WMV to AVI

Twabi2 · Post by **Twabi2** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 7:45 pm

ok guys (girls?), i have problems...
i made a movie with a friends cam, he imported it into his computer and burned it on a cd... AS WMV!!!
Now, i can't get premiere 6.5 to accept WMV, so i want a program to convert to AVI

i already tried multiple software-packages... Some of them crash, some of them don't add sound, some of them add watermarks,...
Does anyone now a free convertor?
or a good convertor (but nut too exspensive)?
Or a method to import WMV into premiere

Thx
P.s.: i need this for school, so reply, even f you're not sure, i need this before monday!

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 8:11 pm

Easy, if you have windows XP...

Download "Windows Movie Maker 2" from the Microsoft website, and you'll be able to import WMV and then export it back to AVI.

Premiere 6.5 is a bit funny with the AVI's created in Movie Maker so you might have to export the WMV to your DV camera and then re-capture it in Premiere.

Twabi2 · Post by **Twabi2** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 8:28 pm

problem is, i don't have a DV cam...
i already have moviemaker 2, i'll try it.
Thx!

_EDIT_
Hmm, the movie is splitted into 2 pieces
i can covert the 2nd piece perfectly, but the first piece seem to crash every program

i can play i though in WMP
any ideas? i can't capture the footage again, neither can i transfer it again from the cam...
Any help is welcome!!!

Oh, BTW, Thx ornsack!!

[Edited on 21/11/2003 by Twabi2]

Twabi2 · Post by **Twabi2** » Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:54 pm

ok, the 1st piece has a "bad sector".
there a scene of about 15 seconds that's damaged. I can discard that scene, but not all scenes of the 1st piece
I can play the movie, untill the damaged scene. All the scenes after the damaged scenes are playable too... If i don't reach the damaged part, the programmed doesn't crash, if i do reach it, it crashes... But i can forward, past the damaged piece.
Is there any way to recover all these scenes?
I thought of recording while playing, but i tried it with "snagit", and i have the "video-layer-effect" (you only see black, something from microsoft against ripping).

film fanatic · Post by **film fanatic** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 7:45 pm

here you go... hope it's ok for you

http://download.com.com/3001-2194-10205771.html

Twabi2 · Post by **Twabi2** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 10:08 pm

I already tried that, but i have fixed it now
I downloaded a patch so i could import wmv into premier. Then i had to find the bad piece (premiere crashed when i found it

), but now, it's cut out..
Seems like the CD is damaged, because i can't even copy the file to my HD