video clip joining

[Walter Biscardi]

[ben] ”
One speaker per clip, apparently they want a bunch of them thrown together. is tehre anyway I can just batch up the clips and join them together, any ideas?”

Create a new timeline.

Grab all the clips you need.

Drag them into the timeline.

Lay off to tape or export as a self contained movie.

Alternatively, edit the clips into the timeline if you need to trim off the heads and tails.

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[Ben Oliver]

yeah, thats the good way to go about it, i agree.

i was kinda hoping to just join up my mp4 clips, i believe there are a few pc programs that do this.

These people are very annoying, and need it fast, and I was hoping that something like this would do the trick, and I wouldnt have to go back to the high rez footage.

-b

[Paul Dickin]

[ben] ” was kinda hoping to just join up my mp4 clips…”
Hi
Err? It always worries me when someone asks a question that the answer is so obvious 😉
What don’t I know?
Just copy and paste them one at a time into a QuickTime Pro Player window, one after the other (playhead at end of movie each time), then Save As the resultant long movie with make Self-Contained checked.

Or does doing that destroy the movie clip’s playability on a Windows PC?

[Ben Oliver]

thats not completely obvious to me…but sounds like it’s worth a try.

if it was obvious, i wouldn’t have posted. thanks for making me feel like an idiot.

thanks

-b

[Paul Escandon]

Don’t beat yourself up – it wasn’t actually that obvious. Most final cut users don’t even use Quicktime pro to its fullest capacity since they don’t really need to. The Quicktime only way should work though, and it’s probably the way you want to do it.

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[Paul Dickin]

[ben] “s for making me feel like an idiot. “
Hi
Not intended, my apologies.

Macs have used cut’and’paste since 1984, and QuickTime since 1991.
Nothing is more fundamental to the Mac interface, and to working with computer-based video/audio/text/data assets – its what a Mac does 😉

Straightforwardly, its worth spending a moment to learn about QuickTime, as its at the core of all Mac-based video editing – and knowing what it does and doesn’t do is extremely helpful in understanding the newer technologies like mpeg or mxf- format files, as well as web-based distribution.

[Ben Oliver]

growing up in the pc world, macs can be counter intuitive by being….intuitive.

ive been using macs for about 5 years, exclusively and i still learn new things.

this tip literally saved my computer a night of rendering, and got a pain in the arse client, the shutup quickkly.

thanks

-b