Append Multiple MOV Files and Edit Video

Appending MOV files efficiently can be a challenge. The only "safe" and easy way without destroying the video or the sound is done by using Avidemux which is a free video editing tool for Linux.

Here is my modified image-convert bash script used for the appending all .MOV files in a folder and have the full video ready for editing in the Avidemux graphical user interface (GUI).

#!/bin/bash

#Inspired by http://scienceoss.com/bash-script-convert-images/

#This script will convert images to a smaller compressed format. The output files will use the APPENDNAME.

STARTID=1

for f in `ls -tr *.MOV` #sort on timestamp -t and recursive order -r ltr?

do

    if [ $STARTID = 1 ]; then 

        result=`echo ${result} --load ${f}` #Load the first file name in the folder

  else

        result=`echo ${result} --append ${f}` #Append all the other file names in the folder

    fi

    

    let STARTID+=1

done

avidemux3_qt4 $result