I have a Toshiba laptop, probably not the best. Pentium processor, 500 gb disk with lots of space., running Win 7. Every .avi I try to load is cut off at exactly 4 min 56 seconds. I see VideoPad has a setting to limit length of photo clips, I was hoping there was some similar setting to limit length iv video files. I tried loading a 23 min avi into movie maker, it loaded very quickly, so I think the filea are OK and the computer is fast enough to at least load a file. Too bad Movie Maker is so whimpy!