Yikes what  did I do in asking this question! lol! I'm Kidding. Thanks everyone 
for the valuable info and I'll keep you all posted. I'll take a look at hte 
stream thingy that ester sent. I sware she should work for an apple store or 
for apple themselves! *grins*
On Aug 18, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Barry Hadder wrote:

> 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:
>>>>>>>>> • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/
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