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Joining/Fusing uncompressed video clips
This might be a stupid question, but is there a way to quickly join uncompressed video clips together?
In other words, I’m starting with uncompressed files (YUV 10bit 4:2:2 QT), and I will be ending with the same uncompressed format. I just want to adjust clip lengths, lay them side by side, and export one complete file.
It doesn’t seem like rendering, per se, would be necessary. I’m just trying to avoid the five hour export/render if there is a quick way to “fuse” these files together.
Do I just not understand what is involved in creating the composite file (that it does, in fact, require rendering)?
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Drop them to a timeline that matches, export; there should be no render needed – only the time to copy all of the files to a single QuickTime file.
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Information in case someone ever needs it or wants to contribute to this thread…
In my case:
The time line is 102 minutes, 1920×1080 23.976 YUV 10bit 4:2:2 with 48KHz 24bit stereo audio. I added a 5 second motion logo at the front (which was 1920×1080 23.976 YUV 10bit 4:2:2 with 48KHz 24bit stereo audio). I laid in 2 minutes of corrected end credits (a single clip dropped onto the main time line to replace the corresponding footage). That clip was also 1920×1080 23.976 YUV 10bit 4:2:2 with 48KHz 24bit stereo audio.
I’m am currently exporting to 1920×1080 23.976 YUV 10bit 4:2:2 with 48KHz 24bit stereo audio and it looks like the render will take more than 3 hours. I am definitely going to miss my deadline. Blurg.
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Update: after about five hours, I thought maybe something was wrong (the “estimated time” then said 3 hours, and was going up instead of down) so I stopped the render.
I thought maybe writing to the bare (slower, SATA interface) drive was a bad idea, so I set the render up to go back to the SAS GTech RAID (as I had previously been doing with render).
It is now the next day, and the render is still going (almost finished!). The total time is over 16 hours. Again, all I am doing is splicing together four identically formatted clips on a time line set up for that specific media.
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