Joining MPEGs to make a DVD

MothballsWallet

Hi everyone,

Many thanks for all of the suggestions.

What my dad did was use his still camera like a video camera, shooting a sequence (and none of them are longer than a couple of minutes), then stopping or pausing between them.

He thought it'd be like a tape camcorder where you can pause/stop after shooting some footage and then continue later, and it can play back as one movie.

Thanks again,

MbW

bat999

@MothballsWallet
Well, there's two feasible suggestions.
Donnie says join the Quicktime files manually using QuickTime Pro.
And ABH says use 'Easy Video Joiner' to join the MPEG files.

Take your pick.

Donnie

No need to join them at all. Just use DVD Flick to create a DVD Video disc.

The joining suggestion was there in case some of them needed to be joined. I can't see any reason why they would all need to be joined. If it were one long sequence he wouldn't have pressed the stop/pause button.

So here is my suggestion. Use DVD Flick to create a DVD Video disc.

sillygoose

I use an excellent program called videoredo plus. Its designed for quick editing of MPG2, it just does frame accurate cut, paste, delete, join etc. Does not recode but will output to a single file. I absolutely know for a fact it does exactly what the op wants, when you go to open a file you can select a whole bunch and it will ask if you want to combine or join. If you pick combine it treats all the clips like one continuous movie. You can then edit and save out as one movie file. (in same format the original was)

My program is registered so fully functional, you could try downloading the trial version but I am sorry I don't know what the limits on the trial version are (if its a time limit you can do your join before it expires)

http://www.videoredo.com/en/ProductPlus.htm

MothballsWallet

Got it sorted - I used Ease Video Joiner to join the MPEGs together, and I'll use DVDFlick to make the DVD.

I couldn't use just DVDFlick because you can only put 99 files onto a DVD and my dad had recorded 172 shorter segments, so I had to join them together first before DVDFlick could make the DVD for me.

Donnie

Only 99?