Bought NCH's Prism file covnertor (used the trial a few times and it seemed to work well)
did the whole thing with nCH and skipped moviemaker, uploaded easy, 8 minutes for a 5 minute video. overall resolution quality dropped sharply with the upload though. It may have picked up an old clip i started it with and based it on that ...may try and cut it out and see what happens ...anyway, here's some highlights of a few mellow laps ... BTW, you gotta rturn up the volume. meant to kill it only for the first clip but it cut them all way down.
http://youtu.be/XwRW0fujK44?hd=1