Editing WMV files

[Lemmy]

I'd like to try making freesites with video instead of pics and have run into a problem. Some of the sponsor content out there comes in huge chunks of 5 mb and more and obviously needs to be edited/compressed. The software I have (Ulead video studio) can't even open wmv files and a quick Google search tells me there aren't many programs (if any at all?) that can.

Can someone give any advice on how to edit these files

[Cleo]

You may want to use the board's search function to search for wmv and mpeg.

[GunnCat]

Use windows movie maker 2. It's free and couldn't be any easier to use.

[Lemmy]

And it's right there in XP. Never even new it was there. Thanks! :)

[Alphawolf]

For movie maker 2, it seems one must have SP2 installed? I thought I installed something like this during an update, but I have been reluctant to install SP2.

[GunnCat]

Yah I think so, can't remember the version packed with SP2 but there was some version available before that.

[Lemmy]

Originally posted by Alphawolf
For movie maker 2, it seems one must have SP2 installed? I thought I installed something like this during an update, but I have been reluctant to install SP2. I was iffy about SP2 because I had heard a lot of bad things about it, but I've had it installed for a couple of weeks now and no problems.

[Alphawolf]

OK. Thanks. I may bite the bullet and install the fucker.

[Varion]

you can download movie maker 2.0 from net. just search "mm20enu.exe" in SE :)
most of websites have link to ms site, but many ftps still have this file :)

[Alphawolf]

Well, I went ahead and installed SP2 which went without a hitch, luckily.