Tutorial to Import the DVD to Windows Movie Maker

Case 1:
I am going to make a highlight film for my football team and I have all the game films on DVD. Now, how do you import the film from DVD to Windows Movie Maker?

Case 2:
I want to make video clips using my personal DVD then upload to Youtube. But when I imported DVD to Windows Movie Maker, Movie Maker didn't recognize the DVD. Any idea?

If you like a DVD clip and want to import DVD 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, just like the above cases show. Then is there any solution to easily import DVD to Windows Movie Maker?

What is Windows Movie Maker?
Windows Movie Maker is a free program which is built in Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista. It accepts the following media formats:

Video files: ASF, AVI, WMV
Movie files: MPEG-1, MPEG-4, MPG, M1V, MP2
Audio files: WAV, SND, AU, AIF, AIFC, AIFF
Windows media files: ASF, WM, WMA, WMV
MP3 format audio: MP3

To import a DVD clip to Windows Movie Maker, you need to convert the DVD to Windows Movie Maker compatible format first. We've learnt that Windows Movie Maker supports video files in ASF, AVI, WMV formats and AVI & WMV formats are more commonly used.

WinX Free DVD Ripper is free yet excellent DVD ripper software which offers the functions to convert DVD movie to Windows Movie Maker compatible AVI and WMV video formats. The following tutorial will take this program for example to introduce the steps to convert DVD to AVI / WMV and after that you can import the DVD to Windows Movie Maker.

Step 1: Add DVD Movies.
On the main interface, click "DVD Disc" to add DVD from DVD drive. Or you can click "DVD path" to import DVD from DVD folder saved on your computer.

Step 2 Trim the Video
Generally, you would not import the whole DVD movie into the Windows Movie Maker project. So you can drag the handle of the bar under the video preview windows to get the certain segment of the DVD movie.

Tip: You can also specify the "Start Time" and "End time" in the output setting area to trim the video.

Step 3: Specify the Output Format
Click "to AVI" or “to WMV” button, the DVD movie will be converted to AVI or WMV video file.

Tip: For advanced users, you can set the detailed parameters of output format in the parameter setting area to control video quality, image size, etc.

Step 4 Start Conversion
Click "Browse" to select the destination folder to save output video and click "Start", the program will start to convert the DVD to AVI/WMV.
After that, you can import the DVD movie (actually AVI or WMV file) into your Windows Movie Maker.

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