[ WMM ] File types.

I was unsure whether to post this in the technology section, or here. Because it's both a technical question, and sort of a homework question. Simply put: My friend and I have filmed a short film for class on his camera, uploaded all of the scenes onto my laptop, and now I need to compile all of them together on Windows Movie Maker. All of the file types are .AVI, and for some reason when I try to put them in the timeline, they just show up as a black screen and the audio only. How do I get it so that it shows the video AND audio?

WMM is annoying that way. Do you know what video codec you're using?

Originally Posted by GDwarf

WMM is annoying that way. Do you know what video codec you're using?

A "Flip Video". Plugs right into the computer.

Ah, no, that's a camcorder.

A video codec is something like DivX, software that lets your computer read different video types. Normally you need a separate codec for most video types, though Windows ships with quite a few.

The thing is, for some reason the one that ships with Windows for .avi files doesn't always play nice with WMM, so you may have to use a different one (which, odds are, will not alway splay nice with WMM, unfortunately.)


At least, that's my best guess based on my sister's multi-year struggle to get WMM to do anything with .avi files.


So, what I'd try doing is downloading the DivX codec and seeing if installing that makes things work.