Fix Camtasia Studio 7/8/8.6 Not Working with MP4 Files

Camtasia Studio 7/8/8.6 makes video editing simple and intuitive. It's easy to record your screen or import your own video and audio files (MP4, WMV, MOV, AVI, etc.) for editing. Though MP4 is a default file format by Camtasia, but some of you still face Camtasia Stuido 7/8/8.6 won't import mp4 files; can't edit mp4 files with Camtasia Studio 7/8; imported mp4 files on Camtasia Studio 7/8 with no sound, etc. So, in this post, we come to fix Camtasia Studio 7/8/8.6 Not Working with MP4 Files. Read on to find out more.
Before going any further, let's look at the supported video/audio formats by Camtasia Studio 7/8/8.6 as below:

• MP4 (AVC/h.264 codecs required; 30 frames per second or less) 
• MTS and M2TS files. (Version 8.4 and later) You will need the AC-3 Filter if running Windows 7 or Winodws 8.0. 
• AVI 
• WMV 
• MPEG-1 
• MP3 
• WAV 
• WMA 
• MOV H.264 and PNG MOV codecs are supported. 
• M4A 
• bmp 
• jpg 
• png 

Actually, MP4 is a multimedia container file format that can be encoded with various different video codec such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.265/HEVC, VP8, VP9, etc. The main reasons that you can't import mp4 files to Camtasia Studio, is that the video/audio cdec are not compaible with Camtasia Studio 7/8/8.6. To fix it, the easy and quick way is to convert mp4 files to Camtasia Studio 7/8/8.6 supported file formats via a third party video converter.
Here, Brorsoft Video Converter Ultimate is highly recommended to convert MP4 files to Camtasia Studio preferred formats e.g. AVI, WMV, H.264 MP4, etc, without any quality loss. Besides, it also supports various formats of videos to seamlessly fit Adobe Premiere, Avid Media Composer, Windows Movie Maker, etc. editing software. For Mac users, please turn to Brorsoft iMedia Converter for Mac.

Free download best MP4 to Camtasia Studio Video Converter:

Guide: Convert MP4 Files to Camtasia Studio 7/8/8.6 Supported Formats for Editing

Windows Version Brorsoft Video converter taken as example, Mac Version share the same steps. Just keep in mind you have download the right version, Windows platform .exe files cannot be installed on macOS – and vice versa.

Step 1. Load MP4 Files

Install and launch the best MP4 to Camtasia Studio Video Converter, simply click “Load Files” to import your MP4 files to the program.

Step 2. Choose Output format 

Click "Format" bar and then choose H.264 MP4, AVI or WMV as target format for Camtasia Studio 7/8/8.6
Besides, you can also choose MPEG-2(*.mpg) if you want to get a relatively smaller output file.

Tip: Click the Settings icon to adjust video and audio parameters on the Profile Setting as you need to get the best quality video.

Step 3. Start Converting MP4 Files

With above settings, tap the Convert button to start encoding MP4 video to Camtasia Studio 7/8/8.6 friendly formats.
Once the conversion is finished, you can find the converted file on your computer by clicking the "Open" button.
And then you can import the converted files to Camtasia Studio 7/8/8.6 for editing via its "Import" option.

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