Batch processing - joining m2v ac3 to create mpg1

[thebtrain]

OK - I'm not even sure if there's a tool that will do this, but I'll ask anyway.

I've basically got over 100 individual clips, each consisting of an m2v file and an ac3 file. Each video and audio file have identical names with the exception of the extensions, of course.

What I need to do is combine/join those separate clips and make new mpg or wmv clips.

I would REALLY prefer not to do it all from the timeline of premiere again, so was wondering if there is any tool that can do this in a batch processing environment.

Thanks in advance!

[Soopafresh]

No problemo, as long as the file names don't have spaces in them. Gimme a sec to write out the script.

Edit - Here you go.
mux.zip

Make sure there's a 1:1 correspondence between the video and audio names. Again, no spaces in the names.

Place the 3 files that are in the zip into the same folder as your m2v and ac3 files. Double Click Mux.bat to run

file1.m2v and file1.ac3 will mux into file1.mpg

[thebtrain]

Many thanks for that - much appreciated.

P.S. Unforunately a lot of the files do have spaces in them, so I'll try to work around it somehow...

[Soopafresh]

See the instructions above - I was editing at the same time you were reading


Waitasec - I might have a program to remove file spaces.

[thebtrain]

yep - have taken out previous questions.

haven't tried it yet (have to move it to another machine), but is there any way of setting dimension parameters?

[Soopafresh]

Dimension parameters as far as 720x480 720x576 etc? http://www.wincesoft.de/html/dvdpatcher.html


Here's the little app which will remove the spaces from your file name:

1) You MUST create a folder on your C drive called mpgfiles

2) Copy your files with the spaces in them to c:\mpgfiles

3) Copy the Removespc.exe into the same folder and click to start.

removespc.zip

[thebtrain]

Wow - this is service. Thanks so much.

Yes, that's the dimensions I was talking about. The video files are 720x576 at the moment, and I want them to be a small size, say 352x288 or something like that.

Do you know if anything like that's possible within the script?

[Soopafresh]

Ah, gotcha. You might have to re-encode to do that, but I dunno for sure. Try this on one of your MPG files. If it doesn't work, it is easy to batch re-encode using ffmpeg. Do you want PAL or NTSC format?




http://www.wincesoft.de/html/dvdpatcher.html


To convert (and mux at the same time), save the following into a batch file. Call it Process.bat

for %%a in (*.m2v) do ffmpeg -i "%%a" -i "%%~na.ac3" -acodec copy -vcodec mpeg2video -s 352x288 -sameq -y "%%~na.mpg"


Actually, no need. Here it is with a copy of ffmpeg



process.zip


Try it on a single m2v and ac3 file (one that has no spaces in it)