to join together several mp4 clips

[mauricemaurice]

Hi,

MPEG Streamclip seems the obvious solution. I wrote to them the following email which is self explanatory:

Last week end, I made 20-odd video clips with my video camera and transferred them to my Intel Mac (running Tiger 10.4.11)
The clips are in format MP4. I tried to join them into a single stream with MPEG Streamclip 1.8 by the following manoeuver:

1. play the first video (in MPEG Streamclip) and c to copy it all
2. Bring the pointer back to the left end. (Opt <--)
3. o to navigate to the second clip. Click just left of the pointer.. Press v to paste the first clip at the beginning of the second.
4. Bring the pointer back to the left end. (Opt <--)
5. o to navigate to the third clip, etc...

However, when I played the result, only the first 2 clips and the last clip showed.

Can you please tell me why all the clips in between were skipped?


I did not receive any reply. If anyone out there knows how to do it I would appreciate very much a tip.
(The reason why I prefer not to use iMovie is that there is a loss of quality due to one or more conversions.)

 

[bmcgonag]

Hi,

MPEG Streamclip seems the obvious solution. I wrote to them the following email which is self explanatory:

Last week end, I made 20-odd video clips with my video camera and transferred them to my Intel Mac (running Tiger 10.4.11)
The clips are in format MP4. I tried to join them into a single stream with MPEG Streamclip 1.8 by the following manoeuver:

1. play the first video (in MPEG Streamclip) and c to copy it all
2. Bring the pointer back to the left end. (Opt <--)
3. o to navigate to the second clip. Click just left of the pointer.. Press v to paste the first clip at the beginning of the second.
4. Bring the pointer back to the left end. (Opt <--)
5. o to navigate to the third clip, etc...

However, when I played the result, only the first 2 clips and the last clip showed.

Can you please tell me why all the clips in between were skipped?


I did not receive any reply. If anyone out there knows how to do it I would appreciate very much a tip.
(The reason why I prefer not to use iMovie is that there is a loss of quality due to one or more conversions.)

Your process is good, not sure about good in MPEGStreamClip, but if you try it in Quicktime it should work, though I don't know if it requires QuickTime Pro.

However, if you wish to try it, do basically the same steps you just said.

1. Open a clip in QT
2. Open 2nd clip in a separate QT window.
3. Use the apple+c to copy the 2nd clip
4. Go back to the first clip, move the pointer to the end of the clip, then use apple+v to paste in the 2nd clip.
5. Save as a new clip name.
6. Edit in part 3 in the same way as above.
7. Remember to save as you go...in case of mistakes.

Hope it helps,

Brian