Converting movie files

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

Hello Boys, i'm looking for a bit of advice.

I have a couple of short movie clips taken on my camera, they are AVI files, today I tried to play them on my Panasonic smart tv and it said 'file not supported'

Going through the help pages on the telly it says mpegs are ok, so how do I convert AVI files to mpeg? 

I googled it and got loads of free downloads but I'm always a bit wary of these, can anyone reccomend a good converter, preferably free. 

Please keep it simple, i;m old and not very techy.

[Marcus Barlow - Show and Events Co-ordinator]

37 minutes ago, Paul Hurdsfield said:

I have a couple of short movie clips taken on my camera,

we've all got some of those 

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

Not at our age

It's similar to this but much better

 

 

 

[Wobblyprop]

I have used Freemake successfully in the past, although now I have a paid for editor.  Just be careful when you install it as it will offer to install all sorts of additional rubbish you don't want, if I recall correctly.

Steve.

[Andy Banks]

If you have Windows, Windows movie maker should do it...

[Stuart]

This one works for me Any Video Convertor

 

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

9 hours ago, Andy Banks - Chairman said:

If you have Windows, Windows movie maker should do it...

I have windows 8.1 and I cant find Movie maker.

[Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO]

55 minutes ago, Stuart said:

This one works for me Any Video Convertor

 

Thanks Stuart it works great for me too. 

And thanks to all who came up with suggestions 

[CraigHew]

I know you're sorted but Format Factory (free and well supported) converts between most known file types, video, audio and others. used it weekly now for a few years from short Gopro clips to 3GB plus movies.