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Now that I have Avidemux working I am trying to find the best way to take videos from my camera and move them to a website. My camera will only record videos for 29 minutes so I need to combine several clips for a video. My camera saves videos in the MOV format. I have been using FFMPEG to combine the videos.
FFMPEG gives the following information on a video.
I have been using Handbrake to compress the file and it converts a 6.5 Gb 1 hour video to about 2.5 Gb which looks and sounds good. After the conversion the FFMPEG shows:
When I ran Handbrake I used the web option to allow viewing before fully downloaded.
I have a lot of options to move the videos from camera to website and I was hoping someone who knows more about videos could make some suggestions. I was hoping that Avidemux would be able to combine the videos and compress them but it crashes when I try to open a mov file. When using Avidemux on the m4v files I don't know what the best output options to use for the output. Thank you.
If you're trying to simply combine videos of the same format, use ffmpegs concat and stream copy options?
Or for concat and then compression, simply concat and set the bitrate to a lower amount.
VLC has a convert/save option in the first menu, Media. And there are a variety of options, even things like using the filters to rotate by 90 or 180 degrees, and etc. I've use it, however you have to be cautious to understand that it sometimes can not work. Being no expert on video/audio codecs, you try something, figuring you have other similar videos, and then you get a file which doesn't work at all. Therefore keep your originals and when you do this convert, you have to things to verify (1) that the converted output is in fact smaller as you desire, and (2) that the resultant video does work properly. They have some canned output formats for things like YouTube SD or HD, if I recall correctly.
have you looked into Blender capabilities to do really cool stuff to movies, as well as combine clips together to make one movie, in different formats?
Supported Video Formats
you might have to import or convert your movies into a supported format. it doesn't look like blender does MOV files. But is does really cool stuff with them.
transitions, four square images playing at the same time in one window for example. or more even.
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