There actually is an app like this I used years ago before I had my GoPro, It was a perfect and simple one-trick-pony utility, but it's so old and hasn't been updated in so long that it no longer works with newer MP4 formats, so, unfortunately, it's useless now, but it was the perfect joining app: īut thanks for the tip.
This is what I'd prefer, either an option in the "GoPro Quik" desktop app to join clips, or preferably a separate software app/utility where I can drag my clips into a window, it sorts them all in order, and with a click, a joined file (with no recompression) gets exported. I'm looking for more functionality in my camera, not something that will cripple other features.Īnd I understand your note that it's "only through post-processing that the split/chaptered files can be joined." This makes sense and is perfectly fine. Yet the files are valid and accessible using a SD Card reader, and have been tested to work in many tools." Unfortunately, this makes the feature a deal-breaker. But right before I was about to do the QR code, I read the "Warning" which said, "Warning: Larger chapters may not work everywhere in the ecosystem, even the camera will not playback or USB transfer files larger than 4GB in this current firmware.
I upgraded the labs firmware and was this close to doing the QR code to enable the 12GB feature, and while this wouldn't solve the problem of being able to turn a one, two, or three-hour extended capture into one giant video file, the slightly longer clips/chapters would still be welcome. How it should work is that the camera should flag start and stop times, and the Quik app should just automatically see which clips belong to each start/stop recording and stitch them back together on import. It's irritating that GoPro designed their camera to break up your one long video into separate files, but offers no simple, one-click way to fix/stitch them back together. I wish GoPro would just make this utility, or incorporate it into the Quik app. If anyone knows of a simple mp4 joining/stitching utility for the Mac. If an app has to recompress video, it takes a long time to process.
The main reason for un-recompressed process is that, without recompressing, it will stitch/process the files quickly. Unfortunately, this particular app doesn't work and just crashes or spits out a corrupt file, so it's useless. I'm actually looking for something like this link and screenshot below, where it's a simple window, and I select all my clips, drag them into the window, click join, and it spits out one seamless, un-recompressed file with all of the clips joined back together. I don't want to have to burn time manually managing/editing the 20+ clips that the GoPro camera breaks up back into one file, and especially don't want the clips recompressed. What I'm looking for is a simple utility to stitch together all of the broken GoPro clips back into one long video file, which I will then bring into an editor to edit.
However, all of your links reference editing programs, which I already have an don't need. Please make an option in Quik, or make another standalone utility app, where I can select all of these split clips and quickly stitch them back together into the one long video that I initially shot. I don't want to have to manage a bunch of randomly split short clips.
I do want to edit my video, but using a professional editor and my one long video file. Or, ideally, just check a box before importing into Quik and have the clips get joined as it imports. with no recompressing so that the one long video gets assembled quickly and losslessly.
I just want to select my clips and click a button "Join" and a full video gets stitched together, in order, from the clips. I don't want to edit these, I don't want to do any work just to join these clips back together. I'm going to almost always be shooting long videos, and all I want is a quick one or two-click way to join the clips back into the one long video that I shot. I got the GoPro Quik app expecting this would be the solution (why did I have to make an account just to use the app?), and found that, nope, it doesn't easily join the clips. Fine, whatever (I'd rather this be a preference in the camera to split or not split video), but how is there not a way to easily join the clips back together when offloading from the camera?!?! The only thing I could find on the web is that it's to prevent corruption from destroying an entire video (that I guess splitting them means only one small clip will get corrupted). I'm kind of pissed after buying the Hero 8 to find that my long videos inexplicably get diced up into a multitude of short video clips.