05. January 2017

How to Make MP4 files Work in Camtasia Studio 9/8/7

This article focus on problems which occur when importing MP4 into Camtasia and offers the best way to edit MP4 with Camtasia Studio 9/8/7 smoothly. 

You would handle kinds of video files daily, including YouTube MP4 videos, Sony MP4 Camcorder videos(XDCam-EX), GoPro MP4 footage, game MP4 recordings with OBS(Open Broadcaster Software), etc. And in order to get more wonderful videos, you probably will choose to edit .mp4 files with Camtasia which is a good option your screen and edit your videos to get professional-like videos before sharing to YouTube or FaceBook. While, there are dozen of .mp4 files can't be imported into Camtasia software, for the complex video codec of MP4 files. This article will be along with you to root the trouble and solution out here.



Some people including you may be confused: Camtasia says it supports MP4 at Techsmith support site, but why I can't import MP4 to Camtasia Studio? Well, that's because Camtasia prefers AVC/h.264 at no more than 30 frames per second instead of others while MP4 can contain various video codecs. So if you MP4 files are not accepted by Camtasia Studio, it's probably because of the video codec incompatibility.

To fix the problem, you'll need to convert those MP4 to a more editing-friendly format for Camtasia Studio with a MP4 file converter app. Dimo Video Converter Ultimate which is an easy-to-use MP4 converter for you, which can help you change MP4 into a Camtasia Studio accepted MPEG-1/MOV/MP4 with least quality loss. You should then be able to import the new file into Camtasia Studio with smooth editing without any trouble. 

The all-in-one and easy-to-use toolkit can convert all other popular video formats like AVI, MOV, MXF, WMV, MKV, FLV, ASF, M2TS, VOB, etc. to Camtasia Studio natively supported video formats on Windows (Windows 10 included) with fast encoding speed. For Mac users, just get Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac to get th job done. See how below about converting MP4 files to Camtasia Studio format.

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How to Convert MP4 files for Editing in Camtasia Studio 9/8/7

Step 1. Load .MP4 files

Drag & drop MP4 files to the program directly. Or go to the "Add file" to locate the MP4 files you want to add. You can add several files to do conversion at the same time.



Step 2. Select the output format

Click "Select Format" bar and then move your pointer to "Format" and turn to "HD Video" or "Video" and choose MPEG-1 or MOV as target format. Besides, you can also choose AVI, WMV, MP4, etc. if you want to get a relatively smaller output file.

Step 3 (optional): Adjust the video, audio settings

Click "Settings" to fix the frame rate, bitrate, video size, etc to your needs. If you want to edit in Camtasia Studio without having to render the clips while editing, all the frame sizes must be the same as the sequence settings. You can save a lot of render time by making all the clips the same size with this MOV video converter.



Tip: Furthermore, you are provided some useful edit functions cropping, trimming, adding watermark, adjusting effects for pre-editing your video files so that you can simplify your Camtasia Studio editing.

Step 3. Start MP4 to Camtasia Studio conversion 

Click the "Convert" button to start the MP4 to Camtasia conversion. Just in a few minutes, you make it.

Step 4. Import MP4 into Camtasia Studio

After the conversion, click "Open" to locate the result videos and then launch Camtasia Studio and click "Import media" import the converted MP4 video into Camtasia Studio; prepare for editing. You will find that it's just a piece of cake to edit MP4 files in Camtasia Studio. 

After editing or recording, you can export video toCamtasia Studio for playing and sharing.

 

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Source: Camtasia MP4 Tutorial- Import MP4 to Camtasia Studio 

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