How to merge two clips?

[adrianle]

A friend captured a 15 minute video on his LINUX system that chunked the video into 1GB files.. so the video is in 3 different clips! I can't find a way in VideoStudio 8 to merge the 3 clips BACK into one long clip? (I'll be needing to clip that long video into chapters later)
HELP?

[Ron P.]

Hi,

What format are the clips? You could just import all three clips to the storyboard, then without any editing, create a video file, same as first clip. That will render all three into one video file.

Ron P.

[adrianle]

Hi.. the clips are all AVI... how do I re-save to the one file?

[Ron P.]

With all 3 clips in the timeline, go to Share-->Create Video File. Choose "Same as project settings". Of course name the video, then click on options and make sure Smart Rendering is checked. Click Save, now it will create a video that has the 3 clips combined into 1.

What you have open to "join" all 3 clips is just a "project". If you want to save your project, you may, however isn't necessary, unless you want to do something different with all three clips later on. You are not importing the video clips into the project. They are just thumnail representations of the video clips. So when you render the new video, it is not changing the original clips.

Ron P.

[Ken Berry]

Vidoman - hope you don't mind if I elucidate very slightly on your last sentence because it is potentially misleading to an inexperienced user. You said: "So when you render the new video, it is not changing the original clips. " I would simply add: "In other words, you will now have 4 clips on your computer -- the original three, unchanged, plus the new composite one made up of all the other three."

[Ron P.]

No I don't mind at all Ken,

I guess I should have been a bit more clear, I was just thinking that the OP would be concerned that editing the 3 clips together would be altering the original ones..

Thank you

Ron P.