Import or copy DVD home movie to Computer

[Kahill1918]

I had an outside shop transfer old home movies from VHS to CD (or DVD-not
sure which) and am now trying to import or copy this to my Movie Maker 2 so I
can edit out some scenes. It seems the CD has a file extension of RM. How
do I do this process? All my computer does is to play the movie which I
don't want. All I want is to get it transferred to the computer itself. It
seems the instructions are for from a camera which is not the issue here.

[Andrew E.]

Try my computer,R.click the dvdrom,open,L.click the file,select copy,copy to
my documents or similiar,have M.M. search for the file to add.

"Kahill1918" wrote:

> I had an outside shop transfer old home movies from VHS to CD (or DVD-not
> sure which) and am now trying to import or copy this to my Movie Maker 2 so I
> can edit out some scenes. It seems the CD has a file extension of RM. How
> do I do this process? All my computer does is to play the movie which I
> don't want. All I want is to get it transferred to the computer itself. It
> seems the instructions are for from a camera which is not the issue here.

[Kahill1918]

Thanks. Unfortunately it did not work. I got an error message saying the
file type was not supported and therefore cannot be imported into Windows
Movie Maker. The file type is .dat.

How can I convert this into a supportable file type such as AVI, etc.? Cost
is no object.

"Kahill1918" wrote:

> I had an outside shop transfer old home movies from VHS to CD (or DVD-not
> sure which) and am now trying to import or copy this to my Movie Maker 2 so I
> can edit out some scenes. It seems the CD has a file extension of RM. How
> do I do this process? All my computer does is to play the movie which I
> don't want. All I want is to get it transferred to the computer itself. It
> seems the instructions are for from a camera which is not the issue here.

[John Inzer]

Kahill1918 wrote:
> I had an outside shop transfer old home movies from VHS to CD (or
> DVD-not sure which) and am now trying to import or copy this to my
> Movie Maker 2 so I can edit out some scenes. It seems the CD has a
> file extension of RM. How do I do this process? All my computer
> does is to play the movie which I don't want. All I want is to get
> it transferred to the computer itself. It seems the instructions are
> for from a camera which is not the issue here.
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Maybe the following links will offer some ideas:

Movie Maker 2 -
Importing Video from Discs
http://tinyurl.com/n3g2b

Editing video from a dvd
camcorder
http://tinyurl.com/rdo3k

Movie Maker 2 -
Importing MPEG Files
http://tinyurl.com/eajjh

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

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I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

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[John[_9_]]

Kahill1918 wrote:
> Thanks. Unfortunately it did not work. I got an error message saying the
> file type was not supported and therefore cannot be imported into Windows
> Movie Maker. The file type is .dat.
>
> How can I convert this into a supportable file type such as AVI, etc.? Cost
> is no object.
>
> "Kahill1918" wrote:
>
>> I had an outside shop transfer old home movies from VHS to CD (or DVD-not
>> sure which) and am now trying to import or copy this to my Movie Maker 2 so I
>> can edit out some scenes. It seems the CD has a file extension of RM. How
>> do I do this process? All my computer does is to play the movie which I
>> don't want. All I want is to get it transferred to the computer itself. It
>> seems the instructions are for from a camera which is not the issue here.

This site might help:

http://www.papajohn.org/

John.