How to Join or Combine Avi Video Files

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Posted July 15, 2009 at 7:54pm by iClarified

These are instructions on how to join/combine avi video files using QuickTime for Mac OS X. If QuickTime can't read your avi file then you may need to install the Perian component from here.

Step One
Double click one of the video files that you would like to join to open it in QuickTime.

Step Two
Move the scrubber to the position in the clip where the other video will be inserted.

Step Three
Drag another clip into the QuickTime window to insert it before the scrubber.

Step Four
Select Save As from the File menu

Step Five
Enter a name for your the combined video file then click the Save button.

Step Six
QuickTime will now save the joined video.

Step Seven
After a couple minutes the avi video files will be joined and ready for playback.

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fadhil - March 8, 2013 at 2:51pm

old post but still success for Quicktime X on OSX. Thankyou !

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t11chb - March 31, 2010 at 12:24pm

Open Terminal: cat filename1.avi filename2.avi > finaloutput.avi Job done

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Bernk - December 1, 2012 at 11:16am

Wow. I can not believe this works on something like an AVI file. Amazing! Thank you SO much for sharing that. Why do all these apps even exist? Jesus.

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nathasm - July 15, 2009 at 10:07pm

Or you can use this script I wrote: #!/bin/sh set -x if [ -z "$1" ]; then echo =e "\nUsage: `basename $0` Base_Movie_Name_To_Be_Joined" exit 1 fi cat $1* > _$1_.avi mencoder -forceidx -oac copy -ovc copy _$1_.avi -o $1.avi rm _$1_.avi So you run it like: ./join_avi.sh Video which will combine Video* into 1 avi file and re-encodes it preserving it in divx format.

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iamse7en - July 15, 2009 at 8:35pm

Uh, you should also note that the user needs to have Perian installed in order to open a .avi file properly in QuickTime.

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iClarified - July 15, 2009 at 8:54pm

done!

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iamse7en - July 15, 2009 at 8:34pm

Screw this method. I don't want it to be a .mov file. I have used avi joiner in the passed, but it's screwy, so I just convert and join them together in visualhub, or join them together in SimpleMovieX.

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Nathaniel - July 15, 2009 at 10:04pm

This just changes the container to mov it does NOT re-encode the file. Who cares what the extension is?

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