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Dec 7, 2002
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Hi everyone,

I often need to take a .mov ProRes video file and its associated .wav file and merge them together into a single file. My standard way of doing this is to open one in QuickTime 7, select all, copy, then open the other one, paste, and save.

However, as you probably know, QuickTime 7 doesn't run in OS 10.15. While I can open the video and drag the sound on top of it, there's no "save" option.

This seems like it should be simple but I can't figure out any way of doing it without QuickTime 7. Does anyone know what to do?
 
I don't know if there are already apps to do so, but it would be easy to create such app.
 
After some digging, I found that FFmpeg will do it, albeit not in a very user-friendly way!

Code:
ffmpeg -i video.mov -i sound.wav -map 0:v -map 1:a -f mov -c:v copy -c:a copy output.mov

So, solved, although if anyone knows of an easier way then I'm all ears :)
 
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