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Microsoft has released Windows Live Movie Maker on August 19, 2009 as part of a refresh to their Windows Live Essentials download. Windows Live Movie Maker is the first application designed for Windows 7 and is built to make beautiful movies from your photos and videos.

While you are trying it out, you may encounter a problem like 3GP files can't be added to Windows Live Movie Maker. Or it can't be played in Window Live Movie Maker. And many other video files as well, such as RM, RMVB, DAT and HD video formats: MTS, TS, HD MKV, HD WMV, and HD MOV, etc. It's quite necessary to get familiar with what all those files that could be imported to Windows Live Movie Maker.

Here are the types of file from www.help.live.com which are compatible with Windows Live Movie Maker; you can add the following types of video, photo, and audio files to Windows Live Movie Maker.

Supported file types in Windows Live Movie Maker
Video file types (format)	File name extensions
Windows Media Video (WMV) files	.WMV
Windows Media files	.ASF and .WM
AVCHD files	.M2TS and .M2T
Apple QuickTime files	.MOV and .QT
DV-AVI files	.AVI
Microsoft Recorded TV Show files	.DVR-MS and .WTV
MPEG-4 movie files	.MP4, .MOV, and .M4V
MPEG-2 movie files	.MPEG, .MPG, .MPE, .M1V, .MP2, .MPV2, .MOD, and .VOB
MPEG-1 movie files	.M1V
Motion JPEG files	.AVI and .MOV
Photo file types (format)	File name extensions
Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) files	.JPG and .JPEG
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files	.TIF and .TIFF
Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) files	.GIF
Bitmap files	.BMP
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) files	.PNG
HD Photo files	.WDP
Audio file types (format)	File name extensions
Windows Media Audio (WMA) files	.ASF, .WM, and .WMA
Pulse-code Modulation (PCM) audio files	.AIF, .AIFF, and .WAV
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) audio files	.M4A
MP3 audio files	.MP3

Notes:

• Video and music files that are protected with digital rights management (DRM) can't be used in Windows Live Movie Maker.
• Support for using MPEG-2 and Microsoft Recorded TV Show video files in your movie is available only if your computer is running one of the following editions of Windows Vista or Windows 7: Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise, or Windows 7 Ultimate.

• AVCHD video files that contain Dolby Digital audio can be used in Windows Live Movie Maker if your computer is running one of the following editions of Windows 7: Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise, or Windows 7 Ultimate.
• MPEG-4 video files that contain AAC audio can be used if you're using Movie Maker on a computer running Windows 7.
• Some MPEG-4 video files can be used when you're using Movie Maker on a computer running Windows Vista if the necessary audio and video codecs are installed.

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