Fast and fluid Nikon P610 h.264 mov workflow with Windows Movie Maker

This post displays the detailed steps required to transcode Nikon P610 H.264 MOV files to WMV format for importing to Windows Movie Maker editing smoothly. Keep reading.....

The Nikon P610 uses the same EN-EL23 lithium-ion rechargeable battery pack as the P600, but the CIPA-rated yield has been improved slightly -- now around 360 shots on a charge as opposed to 330, likely thanks in part to the RGBW display. Wired connectivity includes USB 2.0 High Speed data and Type-D Micro HDMI high-def video. Images (JPEG only) and movies (.MOV/H.264) are stored on SD, SDHC, or SDXC memory cards.

While, it's H.264 MOV video format is a FULL HD format that is highly compressed, so it can not be imported and edited on most of editing software on Windows, like Adobe Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas and Windows Movie Maker.
Question:
“I want to upload video clips from my Nikon P610 to windows movie maker to make a short bike edit but it pops up with a weird error message about the wrong codec."



Although Windows Movie Maker supports the importing of a wide variety of file formats including the MOV files, apparently video, audio problems still exist while importing and editing Nikon H.264 MOV videos. To make Nikon P610 MOV video files to work well with Windows Movie Maker, Brorsoft Video Converter is highly recommended to transcode Nikon MOV to Windows Movie Maker native format – WMV or AVI. In fact, no matter what version of the NLE apps you are applying, and what Windows system you are working on, this video converter will assist you to import Nikon, Canon, JVC, Panasonic camcorders files to Windows Movie Maker as well as Adobe Premiere Pro, Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas Pro, etc for editing smoothly. Follow its step-by-step instruction below to learn how to convert Nikon P610 MOV to .wmv for Windows Movie Maker.

Transcode Nikon P610 MOV files to Windows Movie Maker for smooth editing

Step 1. Load H.264 .mov footage

Launch the Nikon MOV to WMM Converter and then click the "Add" button to load .mov videos.
Tip: This MOV converter supports batch conversion, so you are allowed to add multiple files to convert at a time. Meanwhile, if you wanna combine multiple MOV clips into a single file, you can check the “Merge into one file” box.



Step 2. Click on the dropdown menu of “Format”, and then follow HD Video -->WMV HD(*.wmv) as the output format. Besides, you can also choose Divx (*.avi) as output if you have not installed the .wmv codec.



Step 3. Customize the video Settings. You can click “Settings” button to adjust output parameters, including the Bitrate of Video and Audio, the Codec of Video and Audio, Video Size, Sample Rate, Frame Rate, Audio Channels, etc.

Step 4. Click “Convert” button; this top Nikon DSLR MOV Converter will start transcoding Nikon P610 MOV files for Windows Movie Maker immediately.

Once the conversion completes, you can click “Open” button to get the generated WMV files for Movie Maker easily. Then, it would be easy to import and edit Nikon D610 footage in Windows Movie Maker with the best quality.

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