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I was given a clip made on a mac and exported in MPEG-4 format. I transfered it to my pc via a thumb drive. I am able to view it in Quicktime and Windows media player but not in ulead. I even tried associating it with ulead. Is there anyway to use this clip in my ulead project?

With so many formats and so many format variations, you never know 'till you try a particular file. Sometimes you have to experiment with different formats, and sometimes you need a 3rd-party conversion program.

What version of Video Studio do you have? (The website says that X2 supports Quicktime, which is an MPEG-4 variation, but it doesn't say "MPEG-4". It says that X2 Pro supports both MPEG-4 and Quicktime.)

I was given a clip made on a mac and exported in MPEG-4 format.

FYI - If the original format was something other than MPEG-4: Its usually best to avoid any format conversion until you're done with editing. You can loose quality when you convert to a lossy format (like MPEG), or when you convert from one lossy format to another. And, the more highly-compressed formats (MPEG-4, WMV, DivX, etc) tend to cause the most trouble when you try to edit them or convert them to another format.

I am still using VS 10+ which I thought worked with MPEG-4.

VS10+ does support MPEG-4 (.mp4). I found a couple of mp4 files on my system and was able to insert them into VS10+.

Is there more than one form of mpeg-4 file?It gives me a message that it cannot open the file.

You could try converting the mpeg-4 file with this - it's free:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mp4cam2avi/

"MP4Cam2AVI is a MPEG4 to AVI converter/joiner for digital MPEG4 cameras, it makes their clips DivX/XviD compatible. MJPEG and H263 are supported as well. Program doesn't re-encode video, just passes video data to avi container."