[msuper69]

So I did all the due diligence, searched the forums, Apple.com, etc. and I'm unable to find a free way to concatenate multiple QT movies into one.

I've got 4 snippets of an original movie that I now want to combine into a single new movie.

What is the easiest way to do this? (free if possible).

[besson3c]

This is a long shot, but you could try a:

cat file1 file2 file3 > newmovie.mov


If this were to work at all all of the files would need to be the same dimensions and format.

[msuper69]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

This is a long shot, but you could try a:

cat file1 file2 file3 > newmovie.mov


If this were to work at all all of the files would need to be the same dimensions and format.

Thanks but that only copies the first file to the new file.
I did man cat and it looks like cat is meant for text files.

[Chuckit]

It won't work because MOV is a wrapper, so the beginning of a file isn't the beginning of the video.

[msuper69]

I figured out a way to do this but it's kind of ugly.

I used QT Player 7 not QT Player (under Snow Leopard).
I opened each file, created a new player, then did a select all, copy, then paste into the new player.
I could probably use Automator to do this but to tell you the truth, I spent over an hour trying to figure out how to do it and finally got fed up and did it manually.
The problem I had was with an Applescript within the Automator workflow. I have yet to be able to use Applescript for anything substantial. And I've got decades of programming experience. Applescript sure doesn't seem very Apple-like to me.
Thanks all for your comments!

[Chuckit]

Applescript is meant to be a programming language for non-programmers, and indeed, it is equally impossible for programmers and non-programmers alike. Truly a marvel.

[msuper69]

Originally Posted by Chuckit 

Applescript is meant to be a programming language for non-programmers, and indeed, it is equally impossible for programmers and non-programmers alike. Truly a marvel.

It looks like it could be very powerful but why the he!! is it so hard to find a decent tutorial/textbook that an intelligent person could use to make some sense of it? You can find tons of decent books on every other language but Applescript...good luck with that!

[TETENAL]

If you have QuickTime Pro you can use copy & paste in QuickTime Player 7.

If you have iMovie you can drag and drop them together.

[SoBayJake]

Hope this helps:

1) Make a backup!
2) In Quicktime 7 Player (not X), open the first movie, advance the playhead to the end of the movie.
3) Drag a new movie file icon into the window.
4) Verifying that the playhead remains at the end, repeat step #3 for each movie.
5-A) If using QT 7 Pro: do File -> Save As... and save to a new file.
5-B) If not using QT 7 Pro: close the movie. QT should ask if you want to save your modifications. It will OVERWRITE the first original file (so make a backup!)

I've been doing this for a while, but I have QT 7 Pro.

-Jacob