Working with Windows Media Files

Hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I have a catologue of 55 webinars that have been recorded over the past 3 years for a client. They were archived as wmv. files and the quaility is very good. They have an issue with the title slides and some audio at the end of the presentations and I am looking for a way to edit these files. I have FCP and it not going to work. I am looking for something that hopefully does not have to render the originals on the timeline.
Does Premiere Elements allow you to edit wmv as a native file format? Or does anyone know of a third party utility that will allow me to do the edits. Thanks.

Welcome to the forum.
As you say:
I have FCP and it not going to work.
Is it safe to assume that you are on a Mac?
First, WMV is a format, that is very heavily-compressed Though PrE on a PC can Import them, there is a lot of processing that is required. I always convert to DV-AVI (on my PC for SD material), and then Import those.
For a Mac, I am not sure what is required to handle, and convert a WMV to probably a MOV file, but am sure that others can make Mac recs. for this. I do know that on a PC, QuickTime Pro (US $ 29 upgrade/unlock) can do a lot of conversions, but do not know about WMV's on a Mac.
Wish that I had more useful info, but others will probably to give you some good input for the Mac.
Good luck,
Hunt

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