All right,

Hear is a link to an apple script that might help.  
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070520003140185
It's an app lit, but if it's hard to use with vo it can probably be modified to 
work differently.

I should have googled this before I responded to you because a lot of other 
people have tried using cat with no success.  I also found a rather interesting 
document on the specification of the classic qt format.  In case anybody is 
interested, it can be found at:  
http://developer.apple.com/standards/classicquicktime.html.


On Aug 18, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:

> Yeah I don't know how many lines the mov headers contain as I recorded them 
> on my iphone. lol!
> On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:34 PM, 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, at 1:48 PM, 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, at 11:33 AM, 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, at 12:36 PM, 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
>>>>>>> MSN: marri...@gmail.com 
>>>>>>> aim: marri...@gmail.com:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> website: http://music.marrie.org
>>>>>>> youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125
>>>>>>> Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 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?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> • Mark BurningHawk Baxter
>>>>>>>> • AIM, Skype and Twitter:  BurningHawk1969
>>>>>>>> • MSN:  burninghawk1...@hotmail.com
>>>>>>>> • My home page:
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