OpenShot Video Editor

Combining 2 videos without rendering codecs

Asked by Xavier Guillot

Hello,

I've just tried OpenShot program and I'm impressed by all nice features already available.

But I wonder if there is a very simple option, that I would miss if not :

Is it possible to mix different videos which have exactly same dimensions, resolution, codecs, width/heigh/bitrate/profile/level/depth : I mean just concatenate / join them, without rendering codecs.

Ex: video A.avi / mkv, 9 minutes and video B.avi / mkv, 15 minutes (which can be 2 parts extracted of a global film or 2 different extracts of TV serie episodes)

I'd like to join video A and B to one avi / mkv video file which would read A+B following automatically (perhaps with a transition effect if possible), for a total lenght of 24 minutes.

In Avidemux for example, it is very easy : open video A, add video B, and register, it takes only a few seconds...

Is this possible in Openshot, or do we have to choose codecs and re-render, which takes longer time, uses CPU etc... ?

As OpenShot is much more complete for video editing, flexible and GUI-easy than Avidemux, I'd like to switch on it, but I need this very basic feature for concatenation

I've asked the same question on Pitivi's mailing list a few months ago, but this feature is not implemented for now.

Thanks in advance for your help. Best regards,

Xavier

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Olivier Girard (eolinwen) said : 		#1

Hello Xavier,

All is possible under one thing, we have not yet the possibility to export without done a render.

Mix two videos is so simple in Openshot.
Put the first video (A) on the track 1, the second video (B) on the track 2 , add a transition if you want and that 's all.
Check with the preview,or moving the play head if all is okay. And after export the film.
A trick for checking the transition between the two pieces. Put your play head at the end of the first piece and drag the second clip near of her, it will be grab automatically and you will have a perfect synchronization in this two.
 clips.

You have the manual for showing/learning how to works Openshot. It is available in two means : with the shortcut F1 in Openshot or/and you have a htlm version here : http://www.openshotusers.com/help/fr/

You have the forum of our community here with a French section : http://openshotusers.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=18

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Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24) said : 		#2

Hello,

Thanks a lot for your quick and complete answer, I'll look at that, and good continuation !