I recently needed to (combine / join / merge) 24 separate video clips. This seemingly easy task turned out to be more difficult than I thought. I tried several paid Apps and wasn’t satisfied with the quality of the final video.
After doing some research, I found out that the best video merger app is actually right under my nose – QuickTime Player. It is free, easy to use and produces videos in superb quality. Here I will show you how you can merge videos, movies clips using QuickTime Player.
- On your Mac, launch the QuickTime Player located in the “Application” folder.
- Open the first video clip using QuickTime Player. A QuickTime Player window opens.
- Select the rest of the videos clips, drag and drop them onto the open QuickTime Player window.
- You will see all the video clips are arranged at the bottom of the QuickTime Player window.
- You can re-arrange video clips by dragging each clip to the left or right.
- Once you’re satisfied with the order of all video clips, choose “File->Export” to save all the opening video clips as one.
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doesn’t work…keep getting message: The operation could not be completed An unknown error occurred (-12780)
Most people’s computer get his message don’t waste your time
Thanks a lot
Great tip, that answered exactly what I was trying to solve. Cheers.
It seems to work, but the screen goes black as soon as I drop the second file (mp4) in, audio works fine, but…
We thought that it was not working anymore but I missed a step even though we read it 3 times. Thanks.
Now we can record with QuickTime, restart and continue to record in great quality then merge them.
Before, we would record with a shaky iPad and iPhone.
Does it work with any format? I’m trying with mp4 files, but when I drop the files on the player window nothing happens
I just did it with mp4 files and it worked. I did have to drag the other video files down to the pop-up menu bar that appears over the video to play, stop, rewind, etc. Then then I saw where I can place the added video.
can you combine vertical and horizontal clips without one of them being cropped?
Just followed your instructions. The drop-menu language was a little different in my version, but it was as simple as it could be. SO HELPFUL — thank you!
Good!
It brings up export when asked to save but does not export
You rock! This is so great!
Also, put a shirt on before you record videos with Quicktime Player.
Thank you so much! I was having such a hard time merging vids when the answer was right there on my screen!
easy to join the videos but it cuts have of the side off. When I look at them singly no issues but after having joined them, they have the right hand side practically cut off. Why?
I get the same on my OS X. The last 10 seconds of the last video is blank while the audio plays.
YEEEEEEZZZZZZ! Thank you so much 😀
So simple but couldnt fint it.
Thanks a lot.
Good one