Movie Maker

[sippo]

Some students have made a video in movie maker in Vista, but at school we only have XP.

 

Is there a compatibility pack or do I just convert the file into an AVI format? What if they want to use it in school.

[sippo]

Anyone?

[riskyburden]

try here PapaJohn.org

[Jamo]

I had a look around a while back and couldn't find a converter to go back to an XP compatible format. I ended up telling the students to finalise the video in vista and bring it in as a WMV

[EvLPhenom]

I had a look around a while back and couldn't find a converter to go back to an XP compatible format. I ended up telling the students to finalise the video in vista and bring it in as a WMV

 

Thats the route we took with a couple of pupils who had the same issue. Hope this helps

[marekbrad]

Not sure if this one will do it but we use it alot and it seems to convert most formats

 

Any Video Converter Free

[sippo]

try here PapaJohn.org

 

I thought this was going to be about Pizza's!

 

Don't think its possible, so I'll explain to the students what to do. Thanks all.

[timlineuk]

I've searched high and low for this but the answer i get off almost every website is that this is not possible.

 

Thanks M$!

[riskyburden]

It’s not possible to go back from a vista moviemaker file to XP although Vista moviemaker will open an XP file (once its saved in Vista it won't go back even if it started as an XP file). There are two solutions

 

1, is to get them to finalise the project as a WMV which isn't a bad thing otherwise they'll probably forget to save the clips anyway or the links won't match for example they save it on a memory stick its likely to grab a different drive letter etc.

 

2, get them to install XP's moviemaker on their Vista machines and use that instead.

 

Hope this helps, Rich

[AIT]

Unfortunitly its not possible to go backwards or indeed forwards..