MPG will not import to Windows Movie Maker - Best Solution is to Convert MPG/MPEG to WMV or AVI

Windows Movie Maker doesn't support MPG/MPEG video playback. Fortunately, there is an easy way to fix the issues. Let's find it out here!

MPEG stands for the Moving Picture Experts Group. MPEG/MPG is one of the file extensions of MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 audio and video compression. You might find it similar to MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), which is for audio compression only. MPEG format is a very popular standard for video compression for online video distribution. But the format cannot be used for Windows Movie Maker on Windows 10.

Windows Movie Maker (formerly known as Windows Live Movie Maker, codenamed Sundance) is a part of Windows Essentials software suite and offers the ability to create and edit videos. As a freeware video editing software in the Windows operating system, it has received a lot of praises. It's really a pity that can't play MPG on Windows Movie Maker, is there any solution?

Of course, to get MPG files to be imported to Windows Movie Maker, you will need to convert MPG/MPEG to Windows Movie Maker supported media formats like WMV, AVI, ASF, etc.



To convert MPG videos for Windows Movie Maker, it's undoubtedly that a video conversion program is needed. Here Brorsoft Video Converter can be a great assistant for users to finish the task. It's a great application to change MPG to Windows Movie Maker compatible video formats like WMV, AVI with no quality loss. What's more, it also supports encoding other video formats, like MKV, MOV, MTS, MXF, MP4, AVI to DNxHD for Avid Media Composer, MPEG-2 for Adobe Premiere Pro/Sony Vegas, AVI to Pinnacle Studio and more. Thus, you can simply transfer the videos to different NLEs without any video/audio problem. Now just download the app and follow the step-by-step guide to import and edit MPG files in Windows Movie Maker.



How to Convert MPG files to Windows Movie Maker Supported Media Format

Step 1. Load MPG videos to the program

Drag MPG files to the program directly. Or click "Add" button to transfer the MPG files to App.



Step 2: Choose Windows Movie Maker supported format

Hit the "Format" box and select "HD Video -->WMV HD(*.wmv)" on the dropdown menu as output format. Besides, you can also choose Divx HD(*.avi) as output if you have not installed the .wmv codec.



Step 3: Output Video/Audio settings (Optional)

Adjust video and audio parameters, including the Bitrate of Video and Audio, the Codec of Video and Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc., by clicking the Settings button on the main interface for getting the best quality before starting conversion.

Step 4. Start converting MPG files to Windows Movie Maker

When all is OK, just click the Convert button to start converting your MPG videos to Windows Movie Maker compatible files. After the conversion, find your converted video clips in the destination folder and add them to Windows Movie Maker for home movie making.

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