Most of the time you just can’t open 3G2 or 3GP in windows movie maker. The best thing to do is convert the 3G2 or 3GP files to something WMM does understand. I use Super to convert the files to WMV so Windows Movie Maker can understand it. If your going to be doing major editing you may want to convert the 3GP file to AVI.

You can download Super here. Look for the link at the bottom of the page.

Here is a screen shot of my settings in Super to convert to WMV.

It looks like Pinnacle Studio version 11 is available for purchase. In the past Pinnacle products were not my favorite. They were riddled with bugs and crashed all the time. However since Pinnacle was bought by Avid I have been keeping an eye on the product line. Version 10 seemed to be an improvement over earlier versions. The new version 11 has a lot of nice features including the ability to edit HDV and AVCHD footage. I’m curious if the software was written from the ground up or just built upon the version 10 code.

I haven’t seen any consumer reviews on the product yet. I’ll keep my eye on the various forums.

DVGuru closed shop and it’s author moved over to Camcorderinfo.com

I wanted to comment over there wishing him luck but the site is wicked slow. I hope they move the blog over to a real blogging platform and not some hacked up version of vBulletin. Offering a feed might be nice too

DV Guru was a nice site that met the needs of beginners and experts alike. I’m looking forward to see how things go over at camcorderinfo.