How to Import MKV Files in Camtasia Studio for Editing?

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Why Can’t You Import .mkv Files into Camtasia?

Solutions to Fix Camtasia Studio Not Importing MKV

-Solution 1. Convert MKV to Camtasia Compatible Format

-Solution 2. Record MKV Videos with Camtasia

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Camtasia is a software suite for creating and recording video tutorials and presentations via screencast or a direct recording plug-in to Microsoft PowerPoint. Other multimedia files can also be recorded or added separately. However, when you have some movies in MKV format and hope to load them into Camtasia Studio to create a video, you may fail to do that. And this is what we will share in this post. The following will show you why MKV can’t be loaded into Camtasia and how to successfully add your MKV content to Camtasia for editing. Continue reading now!

Why Can’t You Import .mkv Files into Camtasia?

MKV is a popular video container format for storing multimedia content like movies and TV shows. If you fail to load MKV files into Camtasia Studio, the cause is actually that Camtasia Studio doesn’t add MKV as its supported video format. From the TechSmith Support official website, we can clearly see that MKV is not showing on the supported file formats list.
Want to know the Camtasia Studio supported file formats? See here:
https://support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050165452-Camtasia-Supported-File-Formats-on-Windows

If you hope to import your videos in .mkv format into Camtasia for editing, just read this post, which offers two solutions for you: one is to convert MKV to Camtasia supported formats, and the other is to play the MKV file and record the video content using Camtasia and later load the recording into Camtasia for editing.
Keep reading for details on the two methods.

Solutions to Fix Camtasia Studio Not Importing MKV

Solution 1. Convert MKV to Camtasia Compatible Format

To convert MKV to a Camtasia-supported format, all you need is a video converter. Among various video converter programs on the market, WonderFox HD Video Converter Factory Pro is highly recommended for you for its excellent performance in conversion speed and quality. It can convert unsupported MKV files to Camtasia supported MP4, MOV, and more profiles. Featured with batch conversion mode and hardware acceleration, you can add multiple files for conversion at the same time with fast speed. If you want to save the soundtracks in MKV videos, this program can also help you extract audio from video to WAV, MP3, and more.

Support all MKV files encoded with different video and audio codecs
Convert MKV files in batches with high quality preserved
Edit, compress, and modify output file parameters
Process 4K, 2K, HD, large, and long videos with no lag

The following is the guide for how to convert MKV to Camtasia supported video format on Windows. Before starting the conversion, free download and install this recommended converter on your computer now!

Step 1. Add MKV Files to the Converter

Launch HD Video Converter Factory Pro after the installation and then click on the “Converter” to open the Converter program. Press the center “+” button or upper-left “+ Add Files” / “Add Video Folder” button to import your MKV file(s). You can also open the file folder and directly drag and drop the MKV files into the workspace.

Step 2. Choose a Camtasia-supported Format

Go to the right side and click the format image to open the output profile menu. Then, pick a format compatible with Camtasia under the “Video” tab. Here, you are recommended to select the H.264 encoder profile. If you choose other compatible formats, remember to adjust the output video settings to be compatible with Camtasia.

Optional. Edit, Compress, and Modify Output Files

If needed, you can use the provided editing tools to trim, crop, merge videos, and more. Click the bottom batch compression button can also help you reduce the file size. For adjusting the output video settings, you can open the “Parameter settings” window to change the video codec, resolution, bitrate, frame rate, etc.

Step 3. Convert MKV for Camtasia Now

Click the ▼ icon at the bottom of the interface to specify an output folder for the converter files. Or you can also leave the output path as default. Then, press “Run” to start the conversion. The conversion process depends on the file size and length. After finishing the conversion, you can add the converted files into Camtasia to make a video without hassle.

That is the whole conversion process with HD Video Converter Factory Pro. However, the unregistered Pro version will only convert 5 minutes of each file. If you want to convert long MKV videos to Camtasia-supported formats for free, just give Free HD Video Converter Factory (the free version of HD Video Converter Factory Pro) a try. It allows you to convert MKV to MP4 or other formats for free with no size and length limitations.

Solution 2. Record MKV Videos with Camtasia

As stated previously, Camtasia is also capable of recording. Therefore, the other way to import MKV to Camtasia for editing is to play the MKV video content and then record the video with Camtasia Recorder. Once you finish recording, it will automatically add the recorded video for further editing. This way can help you edit MKV and any other video files without encountering format issues.

However, there may be some quality loss of the recorded video file.

Step 1. Open an MKV video in a desktop media player or web browser.
Step 2. Launch Camtasia Studio and customize the recording region to fit the playback window.
Step 3. Click the “rec” button and play the video content.
Step 4. After finishing the conversion, Camtasia will create a .trec file and allow you to preview and edit the recording on Windows.

Some users reported that the preview window won’t appear after finishing recording, and Camtasia will automatically close. If you encounter the same issue, you can go to the “C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\Camtasia” path to find your recording in the Rec Month-Day-Year.trec form. Then you can add the recorded .trec file to Camtasia for making a video.

Tips. Convert Camtasia Video to MKV

Camtasia holds two file types for its recording (.trec) and project files (.tscproj). Those two files When recording or editing a file with Camtasia, it will save the file in those two formats by default. However, TREC and TSCPROJ files can only be opened in Camtasia. So if you want to play the recorded or edited files with other programs, you need to perform a video conversion process. The recommended WonderFox HD Video Converter Factory Pro can help you convert TREC and TSCPROJ files to MKV or other popular digital video formats. You can also directly convert Camtasia videos to MP4 format in Camtasia itself.

Wrap-up

Above is all I want to share with you about importing and editing MKV in Camtasia Studio. Whether converting or recording the video, both can help you open the video content in Camtasia. Moreover, if you need to convert Camtasia files to MKV or other formats, this post can also do you a favor. Hope you can find this post helpful. Thank you for reading.

FAQs

Q1. Does Camtasia work with MKV files?

No. Camtasia doesn't support MKV video format since it is a complex file container format that can contain multiple video, audio, and subtitle tracks. If you want to edit MKV files in Camtasia, you need to convert MKV to Camtasia-supported video format or use Camtasia to record the MKV video content when playing it.

Q2. What video format does Camtasia support?

Camtasia supports many video formats, and they are:

MP4 (H.264), WMV, AVI, MOV (QuickTime), MTS, M2TS, M4V, MPG, MPEG, TREC (Camtasia recording file format).

Q3. Can you play MKV format video?

Yes. Many media players support playing MKV videos. If you encounter issues when playing MKV files, you can try other media players like VLC media player, Potplayer, etc.

Refer to How to Play MKV Videos on Windows/Mac/Linux/Android/iOS to find more solutions to play MKV files on different devices.