Newbie question about joining videos in different formats

[bobrov]

Ок, I have two videos in different formats.

Video1:


Video2:


I usually join such files by software like Videocharge.
But since videos are in different formats, Videocharge uses conversion and it takes some time.

I want to speed up the process. As far as I understand, when videos have the same video and audio stream, the files could be joined quickly without any recompression.

My first video is short and it won't take much time to process it. Are there any ways to convert it so the output video/audio streams match the second video?

I know how to convert videos in virtualdub using default presets, but I have no idea what to start from in this situation.

[Cornucopia]

"Processing" = Conversion. You're going to need to recompress no matter what.

So the act will probably take the same slow amount of time whether you do it in Videocharge or Vdub (with subsequent joining). In fact, since joining isn't always perfect (because of possible other minute differences, including the I-frame cadence), it probably would take LESS time to just convert it (and Assemble Edit it together) than it would to do the other way.

However....Videocharge???

There are plenty better conversion apps than that.
Procoder, Squeeze, Badaboom, CleanerXL, Handbrake, Super, FormatFactory, RiverPast, TotalVideoConverter, MPEGStreamClip, etc.
And don't forget AVISynth frameserving into a specific encoder...

Scott

[bobrov]

2Cornucopia:

Thank you for your info.
I still suffer the problem of slow video encoding.

I really liked Badaboom you mentioned - never expected the GPU based encoding could be so fast. Nevertheless, this software is not the editing tool and you can't easily join videos encoded by this program.

Are there any other GPU or other hardware based (and fast!!!) solutions for video editing/encoding?

[hech54]

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