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Can one combine or concatenate pre-recorded clips?

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2022 10:06 pm
by stavana
I have multiple timelapse clips that are saved on my HDD based on BI format. I want to concatenate them. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance

Re: Can one combine or concatenate pre-recorded clips?

Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 12:43 pm
by TimG
I don't think BI will do this, but I guess you could convert them into something a video editing program could work with.

Re: Can one combine or concatenate pre-recorded clips?

Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2022 3:56 pm
by stavana
OK thanks for your response

Re: Can one combine or concatenate pre-recorded clips?

Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2022 6:53 pm
by MikeBwca
What is the 'Combine or cut' set at? Easier to work with smaller files, but, you'll run into this type of issue.
I use 24 hours, as I do not move or export them. I Export smaller clips from time-to-time.


An excellent free for personal use graphic editor is 'DaVinci Resolve' by 'Blackmagic Design'... https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/produc ... ciresolve/

Re: Can one combine or concatenate pre-recorded clips?

Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2022 7:43 pm
by YrbkMgr
DaVinci Resolve is a most excellent application and a good recommendation in my opinion. If I'm just combining video and not editing, I use Avidemux Portable. It's butt simple for the task, free, and the portable platform means that it doesn't require installation - I run portable apps from an old 1.5 TB USB 2.0 drive.

I uploaded a short video demonstrating how easy it is to combine MP4.
Combine MP4 via Avidemux

Re: Can one combine or concatenate pre-recorded clips?

Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2022 8:21 pm
by stavana
Thank you all for your responses. Looks like one has to use a third party tool for this.

Re: Can one combine or concatenate pre-recorded clips?

Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2022 8:30 pm
by YrbkMgr
Yes, it would require processing outside of BI. You have to export said clips to some format, usually MP4, and then join them with another program.

Re: Can one combine or concatenate pre-recorded clips?

Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2022 12:43 am
by Thixotropic
I use FFMPEG to do this and it works very well. Not a point-and-click kind of thing but it's still easy to use.

In Linux you can also do this just by concatenating files. A little more obscure but also works perfectly.

Re: Can one combine or concatenate pre-recorded clips?

Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2022 1:24 am
by YrbkMgr
Exactly... the point is: the task cannot be done with raw BVR files requiring 3rd party utilities.