I got mpstream clip to work just fine actually. It is very slow at encoding but it works very good!
Thanks all for your help and have a wonderful day 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 23, 2010, at 1:14 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > 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 m >>> iddle 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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