My computer's moviemaking program does not accept videos from my Kodak EasyShare Z885. My program is windows movie maker. Can the camera take videos in compatible format?

Windows Movie Maker cant read mov video files, you need to convert them to a more common format like wmv
How to convert mov to wmv
Follow the guide above to handle the conversion task.

Windows Movie Maker is a very useful application to edit videos, and it has many features such as effects, titles/credits, transitions, audio track, timeline, narration and so on. However, if you want to edit Kodak videos using Windows Movie Maker, you will have to convert Kodak video to Windows Movie Maker supported video formats such as WMV, AVI and ASF.

Kodak video to Windows Movie Converter can do the job perfectly. The following two parts will guide you through the steps to convert Kodak video to Windows Movie Maker and edit Kodak video with Windows Movie Maker.

http://www.kodakvideoconverter.com/article-kodak-windows/edit-kodak-video-with-windows-movie-maker/

Mov is the default format for kodak camcoders which cannot be recognized by windows movie maker.If you want to edit kodak mov video with windows movie maker, you can convert mov to wmv, avi, mpg. Try this one:
http://www.kodak-video-converter.com/kodak-video-to-windows-movie-maker.html
It helps me a lot! Hope it can help you !

Hi,

yes, you can download one of thousand free video converter programs from the web. Then you can convert the videos to the avi, mpeg or wmv format.