What video format are my videos in?

[EilishWarnes]

I recently brought a Sony handycam which I love for shooting videos. I usually edit my videos using windows movie maker. But it is not letting me edit them because the video files do not have the correct codec, do I will have to use a different editing software. I could convert the file to a different format on sony's PMB, but that makes the videos quite poor quality. So I want to get another editing software but in order to do that I need to see what video format my videos are so that I know the editing software will let me edit them. How do I find out what video format my videos are on sony's PMB? Thanks.

[rorymer]

Hi according to my account the video was saved in MPEG-2 hope this helps.

[aisthima]

To answer this question I will need the exact model of your camcorder.

[DamacizSi]

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/Download

http://support.d-imaging.sony.co.jp/www/disoft/int/pmb/trouble/index.html

http://support.sony-europe.com/main/index.aspx?site=odw_en_GB

http://support.sony-europe.com/tutorials/dime/editing_sw/ed_sw.aspx?site=odw_en_GB&m=DCR-SR290E

With latest SW update for PMB you can edit video fails 5.5.2...see support page. Otherweis you could use other editing programs, of course.

Regards

Damac