careful, this kind of thing doesnt work well with VBR audio. VirtualDub (or nandub) is what you should use anyways

elislider

QuickTime Pro will join videos, just open both, edit>select all, edit>copy.
Then move the play-head to the end of the other video, and do edit>paste.
Then you can save (faster, becomes Quicktime containing whatever codec the original files are?) or export (will reencode to another format, H.264 for example - takes longer)

dbr

Speaking joining videos... anyway to join *cough* FLV files? I don't particularly want to encode it to AVI first.

ICEBreaker

So... coming back to Banana Split, it's a pretty useless program right? Can only split in % terms rather than at the point of interest. No thanks then.

ICEBreaker

Virtualdub is good, the best program by far bar none, is Avidemux.

BugMeNot

Sweet! Thanks for the recommendations, I can finally quit play-listing so much stuff...errr, yeah :D

DigitalNoise

Tovid is a GPL (open source, free) application that allows you to not only join multiple video files, but burn them in a DVD-friendly format.

It's an intermediate-level application though --you need to use some commands. However, for your troubled you're rewarded with the ability to create DVDs with text or image menus, your own chapter locations, and many more advanced features.

Here's the Tovid wiki:

[tovid.wikia.com]

Here's the step-by-step using Tovid (on Ubuntu) to create a DVD player friendly video from a ripped DVD from O'Reilly's "Ubuntu Hacks":

[books.google.com]

malrost

i use virtualdub... n its pretty simple over there...

shafilxt

@DigitalNoise:

Free Video Joiner - general
[www.doeasier.org]

ASFbin - WMV movie types
[www.radioactivepages.com]

Anyone else have any video needs?
Let me know.

dwhicks01

@DigitalNoise: I found this guide that uses VirtualDub. Worked for me perfectly.

[www.afterdawn.com]

kostyaf

Maybe I'm restating the obvious, but for Windows boxes Movie Maker will split/combine AVIs.

I started out using MM last year for the weekly videos I help produce and for a free product it has a lot of capability & is easy to use to boot.

No free program I've tried compares to Sony Vegas though. It's awesome and can be had at a discount price if you shop around a little.

BlogsOfSteel

I'll second VirtualDub. It's really easy to use.

Delzhand

If you're on Linux or Mac, the 'cat' builtin command joins just fine. On Windows, you can get that as part of the Cygwin bundle. Alternatively, look for hjsplit, which will both split and join. All free.

rlee

Virtual Dub is a popular program that will also do AVI splitting. There's a nice guide here:
[www.dvd-guides.com]

wunch

Is there any way to skip sections of the video (i.e. cut out commercials)?

...Anybody have tips on free programs that can cut commercials out of videos?

CommenterKeen

The program I mentioned above will also split files, and accepts HH:MM:SS as your criteria (as well as the usual file-size delineations, etc)

BingleyJoe

@DigitalNoise: I've heard mpgtx (PPC) works, although I've never used it.

I use QuickTime Pro, myself.

BingleyJoe

It would be nice to have a video splitter that splits into 10 minute or less chunks (for YouTube), or 90 second or less chunks (for flickr).

tyojohn

@DigitalNoise: I see what you did there. ;)

Also, I would like an answer to this question as well!

phoenix

But I want a BananaJoiner!

Seriously though, anyone know any good, free program for *joining* AVI's? You know for those *cough* videos you find online?

DigitalNoise

'user defined chunks' is a pretty loose description of what you can actually do. The user can choose a percentage of the overall movie to split. Not very useful if you need a clip from the middle. I suggest coughing up the $20 and buying avi splitter. Much more useful and has exact user defined splitting points available.

Ex_EA_Slave