.avi and sound problems

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Okay. I have a couple of (possibly interrelated) problems here. (I'm using
Movie Maker 5.1)

I've recorded a movie on a friend's digital camera (a still camera that's
also capable of recording short movies), and he's sent them to me over the
internet. On the computer they're .avi files. I want to edit them in Movie
Maker, but things are weird. I can import the files just fine, and when I
play the clips from the "collections" part of the window, they play just
fine. But once I drop them into the storyboard and play that, while the
video is still fine, the audio is a complete mess. It sounds like an
untrained DJ scratching on a record album.

I did think of one clever way to get around this, which was to record the
audio portion of the .avi file in Audacity, export it as an mp3, and then
drop that into my Movie Maker storyboard as an audio track. However, when I
do that, the mp3 file plays at twice normal speed, so it's high pitched, and
it's also finished by the time the video portion is only half over.

Is there anything I can do to get Movie Maker to not screw up the sound of
my .avi and mp3 files? (I should add that it doesn't do this to ALL mp3s.)
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
 
avi is just a file wrapper, so it depends on what was used to make the
actual movie. Does his manual tell him? Has he compressed it further in any
way to send it to you? Try using something like audacity to make it into a
wma/wav file and see if that helps.
 
check your audio file settings. When making a slide show movie with music I
found the music had been recorded at 48kb/s and I could only save the movie
after the audio had been converted to 44.1kb/s (using audacity). however I
can only save it as a wmv, will not save as an avi!
 
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