Editing togehter a bunch of video clips on the computer

February 22, 2006 8:18 AM

I have a bunch of 30 second to 1:45 video clips on my computer of various comedy bits and sports highlights. What I want to do is compile them into one big file.....Rather then have 15 one minute clips, I'd like to mesh em into one big 15 minute clip....

What program could I use to edit them together so tat they will all play right after one another in Windows Media or real player, or even winamp?

any freeware out there that could help me out? thanks

posted by TwilightKid to computers & internet (10 comments total)

Are you running XP? Depending on the format of the clips, I think Windows Movie Maker will do that.
posted by gfrobe at 8:28 AM on February 22, 2006

Well, it depends. Are you seeking only the mere act of them playing one after the other? If so, any Windows media player that provides the functionality of a "playlist" would work.

If you're seeking for them to actually be one concrete solid media file, then you're looking for something that would concatenate them together.

Being a Mac nut, I can't help you with either, but you may wish to clarify what you're seeking.
posted by WCityMike at 8:44 AM on February 22, 2006

I doubt this is the case, but if they are all .mpeg files then CombiMovie will do this.
posted by Who_Am_I at 8:50 AM on February 22, 2006

VirtualDub will do this, Open and append.
posted by meehawl at 9:01 AM on February 22, 2006

I'd second Windows Movie Maker -- if you're using XP, you probably already have it on your machine. If not, you can get it here.
posted by jerryg99 at 9:39 AM on February 22, 2006

Yeah, I have a PC with XP running on it....

I'd like one big solid file, to pass around to friend and stuff, as opposed to the play list....

ill check out movie maker and combimovie.....

muchas gracias!
posted by TwilightKid at 9:44 AM on February 22, 2006

Don't overlook VirtualDub. It's free, works with many codecs, and is sweet. Has a bit of a learning curve, though.
posted by JHarris at 12:00 PM on February 22, 2006

If they're all mpegs, then most of the time you can open a Winzip window, drag them into it, change Compression to "None", and then rename the thing from .zip to .mpeg when you're all done. I think they all need to be the same window size... something to experiment with if you're so inclined.

I did not learn this from pr0n.
posted by BruceL at 12:38 PM on February 22, 2006

BruceL: Everything I Need To Know, I Learned From Pr0n.

I tried Virtual Dub, and it was way to intense for me. I can't recall what I used when I had to do this some months ago. Might have been Avi Joiner?
posted by Rock Steady at 3:52 PM on February 22, 2006

You should head to Videohelp , it has a whole lheap of apps, tutorials and reviews to do this kind of thing. I've used tmpgenc for similar tasks, its trialware but it is pretty clean and simple to use.
posted by ugrndhg at 4:02 PM on February 22, 2006