Combine Lots of Video Clips Into One Very Quickly
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Say you have 30 (or any large number) different clips in a folder that you just want to combine (concatenate) based on the timestamps. You do not want to reencode them, just want to connect/combine them into one as if they were text files. The reason you do not want to re-encode them is that it’ll take a long time to process them and you might lose fidelity of the video if re-encode was not done correctly. The following instructions will just concatenate the files and produce a single file as an output in no time even on old hardware. (Ran this in FreeBSD 14.3 but you should be able to adapt it to a linux box or a Mac with homebrew).