"luke p" <luke p@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> when i try to import my video clips it says they are the wrong type. i
> looked and they are AVI insteade of avi. how do i change them.

"luke p" <luke p@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> when i try to import my video clips it says they are the wrong type. i
looked and they are AVI insteade of avi. how do i change them.

You may be able to convert it with the Canopus file converter which is free:

http://www.canopus.com/US/products/...e_converter.asp

Rich