Montag, 14. November 2011

Concatenating movies

After a long search I've come across QTCoffee link - a very useful collection of command line tools.
You can easily combine several quicktime movies to a single one, especially for technical trailers and black at the end this tool comes incredibly handy.

Many of the digital playouts I have to produce need different setups.

Here is an example:

catmovie
Bars.mov Black.mov Content.mov Black.mov
-self-contained -force-same-tracks
-o Outputmovie.mov

First tests seem very good - I hope I can use it more.

First caveat: Although concatenated movies of different formats will play back in QT player, after another conversion step the audio was garbled. I therefore use ProRes only before concatenating.