How to Edit Fraps Videos in Windows Movie Maker Smoothly

"I recently frapsed some stuff I wanted to edit in MovieMaker, but when I import it to MM and try to test it, the timer runs but the actual video doesn't want to play. When I tried to run it in Windows MediaPlayer I get one still image, while the timer runs like its actually playing the movie. The fraps files are not broken since I can play them fine in VLC player. The files are supposed to in .avi format which should work fine in MM. I would really appreciate if someone could tell me how to get MM co-operate with these files..."

Fraps is an excellent game video capture tool with amazing video quality and easy operation, making it available for various levels of users whether you are a newbie or professional. Nowadays more and more game players love to use it to record gaming footage and it's said that the recorded video from Fraps is in a lossless compression format .avi. Though as popular as it being, if you want to "polish" them with some editing software like Windows Movie Maker, things would be a bit tricky and you may unfortunate to encounter the similar problem as above.

In fact, the .avi video file captured by Fraps, which is a container rather than a format. The video and audio inside container might be made up of any other codecs ... perhaps the codec needed to play the file properly isn't installed on your Windows. To fix these problems, the easy and quick workaround is to transcode the Fraps AVI to a format that's easier to edit in Windows Movie Maker like WMV.

Here Brorsoft Video Converter is your best choice for encoding Fraps AVI videos to Windows Movie Maker. It supports creating high quality WMV video for your Windows Movie Maker, no matter what's the format of your source video files. It can convert almost any video to WMV so you can import your video to Windows Movie Maker for editing. Plus, it comes with all regular video editing tools like Trim, Crop, Effect, Subtitle, Watermark. For basic video editing tasks, you can even replace your Windows Movie Maker with it. Just download the program and follow the step-by-step guide below to start transcoding Fraps AVI to WMV in details.

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Steps to Convert and Import Fraps video to Windows Movie Maker

Step 1: Import Fraps files

First of all, locate your local Fraps AVI files and then drag them directly onto this program's conversion pane. All uploaded files will then be displayed on the interface as shown in the screenshot below. The other method you can use to add files is to click "Add Video" button to import the AVI files.

Step 2. Choose output format

This video converter offers optimized format preset for Windows Movie Maker. Just click "Format" menu firstly and then follow "HD Video" to set WMV HD(*.wmv) format.

Tip: If the default settings do not fit you requirement, you can click "Settings" icon to and enter "Profile Settings" panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels.

Step 3. Start converting Fraps video to Windows Movie Maker

Click "Convert" button to start converting Fraps video for Windows Movie Maker program.

Once the conversion is finished you can click "Open" button to get the output files effortlessly, and now you are ready to import and edit Fraps files with Windows Movie Maker. Just import the converted files to Windows Movie Maker for editing via its "Import video" option.