Windows Movie Maker and AVI files

I have a digital camera that takes video and thought that seeing I have all these little bits of video on my computer , that I would play around with them a bit and put some of them together etc.
I have XP and notice I have Windows Movie Maker, so I open it up and read up about importing AVI files. It says it's pretty straight forward...just click File than Import and then find the one you want and away you go...it should just put a copy of the fil
e you want into 'my collection'.
And according to the properties my bits of video are AVI files, which WMM say's should work just fine.
Except every time I try I get this message....

"This file cannot be imported.
Remote files using http, ftp, and other internet protocols cannot be imported.
Please copy the files to your local disk to use with
Windows Movie Maker."

These files are already in Local Disk (C ...(what ever that is?) but I made copies and it still doesn't work.
I am going CRAZY !!!!
Please help

They well may be compressed AVI files in which case you need the correct
codec installed on your PC.

Download and install the G-Spot Codec Indentifier and find out with which
codecs they were compressed.
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Cari
MS-MVP Windows Technologies - Printing/Imaging/Hardware
www.coribright.com
"stinkie*boy" wrote in message
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I have a digital camera that takes video and thought that seeing I have all
these little bits of video on my computer , that I would play around with
them a bit and put some of them together etc.
I have XP and notice I have Windows Movie Maker, so I open it up and read
up about importing AVI files. It says it's pretty straight forward...just
click File than Import and then find the one you want and away you go...it
should just put a copy of the file you want into 'my collection'.
And according to the properties my bits of video are AVI files, which WMM
say's should work just fine.
Except every time I try I get this message....

"This file cannot be imported.
Remote files using http, ftp, and other internet protocols cannot be
imported.
Please copy the files to your local disk to use with
Windows Movie Maker."

These files are already in Local Disk (C ...(what ever that is?) but I
made copies and it still doesn't work.
I am going CRAZY !!!!
Please help

Try installing Windows Media Encoder 9 Series it worked for me

Originally Posted by stinkie*boy

I have a digital camera that takes video and thought that seeing I have all these little bits of video on my computer , that I would play around with them a bit and put some of them together etc.
I have XP and notice I have Windows Movie Maker, so I open it up and read up about importing AVI files. It says it's pretty straight forward...just click File than Import and then find the one you want and away you go...it should just put a copy of the fil
e you want into 'my collection'.
And according to the properties my bits of video are AVI files, which WMM say's should work just fine.
Except every time I try I get this message....

"This file cannot be imported.
Remote files using http, ftp, and other internet protocols cannot be imported.
Please copy the files to your local disk to use with
Windows Movie Maker."

These files are already in Local Disk (C ...(what ever that is?) but I made copies and it still doesn't work.
I am going CRAZY !!!!
Please help