How to Edit Fraps video in Windows Movie Maker

Why Can't Edit Fraps Video in Windows Movie Maker?

Many PC games know the Fraps which is a screen capture and screen recording utility for Windows. Games user can capture the video for editing in Windows Movie Maker. Get the Fraps video is easy, however edit the Fraps video in Windows Movie Maker is not so happy, most user can't edit the Fraps video in Windows Movie Maker and meet various phenomenon, for example: User try to open a fraps video with wmm, no matter how long the video is, it says that its 7 seconds long and plays a black screen for 7 seconds, what's happening? Some user are worse, can't import Fraps video in Windows Movie Maker.

Solutions for Editing Fraps Video in Windows Movie Maker?

Reason 1: Even though AVI video can be supported by Windows Movied Maker, when user can import Fraps video to Windows Movie Maker, but still can't edit the vidoe smoothly, Windows Movie Maker may cause thi condition, some setting need to update or adjust for better video editing.

Reasoin 2: As we know, Fraps uses a AVI file to save the capture video and audio which can be supported by Windows Movie Maker. However the Fraps video file sizes are relatively large: A two-minutes-long screencast of a full HD screen (1920×1080) may take up 3.95 GiB on disk, sometimes, when user import the Fraps video to Windows Movie Maker, the screen will be black or get stuck.

Reason 3: Fraps records video at high resolution if the computer is sufficiently powerful. The maximum supported resolution is currently 7680*4800, High resolution is also the main factor which cause video editing issue.

From these reasons, user can do the following action to check and solve most issues that edit Fraps Video in Windows Movie Maker.

Solution 1: Windows Movie Maker Setting

Because Movie Maker can use any of the codecs installed by converters, media players, etc. and sometimes it picks one it's allergic to. There are too many codec choices. user can Unchecking these "extra" codecs, forces Movie Maker to use only the codecs originally installed on your machine.

Steps: Open the Windows Movie Maker, go to Tools>Options>Compatibility tab (XP and Vista) or click the WLMM button (upper left corner) and click "Options". uncheck any codecs that are checkmarked.

Solution 2. Compress Fraps Video

Therefore, playing Fraps video output requires Fraps or ffdshow to be installed. Compression is relatively low, user nned a third software to compress Fraps Video. A video size is affected by different factors, the most important video parameters are video frame and resolution, sometims, the high bit rate can affect the video running. User can find a video converter to adjust these parameters to reduce the Fraps Video size.

Best Way to Edit Fraps Video in Windows Movie Maker

AVI is a video container which holds different video and audio codec, Fraps capture the video with special codec which Movie Maker doesn't like the codec. Best way is to convert tand compress the Fraps video to WMV which is the best video fotmat Windows Movie Maker supports. Here, Pavtube Video Converter for Windows is your dream video converter, which can help user to convert Fraps video, compress Fraps video, edit Fraps video, of course, user can watch Fraps video in this video converter.

Poerful video conversion function can help user to convert any Fraps video to any video formats that Windows Movie Maker supports, even can convert and edit Fraps video in other NLE , like Adobe Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas Pro, Pinnacle Studio, iMovie, etc. At the setting menu, user can adjust the Fraps video and audio codec for better editing. Want to reduce the Fraps video for editing, upload to Youtube? Just need to change the video frame, bit rate, size. At the same time, user can change the audio codec, audio channel, sample rate.

This software also is an excellent video editor, most prople ignore that cut the video into clips is the direct way to reduce the video size, user can use the Trim feature to cut the video into clips for better editing in Window Movie Maker, then user also can user the Merge feature to combine many clips into one file, so nice. In this video convert, user also can user Snapshot to capture the Fraps video wonderful picture.

By the way, get 3D video from Fraps Video, it's really cool, this video converter can realize user the great idea, in the Format list, user cna find the 3D Video category quickly,click the mouse and choose the 3D effect you are desired, an amazing 3D video will appear on your PC.

User also can adjust the video background, video brightness, video length, add the subtitles, watermark in video. More editing features are waiting for you to explore. If you want to know more about the excellent Windows MovieMaker Converter? this article may be useful.

How to Use the Video Converter to Edit Fraps Video in Windows Movie Maker?

Step 1. Load Fraps videos to Fraps Video Converter

Install and launch videos to Fraps Video Converter on your computer, click "File" > "Add Video/Audio" to load Fraps videos files to the program. You can click the "Folder" button to batch load multiple Fraps videos files into the program. The high stability allows user to do batch video conversion for saving much time and energy.

Step 2. 3 Options to Edit Fraps Videos in Windows Movie Maker

Here, user have 3 options to set and edit Fraps Videos in Windows Movie Maker, user can convert the whole Fraps Video, change the Fraps Video AVI file codec or cut the video to clips, anyway, it's up to you. Of course, i recommend the option 1: Convert Fraps Videos to Windows Movie Maker Supported Formats

Option 1: Choose Fraps Videos to Windows Movie Maker Supported Formats

Click "Format" bar, from its drop-down list, select Fraps videos to Windows Movie Maker supported format, such as: WMV is the best format for Windows Movie Maker, also MPEG-1 is the good selection too.

Option 2: Adjust the Fraps Video Codec

User can change the AVI codec to Windows Movie Maker best supported AVI codec, best of all, user can change the video size, frame for getting samller video size.

Option 3: Cut the Fraps Video into clips

Cut the Cut the Fraps Video into clips is also a good option. Just click the Trim, user can set the video start and end point, at the right, user can watch the video length.

Step 4. Begin Fraps videos Conversion

After all the format and codec settings are done, go back to main interface, hit right-bottom "Convert" button to start Fraps videos to Windows Movie Maker supported format process. Just wait for a while, you can get a brand new video file. In addition, you can watch the video at the preview window

Good news, other Windows Movie Maker unsupported video formats such as: XAVC, MXF, H.264 and H.265 4K video etc, This software can help user to edit well. Don't be wait any more, this software will be your best Fraps video converter.

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