Windows Movie Maker is a basic video editing and creating software developed by Microsoft. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie. The accepted formats for import by Windows Movie Maker are WMV, .AVI, MPG, .ASF, .WMA, .WAV, MPEG1, .mpeg, .mpg, .m1v, .mp2 and MP3.

Puzzled about how to import DVD to Windows Movie Maker for further editing? AVS Video Converter can do that job. Not only rip DVD to Windows Movie Maker acceptable videos including AVI, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, ASF, but also convert DVD to MPEG-4, MOV, AVC (H.264), MOV, 3GP, FLV, SWF, DivX, Xvid, AVI, MPEG, WMV, RM etc.

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Tutorial: How to Rip DVD to Windows Movie Maker, import DVD to Windows Movie Maker?

 Step1: Download and install AVS Video Converter

Locate your favorite DVD to the program-DVD to Windows Movie Maker.

To select a video you would like to convert hit the Browse… button next to the Input File Name field. In the opened Windows Explorer Window browse for the necessary DVD folder:

Note: when your input is a DVD Disc, you will need to select the path to your source file: X:\Video_TS\Video_TS.IFO. “X” stands for your DVD-ROM or the hard disk drive folder where your DVD is stored:

It is usually safe to select the IFO file, rather than VOB file, because the IFO file contains the information about the entire DVD structure and this way you will avoid audio and video de-synch problems when converting. Also, most DVDs have several VOB files (files with actual video) and if you convert VOBs instead of IFO, you will have to merge them afterwards, which is not the case with the IFO files.

After you have selected the VIDEO_TS.IFO file click the Advanced >> button. Normally the program will select the longest DVD title that usually corresponds to the main movie on the disc. You can check that clicking the drop-down arrow near the Video -> Track box:

Step 2: Specify output video format compatible for Windows Movie Maker like AVI.

Step 3: Click ’start’ button to start the process of ripping DVD movies to .AVI video.

Step 4: Transfer the converted video file to Windows Movie Maker