Quicktime Pro is $30 from Apple and will allow you to merge multiple
movies with different sizes and codecs. The final movie will have the
image size of the largest piece and others will play in the top left
corner of the window. That said, you have to use QT Player 7 if you're
on Snow Leopard as the regular one lacks all the editing features. So
you just open up fileA and fileB in QT7. Make a new movie, go to fileA,
select All, go to the new movie and paste, go to fileB, select all, go
to the new movie and paste. When you're done save your new concatenated
movie.
CB
Sarah Alawami wrote:
I'll give that a go and hopefully post back with results. You ar ecorrect in
saying that the header info will be a royl pain inthe but to edit. lol! a
friend of mine last ngiht gave me a lecture on that.
Take care. Oh and hoe much is QT pro? I am jsut curious.
Thanks.
On Aug 18, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Sarah and Barry,
First, Barry's instructions about using the "cat" command in terminal to concatenate files are quite
accurate, but they won't solve Sarah's problem about how to join .mov files and end up with a playable result, and this
has to do with the structure of these files. Such a file joining program has to both put the data in the individual
files together, and update the header information so that it reflects the new total length. Further, there can be
potential incompatibilities between the different files being used -- an easy example would be if you were joining
constant bit rate audio mp3 files, where one of the files was encoded at a different bit rate. If all the files are
constant bit rate and encoded at the same rate, it's relatively easy to just concatenate the individual files (with a
"cat" command), and then to update the file header information to reflect a new total time. However, once you
include a file with different properties, simply sticking that file into the middle may no longer work, and you might
have to re-encode the information. The structure is actually more complicated for movie files, since instead of a
single header with tags, you have a "container" that holds both the audio and video parts of a movie, with
separate atoms (like "tags") for the various metadata.
I believe QuickTime Pro (paid) will join movie files, and allow you to operate
through the GUI interface. I've also heard that MPEG StreamClip will handle
this kind of operation. Probably someone like Darcy Burnard could comment on
this, since I don't know whether these work with the output formats that Sarah
wants. I've only really explored this subject in the context of working with
audiobook files.
Here's the page for MPEG StreamClip to check for more information:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MPEG_StreamClip
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Aug 18, 2010, Barry Hadder wrote:
Well, it is going to get a little more involved, but you can do the fallowing.
this will strip the header from file1, contatinate it with file2, and write the
final result to final_file:
sed 1d|cat file2 /dev/stdin>final_file
This is assuming that the header is 1 line. you need to know how many lines it
is and replace the integer in the sed command accordingly.
if you have a bunch of files who's headers need to be stripped:
( sed 1d file1&&sed 1d file2&& so on )|cat file /dev/stdin>final_
file
It might be a good idea to play around with this on simple text files just so
you know what order you want the files to be in.
On Aug 18, 2010, Sarah Alawami wrote:
Except the headers in teh *.mov files might be different so youtube might not
play them. Basically I read an artical on how to merge *.mov files in QT but it
involves draging and dropping. I've tried several other programs including
imovie and tht didn't work.
Take care.
S
On Aug 18, 2010, Barry Hadder wrote:
Hi,
I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but if all you are doing is
concatenating files you can do the fallowing:
cat file1 file2>file3
That will merge file1 and 2 putting the contents into file3. You can type man
cat to learn more about how to use it.
There is also a merge command that is useful for merging changes in to or more
files.
hope that helps.
On Aug 18, 2010, Sarah Alawami wrote:
Oh I did and I found out it might not work. I need another method of doing
this with a gui.
Is there a program that will merge mov files and be accessible.
On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:04 AM, Barry Hadder wrote:
Sarah,
Hit control-c to shut down the cat util.
It doesn't mater if a file name has spaces. you can saround it with quotes,
escape the space with \, or use tab. The tab completion applies at any time.
The cat command expects a file name, and if it doesn't have one in it's
parameter list it just sits there. Any time that happens, use control-c.
On Aug 18, 2010, at 3:12 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
I did. Now I can't get the cat command to work. it sits there with no output or
errors
Sarah Alawami
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On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:07 AM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote:
Can you rename it in finder? Find the folder from finder, press Enter, and
give it a name without spaces?
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