Converting H.264

[DCSwish23]

I have footage from a GoPro Hero (MP4 H.264) that I'm trying to convert to anything that I can edit (AVI or WMV are what I have been trying to use). Using RAD Video tools it just keeps making a blank file and not actually converting it. I tried downloading another free converter (Movavi 10) but that crashes every time I even try to load a file. If anyone has 1. A way to convert them or 2. A editing program that doesn't need to convert them (or is better than Microsoft Movie Maker) please let me know.

Cheers

[Baldrick]

mp4cam2avi.

[DCSwish23]

Thanks, that worked. But now I'm running into the problem that movie maker recognizes it as an audio file and wont get the video even though I can watch the avi video.

[poisondeathray]

what kind of editing ?

you should be able to do simple cuts type editing directly on the native file in avidemux

[budwzr]

Try Sony Vegas Movie Studio. It supports the GoPro format. I got a Gopro a couple weeks ago myself, great little videocam.

Vegas also accepts image sequences too, in case you want to use the picture every X seconds feature on the GoPro.

[Bjs]

Movie maker dosent understand h.264 encoded files ... and rad video tools is the wrong program.

Should check out Baldrick's guide while it's still on the main page > thread 331848 using Freemake Video Converter

[DCSwish23]

I'm looking to edit to cut out the boring parts mostly. Add captions ocasionally, add stills here and there. Looks like vegas should work well for what I want. Thanks