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How can I mix two movies together before I handbrake them?
I've got a two part movie on my disk as a pair of VideoTS folders. I want to generate one output movie. I plan on using handbrake to do the encoding, unless someone can point out a better way to do it. The final intent is to create a video file for my iPhone or iPod. I've got about 90 videos already like this, but never done a two-parter.
Am I forced to handbrake it and then reauthor it using another platform? I can do that, but figured there was an easier way to do it. If there is another bit of software that changes my workflow but does this in less steps, I can accept that as an answer as well.
If there isn't a way to combine the two into one video file neatly, then my choice will be to open it in something like Windows Live Movie Maker and just mix the two input mp4/m4v into one file.
3Just remove the first paragraph and the name of the movie and nobody will care. There are enough free movies, or movies you could have created yourself, to make this a generally useful topic without implied legal issues. – Daniel Beck – 2012-01-29T18:13:28.330
Think so? I wasn't sure. – jcolebrand – 2012-01-29T18:19:30.390
Yeah, never saw somebody ranting about that here, like ever. Basically, you don't want to ever re-encode anything. I would suggest to rip them both to h.264 / MP4 using Handbrake and the exact same settings, then merging them with a tool like MP4Box.
– slhck – 2012-01-29T18:27:57.447So technically, @slhck, I want to ask how to reflow two video files together with something like MP4Box instead of asking how to do it with handbrake? Reckon I should start a new Q and leave this one for the googlers? – jcolebrand – 2012-01-29T18:31:48.627
No, it's fine to stay. The solution is kinda the same, I guess. I'm just trying to find out how to do that all on Windows :) – slhck – 2012-01-29T18:34:03.087
If you do type it up as an answer, I think you should definitely include about how re-encoding would be bad here, since I mentioned that. :-\ – jcolebrand – 2012-01-29T18:34:51.617
As always, let me know if you experience any problem with this approach. It worked for me – but it's always difficult to answer for another system. – slhck – 2012-01-29T18:46:59.230
I'm in the process of encoding the two videos according to the first part of the process, and will then run the MP4Box afterwards, and then will test watch on my iPod/iPhone later tonight. Let you know after that point. – jcolebrand – 2012-01-29T20:00:03.647