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So I know theres free software called AviSplit that will join multiple AVI files into a single file, and I have started to use this to join some of a clients video clips.
Let me give a bit of background. I captured a TON of DV for this guy who wanted each of the segments of the tape as separate AVI files. The final folder was a folder with filenames like this:
{SESSION NAME}-{TAPE NUMBER}-{CLIP NUMBER}.avi
The files are all in one folder now, and there are from 67 sessions, 4-5 tapes per session, and approximately 45-60 clips per tape. The folder contains 15355 video clips.
Ridiculous right? I'm not even sure why he wanted them split in the first place.
Now, I spent a LONG time cutting these up and batch encoding them in Premiere with the Xvid video format. Months. And since I didnt have room to keep the uncompressed DV around, there's really no easy way to re-encode.
Going through and manually joining each one with AviSplit is going to take forever.
What i would like is a program that can automatically add the clips based on rules or some kind of adaptive import that will import based on a certain trigger. For example, remember xbox media center? if you had a 2 part AVI, and they were named similarly but had a Part 1 and a Part 2, it would load those up automatically into a playlist and play them successively? I want something like that, but that will add them to a batch join. KMPlayer already kinda does this. But it cant join avis.
If anyone has any idea of what I am talking about, please let me know. I will gladly pay for the software considering it will save me weeks, if not months, of work in recombining this nightmare. But free works too, considering I am poor now.
I already tried doing a binary join using cygwin (allows linux commands on windows) and perl pipes, setting up a couple of shell scripts... looked promising, the resulting AVIs were the correct size but only the first clip was there, everything else was black.
Let me give a bit of background. I captured a TON of DV for this guy who wanted each of the segments of the tape as separate AVI files. The final folder was a folder with filenames like this:
{SESSION NAME}-{TAPE NUMBER}-{CLIP NUMBER}.avi
The files are all in one folder now, and there are from 67 sessions, 4-5 tapes per session, and approximately 45-60 clips per tape. The folder contains 15355 video clips.
Ridiculous right? I'm not even sure why he wanted them split in the first place.
Now, I spent a LONG time cutting these up and batch encoding them in Premiere with the Xvid video format. Months. And since I didnt have room to keep the uncompressed DV around, there's really no easy way to re-encode.
Going through and manually joining each one with AviSplit is going to take forever.
What i would like is a program that can automatically add the clips based on rules or some kind of adaptive import that will import based on a certain trigger. For example, remember xbox media center? if you had a 2 part AVI, and they were named similarly but had a Part 1 and a Part 2, it would load those up automatically into a playlist and play them successively? I want something like that, but that will add them to a batch join. KMPlayer already kinda does this. But it cant join avis.
If anyone has any idea of what I am talking about, please let me know. I will gladly pay for the software considering it will save me weeks, if not months, of work in recombining this nightmare. But free works too, considering I am poor now.
I already tried doing a binary join using cygwin (allows linux commands on windows) and perl pipes, setting up a couple of shell scripts... looked promising, the resulting AVIs were the correct size but only the first clip was there, everything else was black.
