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 >>>>>>> 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? 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