Insert media into Camtasia Studio 7 and get it into the timeline for editing

Hi. This is a short tutorial to show you

how to import a video clip into Camtasia Studio 7,

and then get it down into the timeline

where you can edit it.

So when you first open Camtasia 7,

this box comes up,

and there are several choices of

things you can do,

and one of them is "Import Media."

So I'll click on that,

and that will take me to a box

where I can browse on my computer.

I can browse for the video file

I want to import.

So I've found the file that I want,

and I'll click on it and highlight it.

Then in the lower right of the box

it says "Open," and I'll click on that.

What happens then is that the

video file is loaded into this white area

called the "Clip Bin."

In order to get it down to the timeline

where I can edit it,

I'll click on it

and then left-mouse click on it and

drag it down to the timeline.

Then I'll release my mouse.

You can see it puts the clip into the timeline.

As I do that, a box comes up

asking me what size I want

the final produced video to be.

There's a default size, 640 by 360,

but if I click on this small arrow

on the right of the box,

a list of other sizes pops down.

And I'll choose this 640 by 480 size.

It's a good compromise between the

size of your final video

(how it shows up on a computer screen)

and the file size.

You don't want really big files because

it can be hard to upload them.

So I'll click on 640 by 480

and it shows up in the box,

then I'll click "OK," and

that will be the size of my final video.

If I want to import another video clip

into this same project,

on the upper left there is a menu item

"Import Media," and I can click on that.

The same type of box comes up

where I can browse through my computer.

So I can browse for another clip,

I'll click on that.

I'll click open, and it shows up

in the Clip Bin.

Again, I can click on it, and

drag it down to the timeline,

and insert it right after the clip before.

So that's how to do it.

That's how to import your video clips

and get them to the timeline

where you can edit them in Camtasia Studio 7.