Help with windows movie maker

[Oogly50]

I'm just trying to make a random assortment of pictures for my battlefield 2 game, because it's a super fun game, and I'm almost done... all I need is music.

However, when I go to select my songs from iTunes, none of them are there. I can get album names, artist names, but no song names...  How do I import them?

Also, I tried taking some videos off the internet, but I don't know how to download them.  All I need to do is get them to the desktop and I'll be set, but I can't get them there...  Any help here?

[Ripsnort]

It's been years since I used that software, but if memory serves me, it likes WMA files (or was it MP3 files?) Either way, it doesn't like the format of music that your Itunes are in.

[Rich46yo]

Originally posted by Oogly50
I'm just trying to make a random assortment of pictures for my battlefield 2 game, because it's a super fun game, and I'm almost done... all I need is music.

However, when I go to select my songs from iTunes, none of them are there. I can get album names, artist names, but no song names...  How do I import them?

Also, I tried taking some videos off the internet, but I don't know how to download them.  All I need to do is get them to the desktop and I'll be set, but I can't get them there...  Any help here?

                     My guess is that windows movie maker doesnt support whatever compression is used for the ITunes music. Your probably going to have to rip songs off a CD and save them as a .wav file before movie makers allows you to insert them on the timeline. That or Itunes has some Policy that doesnt allow 3rd users of their music and have some code built in that you have to be online with them to listen to the music.

                   As for downloading videos, if they are downloadable, you should be able to right click them and "save as". Again you might only be able to save them as a WMV and its possible movie maker doesnt support that so your going to have to have software that can recompress it into an AVI or MPEG. I suggest if your going to be working with video that you create a separate "capture" folder in your C drive for video. Best of all would be a separate video only hard drive.

                I wouldnt want to load up the desktop to much with video files.

[eskimo2]

From WMM Help:

Import video files, pictures, and audio into Windows Movie Maker

You can import files with the following file name extensions into Windows Movie Maker to use in your project:

Video files: .asf, .avi, .m1v, .mp2, .mp2v, .mpe, .mpeg, .mpg, .mpv2, .wm, and .wmv

Audio files: .aif, .aifc, .aiff .asf, .au, .mp2, .mp3, .mpa, .snd, .wav, and .wma

Picture files: .bmp, .dib, .emf, .gif, .jfif, .jpe, .jpeg, .jpg, .png, .tif, .tiff, and .wmf


I've never use itunes, but I found this:

File format support

iTunes 7 can currently read, write, and convert between MP3, AIFF, WAV, MPEG-4, AAC, and Apple Lossless.

iTunes can also play any audio files that QuickTime can play (as well as some video formats), including Protected AAC files from the iTunes Store and Audible.com audio books. In order to play other formats such as the Ogg and FLAC-contained Vorbis or Speex codecs, iTunes requires the Xiph QuickTime Components to be installed. iTunes currently will not play back HE-AAC/aacPlus audio streams correctly. HE-AAC/aacPlus format files will play back as 22 kHz AAC files (effectively having no high end over 11 kHz). HE-AAC streaming audio (which a number of Internet Radio stations use) will not play back at all.