Vista - windows m.maker freezes half way.

I tried and tried to publish my holiday movie to DVD. It never reaches the finish on publishing and freezes around half way. I transferred it from a SD card and the file is VMP. I'm sure WMM is working ok as I have been successful at publishing a sample video that came with the PC. Really would appreciate some help as I'm getting very frustrated.

I am not sure vmp files are supported by Vista, or that they can even be read by Movie maker.
Try converting the files.

PLease could you give me some guidence on how to go about converting it.?

Use this to convert to .wmv

format factory
Format Factory - Free media file format converter

What is making the .vmp files?

The movie I took was on a 8GB San Disk in a Panasonic camcorder (new). My PC is a Sony Vaio VGC-LM series only a few months old.

What is the Panasonic camcorder model that created the .vmp files?

The model is SDR-S7. I am getting rather confused as now I have a copy of the movie in my documents with the file (.mswmm) after it. If I try to import it into wmm it has completely disappeared. Can bring it in from drop down file though!

Storage Media: SD/SDHC Memory Card Compressed Format: JPEG Movie File Format: MPEG-2

video multiprocessor (VMP) for image compression and decompression schemes of MPEG (especially MPEG-2)

For Movie maker to play the MPEG-2 you need to download the codec.

First I would like to thank you so much for your patience. This looks so complicated for someone with limited knowledge. Where would I download a codec from and how do I know which one I would need? O.K. tomorrow is another day as it is nearly midnight for me.