Merging an MPEG clip

[da_SPiN]

Lo dudes...

Just on little, maybe dumbass, question... Is it possible to join 2 or more MPEG clips without reencoding them? I mean, sure, I load them into premiere or edit* and reencode the whole timeline but this is not the way I wanna do it...

thx in advance...

SPiN

[N_F]

TMPGEnc --> MPEG Tools...

Of course the resolution has to be the same of the clips. Or if you're familiar with DOS you can actually join the clips with the copy command.

[da_SPiN]

thx a lot for the tmpeg hint... studip me, should know that 'cause I'm using it now and then... what do you mean with the "copy" command? I mean I know the command under DOS, but I don't know how to join mpegs with this one...

thx

SPiN

[Boulder]

The DOS command probably won't work as MPEG files are more than just binary files - think about the muxing process and you'll see what I mean. It might work on one case but not the other and the results could be just about anything.

[N_F]

If I remember correctly you use it like this: copy source1.mpg+source2.mpg+source3.mpg destination.mpg

I've only used it once and it worked well that time. But Boulder is probably right, TMPGEnc is safer.

But it's great if you have a lot of txt-files that you want to add to one big txt-file.

[Boulder]

Originally posted by N_F
But it's great if you have a lot of txt-files that you want to add to one big txt-file.

Yup, they're most likely ASCII so it works flawlessly:)