Batch method of adding the same clip at the end of a large amount of videos

[rasterboy]

Hello all.

I have a folder with 1000 different videos.
I want to merge these 1000 videos with a simple clip. The clip is identical for all the videos and is to be added to the end of the video.The clip contains the credits for the video. Encoding is not necessary, if they can be "baked" together without encoding then I will save some time. It does not matter which format the 1000 videos are in. I can do them in wmv, avi, mpeg, whatever. I need to process thousands of videos every day, so a batch method is needed.

To clarify:
Video A + clip Z
Video B + clip Z
Video C + clip Z

I suppose this could be done by some complicated spell in FFMPEG. I am unable to figure out the syntax though. Also interested in software that could handle this for me.

I'm a noob at this so if I placed this question wrong, sry about that. Thanks in advance.

[hech54]

encoding is not necessary

90% of the time it IS more than necessary....it's mandatory.

[rasterboy]

encoding is not necessary

90% of the time it IS more than necessary....it's mandatory.

Thanks. OK, understood. Encoding is necessary. I am 1% less noob now

[rasterboy]

Shameless BUMP

I would assume that automatically adding credits or an ad to masses of clips would be something that thousands of people would find use for. Yet I find myself with a how-to question that not even Google can give an answer to. Why isn't this a feature in most video editing programs? Do I smell badly? I just don't get it. Can anyone help?

EDIT: When googling this problem I am using keywords such as "bulk" together with "merge" "mass" "batch" "video" "clips" and similar. Still no useful results. Most result pages just show me how to merge all the files in the folder with each other. That is not what I want.

[smrpix]

Shameless BUMP

I would assume that automatically adding credits or an ad to masses of clips would be something that thousands of people would find use for.

You may want to rethink this assumption. Thousands? Credits change from show to show and ads are targeted.

(I know, this doesn't help you get any closer to a solution.)

[altarvic]

Sony Vegas Pro + Transcoder from Vegasaur extension is a solution (expensive solution)

[_Al_]

So do you already have 1000 videos in different formats?
Or will you have them and you are looking for a specific format because you need to append credits at the end later?

[rasterboy]

So do you already have 1000 videos in different formats?
Or will you have them and you are looking for a specific format because you need to append credits at the end later?

Thanks for answering. The formats are irrelevant. I can make them in the same format if need be. Let me break it down:

I have 1000 clips of different length with different content. I want to add the same credits to all 1000 clips. Suppose clip Z contains the credits.

clip A merges with clip Z
clip B merges with clip Z
clip C merges with clip Z

I want to batch it, cause I don't want to do it manually, 1000 times over.

[smrpix]

AviSynth Batch Scripter

For arguments sake:

assume clip A is PAL DV
assume clip B is NTSC Mpeg2
assume clip C is 24fps AVC

Do you conform all of them to clip Z mp4, AAC?

[rasterboy]

AviSynth Batch Scripter

Thanks. Are you 100% that AviSynth Batch Scripter can do this? I want to be absolutely sure before I start because learning scripting stuff makes my head ache. Do you have an example syntax by any chance

[_Al_]

You need to have them in one format because if you join clips you have to have them in the same format and some even with the same parameters or almost the same. So practically would be a good idea to get your clips into one format and then to append credits. But what format ? You do not say for what you use all of this. And there might be other solutions, for example for web you just create player that runs a clip after any video that was selected ...

[rasterboy]

AviSynth Batch Scripter

For arguments sake:

assume clip A is PAL DV
assume clip B is NTSC Mpeg2
assume clip C is 24fps AVC

Do you conform all of them to clip Z mp4, AAC?

Yeah, I can reencode all the clips to be the same fps and format before I start the batch process.

[rasterboy]

You do not say for what you use all of this. And there might be other solutions, for example for web you just create player that runs a clip after any video that was selected ...

I'm gonna upload thousands of gaming videos to Youtube, and I want the end credits to show which gaming site the clips come from.

[smrpix]

Avisynth Batch Scripter will allow you to match framerate and raster size and attach the clips together, but you're still going to have an issue with the initial DirectShowSource(), AVISource() or FFMPegSource() line.

I suppose you could batch everything FIRST to match your titles using either an ffmpeg command line (or something like Winff), but its a two-step process at the very least and a lot of it is liable to look awful.

_AI_'s solution is more elegant.

[smrpix]

Slightly OT: how are you planning to batch upload 1000 videos to YouTube at a time?

[rasterboy]

Slightly OT: how are you planning to batch upload 1000 videos to YouTube at a time?

Software called Mass Video Blaster.