Video clips from my camera

[Guest]

Hi, I'm pretty new at this, but I realize now that my Media Player 2 doesn't
allow me to use video clips that I have taken with my digital camera. Is
there anything I can do that will allow me to use these clips on my Media
Player 2? I have a digital camera that has a movie clip option, and all of
my files are already in my computer. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Sorry, I want to use them with my Windows Movie Maker 2, not my Media Player.

 

[decoder]

Sorry, I want to use them with my Windows Movie Maker 2, not my Media
Player.

Windows Movie maker is extremely fussy about file types it will work with.
The safest option is DV-AVI, or WMV file formats. (Not mpegs, nor RM, nor
quicktime)
You have a "digital camera"? I suspect this to be a standard digi-cam that
apart from
taking pix, also captures video footage? If so, it will probably be in a
propriatary
format that is neither DV-AVI nor WMV, you need software that converts.
Post back details of the file format your cam produces.
(Your cam may have come supplied with such conversion software?)

 

[Guest]

Thanks for responding. You're right about the camera, it's an Olympus
Camedia 5.1. I figured that the video clips must be in the wrong format. I
can use my pictures from the same camera in my Movie Maker 2, and I can use
some of my music, but I can't use all of my music, or any of my video clips.

 

[Trevor L.]

Thanks for responding. You're right about the camera, it's an Olympus
Camedia 5.1. I figured that the video clips must be in the wrong
format. I can use my pictures from the same camera in my Movie Maker
2, and I can use some of my music, but I can't use all of my music,
or any of my video clips.

Is your "digital camera" bascaily a still camera with the facility to also
take video?

If so, the most likely format is .mov which plays with Quicktime available
from Apple ( Microsoft compatible)

 

[Guest]

Yeah, that's the format, but can I change it, so that I can use it with my
Movie Maker 2, and if so, where can I get the program to do it? Thanks for
your response.

 

[Trevor L.]

Yeah, that's the format, but can I change it, so that I can use it
with my Movie Maker 2, and if so, where can I get the program to do
it? Thanks for your response.

OK that's a starting point for me.

I am not very knowledgeable on video formats/conversion, etc. (I wish I
were, which is why I haunt this newsgroup from time to time.)
But I did manage to convert a .mov file to .avi using RAD video tools and it
plays in Windows Media Player. (I don't know about WMM2.)

I would have thought that this format should be compatible with (or
convertible to a format that is compatible with) most players but, as I
said, I am quite in the dark.

As for where to get RAD Video Tools?

It is free, but I can't remember where from. The "About" gives the website
www.radgametools.com
Possibly I downloaded the first one: Bink Video

ON my PC it installed as
C:\Program Files\RADVideo\
bink.exe
binkconv.exe
binkmake.dll
binkmix.exe
binkplay.exe
changes.html
INSTALL.LOG
Nicky Pages' Digital Solutions.htm
RAD Video Tools Help.htm
rad2exe.exe
radana.exe
radbatch.exe
radinfo.exe
radsiw.exe
radutil.dll
radvideo.exe
reference.css
smack.exe
smackmix.exe
smackplw.exe
smackply.exe
smackpw6.exe
UNWISE.EXE

The executable is radvideo.exe

 

[Guest]

Thanks, I'll give it try. Peace out.

OK that's a starting point for me.

I am not very knowledgeable on video formats/conversion, etc. (I wish I
were, which is why I haunt this newsgroup from time to time.)
But I did manage to convert a .mov file to .avi using RAD video tools and it
plays in Windows Media Player. (I don't know about WMM2.)

I would have thought that this format should be compatible with (or
convertible to a format that is compatible with) most players but, as I
said, I am quite in the dark.

As for where to get RAD Video Tools?

It is free, but I can't remember where from. The "About" gives the website
www.radgametools.com
Possibly I downloaded the first one: Bink Video

ON my PC it installed as
C:\Program Files\RADVideo\
bink.exe
binkconv.exe
binkmake.dll
binkmix.exe
binkplay.exe
changes.html
INSTALL.LOG
Nicky Pages' Digital Solutions.htm
RAD Video Tools Help.htm
rad2exe.exe
radana.exe
radbatch.exe
radinfo.exe
radsiw.exe
radutil.dll
radvideo.exe
reference.css
smack.exe
smackmix.exe
smackplw.exe
smackply.exe
smackpw6.exe
UNWISE.EXE

The executable is radvideo.exe

 

[decoder]

http://www.videohelp.com/mov2avi.htm