Lightweight Software for Combining Video / Audio Files

[Walter Soyka]

[Adam Bloemink] “Does anyone know of a lightweight OSX app that can do simple video tasks (like muxing separate audio and video files) very easily?”

Quicktime Player Pro. Since you have FCP, it should already be licensed on your machine.

If you need to work with MPEG files, you’ll want to listen to Dave’s suggestion of MPEG Streamclip.

Walter Soyka
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[Bartek Skorupa]

If you have Final Cut – you also have Quick time player pro.
I simply open video in QT player, then open sound in QT player, hit Cmd-A, Cmd-C (copy audio track), Cmd-` to switch to my video file, opt-left arrow to go to beginning of the video and Cmd-Opt-V to add sound to movie.
Then I save the file as a self contained movie. QT doesn’t re-compress the video nor audio. It does only copying. It takes seconds.

There is a very handy shortcut – Cmd-J. It shows you all the tracks you have in your movie. You can delete them, add new ones and so on.

In fact – QT player pro can do more than many users expect.

Bartek Skorupa
Warszawa, Poland

[Adam Bloemink]

Thanks guys, that worked well!

Years later, now that I’ve switched to Premiere Pro, I have a similar query:

Is it possible to do something similar in Premiere? In Final Cut, when you drop the source files in your sequence, it prompts to conform your sequence to the source files. You can then export to “Current Settings” without re compression.

I’m having trouble finding a similar workflow in Premiere. It seems it always wants to re compress my clips, even if my timeline is identical (Prores source to identical output.)

I suppose I could use QT Pro for this, but this seems like a pretty simple task, and I’m sure it must be possible.

Thanks,
Adam

[Adam Bloemink]

Just posted this in the Premiere section:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/3/920055

Sorry for the double post!