Freeware Video......

[AxelVIII]

I'm not sure if this goes here (Just like every other "First Section" posting I make) but I was wondering if anyone knew of a freeware program that allows someone to, well...piece together video files, if that makes sense. (Example: A program that will put together parts 1 and 2 of a full video together) if THAT makes any sense. Thanks in advance.

[lemmingllama]

Try Windows Movie Maker? It should already be installed on your computer, and it should be able to do that.

[JohnFlower]

avisynth can do advanced splitting/joining of videos. there is also the option of mkvmerge if all you want is to join two videos and watch them.

[Dark_Angel13]

Agree with Llama, you should try the windows movie maker and great thing is its already on your comp... Although if I recall you may of said you didnt have it with what you got

[lemmingllama]

avisynth can do advanced splitting/joining of videos. there is also the option of mkvmerge if all you want is to join two videos and watch them.

 

+1 for mkvmerge as well, easy to use and works quite well. Completely forgot to mention

[† L4ugh]

avisynth can do advanced splitting/joining of videos. there is also the option of mkvmerge if all you want is to join two videos and watch them.

 

I also agree with this, mkvmerge should be able to do this without the need for encoding. 

 

Avisynth is probably the best way to do it by encoding. It has a steep learning curve, but splicing video together is one of the easier things to do. 

LoadPlugin("x:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\ffms2.dll") # plugin needed for importing video/audiov1=FFVideoSource("x:\path\vid.xxx")  # for importing first video filea1=FFAudioSource("x:\path\aud.xxx")  # for importing first audio filed1=AudioDud=(v1,a1)  # for dubbing the first video and audio togetherv2=FFVideoSource("x:\path\vid.xxx")  # for importing second video filea2=FFAudioSource("x:\path\aud.xxx")  # for importing second audio filed2=AudioDud=(v2,a2)  # for dubbing the second video and audio togetherd1 + d2 # for splicing together mulitiple segments of videod1 ++ d2 # for splicing together mulitiple segments of video

The above script is just one example of how you could do it. All it's doing is importing the video and audio from both clips, dubbing them together, and then splicing them into one. The splicing part comes in at the end of the script. It's what the + and ++ mean. They represent two different ways of splicing (unaligned and aligned) so you don't need both.

 

At first glance avisynth scripts look like some kind of alien language, but if you slowly read through the easier ones (like above) you can start to understand what's going on.

[JohnFlower]

avisynth is good for joining videos that are of different formats. you can also trim to different frames and then join, something L4ugh didn't mention.

using avisynth doesn't necessarily mean you have to re-encode. you can just play the .avs file in MPC, and it will split, join and splice the files for you (this will use a fair amount of processing power). if you want a file to play on another computer, then you will have to encode.

encoding the video is another matter entirely. you will likely need to learn about x264 or whatever format you are wanting to encode to. if this is just for a youtube video, the encoding part wont matter too much.

[AxelVIII]

Try Windows Movie Maker? It should already be installed on your computer, and it should be able to do that.

 

I tried this, but my PS3 doesn't work with Windows Movie Maker files I don't think, but I can try it.

 

 

 

Agree with Llama, you should try the windows movie maker and great thing is its already on your comp... Although if I recall you may of said you didnt have it with what you got

 

I said no such thing, we've never talked about Movie Maker I don't think.lol.

 

 

 

avisynth can do advanced splitting/joining of videos. there is also the option of mkvmerge if all you want is to join two videos and watch them.

 

I don't trust avisynth, so I'm avoiding it altogether.

[† L4ugh]

I don't trust avisynth, so I'm avoiding it altogether.

 

While I do feel avisynth is badly in need of a replacement, or a complete rewrite. I don't see any reason to not trust it.

[JohnFlower]

avisynth can do advanced splitting/joining of videos. there is also the option of mkvmerge if all you want is to join two videos and watch them.

 

I don't trust avisynth, so I'm avoiding it altogether.

 

The only thing that can go wrong with Avisynth is the user's input. Avisynth does not make any permanent changes to a file (unless you tell it to), and you can easily see the changes with the likes of MPC or AvsPmod (this only with stock avisynth, no multithread support).