To start creating your project you need to import source material to AVS Video Editor first. To import media files please click the Import Media button in Start menu pane. After that Import Files standard explorer window will appear.

After that you can add your media files into the Import Area clicking the appropriate button - Add Video, Add Audio or Add Image depending on your media type. You can preview the added files, using the Preview Panel. Click the Play/Stop button to start or stop media file playback and the slider to navigate through the media file.

To detect the scenes in your movie that is going to be imported, tic the Enable Scene Detection check-box. It might be useful if you plan to delete some scenes while editing or insert transitions inside your movie.

You will need to use the right pane to select the scene search search type - Detect Scenes Changes or Detect TV Commercials. As can be seen from the name of the search type, the first one is used for any videos, whereas the second one is used primarily to detect the TV commercials and cut them out.

Note: every scene containing commercial will be given a 'Commercial' caption.

When you selected all the parameters you can click the Import Media button to start the importing process or the Back button to return to the video editing.

You will see the importing progress in the Preview Area.

Note: you can simply drag the files to be imported from Explorer and drop them to the Media Library.