subject: How To Put Dvd Into Windows Movie Maker Project? [print this page] If you are fond of some video clips from a DVD movie and want to add it to the slideshow you are making with your Windows Movie Maker, you may get into the trouble that the DVD format is incompatible with Windows Movie Maker. The following step by step tutorial may help you out of the headache.
Before getting started, lets know something about DVD and Windows Movie Maker.
General DVDs have CSS copy protection in MPEG-2 or VOB format.
Windows Movie Maker is a totally free program that comes with Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional, and Windows Vista (also called Windows DVD Maker). Windows Windows Movie Maker supports WMV, AVI and MPG video files.
To put DVD movie clips into Windows Movie Maker, you need to convert your DVD to WMV or AVI video first, and then load it into your Windows Movie Maker project. Id prefer using Xilisoft DVD Ripper to do this.
Click Open DVD button, select a DVD (or DVD Folder, ISO file, IFO file) in the dialog box that opens, and load it. The Loaded DVDs information, such as chapter, title, etc., will be shown in the file list.
Note:This DVD Ripper can rip copyright protected DVD movies, but you should remember it is illegal to rip DVD for any business purpose.
Step 2. Choose output format/subtitle/audio track, trim the movie
After you load the DVD files, click the Profile drop-down list to select WMV Windows Media Video (*.wmv) or AVI Audio Video Interleaved (*.avi) as the output format.
A regular DVD movie has multiple Subtitles and Audio Tracks. This DVD Ripper allows you to select any available subtitle and audio track to convert to the specific video/audio format you need.
If you just want a certain part of the DVD movie, you can click the Clip button to cut the DVD movie. You can drag the timeline bar to set the start and end time point or simply input the Start Time and End Time to get the segment you want to convert and output. Click the New Clip to get more segments if you need.
Tips:
Segment list displays all segments that are needed to output, including the start time, end time and length.
Check Output segments as whole one option to merge the segments in the list into one video to output.
Step 3. Start to convert
After the above steps, you just need to click the Apply button and wait for the conversion to be finished. This DVD Ripper provides the fastest conversion speed (>500%) and fully supports dual core CPU.
Step 4. Import the output video into Windows Movie Maker
Run Windows Movie Maker. Tn the Movie Task bar, click Add Video to browse your computer and locate and import the converted files. Then you can start to make personal movies.
Tip: Many users may wonder how they can convert Windows Movie Maker file (*.MSWMM) to other video format or burn MSWMM to DVD. A *.MSWMM is a project file of Windows Movie Maker; it is not a video file (more like a record file). You can open *.MSWMM file in Windows Movie Maker (click File -> Open Project Project) and save the movie to your computer: go to the Tasks bar, click Finish Movie and then click Save to my computer.
