From MediaShow to Movie Maker

I have discussed my frustration with the MediaShow software that came bundled with the Samsung SC-MX20 on this blog before so I won't get into that again. But many people are asking how to transfer videos they have edited with MediaShow to Movie Maker.

It's really very easy. (Please see the documentation on MediaShow for instructions on how to edit your videos.) If you can get MediaShow to work (I have never been able to get it to properly do anything) and have made edits to your videos, when you hit the "back" button in MediaShow, it creates a new copy of your videos in the folder you imported them into. Right-click on the new copy and choose "locate on disk".

You will see that it is still an MP4 file, but in spite of looking right in MediaShow, it still has the wide-screen and interlacing problems that it did coming out of the camera.

Using the nifty little program I created (available to the right in the downloads section) you can then repair the video that includes the edits you made in MediaShow as well as convert it to mpg format to use in Windows Movie maker.

I know that was all kind of quick and dirty, but if you need specific help, please leave a comment and I will be glad to help you.