Joining two video files

[gracemichelle]

Just wondering is there anything simple out there that can allow me to join two video files together. I don't plan to do any cutting or editing just placing one video file after another. I have been using aviutl but that takes up to an hour to get the job done. Anything maybe less than half an hour or so?

[Baldrick]

If the video files have exact same properties(resolution, frame rate, codecs, etc) can you join without converting using for example avidemux, file->open, file->append, video->copy, audio->copy, save as a new mkv/mp4/avi. Or join mkv files with mkvmergegui. Or ts/mts files with tsmuxer.

Or else must you reconvert (and it takes much longer like aviutl).

[videobruger]

Or you could convert one of them to get identical properties.

[MaverickTse]

up to an hour?

What are the resolution of your videos and how long are they?

If you are on a Core i5 or i7, you can use the included QSVEnc encoder and get a 5~10X speedup
(Quality is not as good as x264 however.)

[Baldrick]

Or you could convert one of them to get identical properties.

It might not be that simple to get all properties identical.

[MaverickTse]

The smart editing thing (for anything except AVI) has quite a lot of limitations.
If you use it on some TV-broadcast recordings, it is almost certain that the resultant file will be corrupted/invalid.

Just search "Smart editing" on this forum and you will find loads of threads on it (and you shall notice its problem.)

[pepegot1]

Video to Video does more than join videos and it is a very good free program.