Stitching MPG files together

Yes. You may very well be able to use iMovie. There are some known issues relating to loss of sound, but a quick search around the iMovie forums may lend a clue if this should occur.

It should be as simple as opening iMovie, dragging your clips to the thing. Finish edits and share the project.


Beavis2084

Scott,

The Pro version of Quicktime should allow you to do this using cut-and-paste operations. You can also do some limited forms of editing.

Drake Bradley

cool.. I learned something today! WOOHOO!

I'm going to play with my QTP more!


Beavis2084

In some cases, just concatenating the files together works fine. Use Terminal;

$ cat file1 file2 file3 >combined_file

If you have a large number of clips, named m01.mpg m02.mpg ... m99.mpg,
and no other mpg files starting with 'm', you can easily do it with

$ cat m*.mpg >t1; mv t1 m_all.mpg

(* is a wildcard that is expanded to list all matching files in lexical order.)

But what about some application that would let you do the stitching.
It's that possible?

Thanks

Hi nOmeda,

You might try the shareware app called "ChunkJoiner". I have used it with limited success. I say "limited" because there are video clips it joins easily and others that it does not.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/1303

Hope this helps.

In response to Scott's question, I no longer have Quicktime Pro. My pre-OS X version however would let me open each mpg movie in a different window, open a new (blank) window, and then cut-and-paste each of the mpg movies into the blank window. For example, I would click on the mpg1 movie (say), select all (command-a), copy the selection (command-c), click on the blank window, and paste (command-v). At that point the new window has a copy of mpg1. Then I would click on the mpg2 window, command-a, command-c, and command-v the result to the end of the movie in the new window (be sure to deselect the last movie pasted and position the pointer at the end, or you will end up replacing the last pasted movie with the new one). When you are done, save the movie with all the mpgs concantenated together.

When I got my iMac, my (OS-8) Pro version would no longer run, and I haven't felt like springing for the OS-X version. But I can't see why it wouldn't work the same way.

Drake