As an ideal free video editing, Windows Movie Maker is widely used yb video hobbyists. You may want to import DVD to Windows Movie Maker to edit the movies. However, Windows Movie Maker doesn't support DVD format. To add DVD movies to Windows Movie Maker, you'll need to convert DVD files to WMM compatible video format.

As we all know, Windows Movie Maker supports a wide variety of video formats, including AVI, WMV, ASF, MPEG, etc. To import a DVD clip into Windows Movie Maker, you just need to convert DVD to WMM compatible WMV or AVI first. To do that, a DVD converter is needed. Here EaseFab DVD Ripper for Windows (Windows 8 compatible) is strongly recommended to extract video clips that are compatible with Windows Movie Maker from any DVDs. After the conversion, you can add the video files to Windows Movie Maker without hassle. Now download this program and follow the guide below to complete your task.

How to convert DVD to Windows Movie Maker supported video format

Step 1. Load DVD movies

Insert the DVD disc into your computer's DVD drive, run the DVD converter and click Load DVD to import the DVD movies (DVD, ISO files or IFO files). Or you can simply locate the DVD files and drag them to the program window to load them. After DVD has been loaded, you can select subtitles, choose audio tracks, preview DVD and take snapshots as you like.

Tips: You can either convert all the DVD titles or just choose some titles to convert. And to combine all the added DVD titles into a single video files, just click the Merge into One File button to join all added DVD files.

Step 2. Choose the output format

Next, click Profile and choose WMV, AVI or ASF from Common Video as the output video format. For more advanced settings, you can click Settings to adjust the output video bit rate, frame rate, etc.

Step 3. Start conversion

When all the settings are fine, click the Convert button to start converting your DVD movies to Windows Movie Maker.

After the conversion, click Open to locate the converted video files. After that, run Windows Movie Maker and click Import Video to add the converted videos. Congratulations! Now you can edit these files in Windows Movie Maker to create an eye-catching movie.