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? 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