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In this piece, we show you how to Combine Videos in QuickTime. Mac users will find QuickTime Player to be a very useful tool. It is more than just a media player because it can also convert, record, and do other things. You can use it to play movies and music, make and edit pictures, record your screen and sound, and more. We’ve already written a few pieces about some of its hidden features. If you want to know more information about this Visit Official Apple Support site.
For instance, you can use it to record sounds on your Mac, show the screen of your iPhone or iPad to your Mac, and so on. Today, we’ll show you how to use the free version of QuickTime Player on a Mac to put together several video clips into one file. Also, you might want to make a long video or music clip that you want to watch without having to deal with the annoying settings. No matter what the situation is, you need to find the right program to combine videos on a Mac.
How to Combine Videos in QuickTime
- Open the first video you want to add other videos to using QuickTime Player.
- Drag and drop on the the video the other clip (or clips) you want to merge with it.
- If, for some reason, this doesn’t work out for you, click Edit > Add Clip to End from the menu bar instead. Then, select the footage you’d like to merge with the first one. Click Choose Media to open QuickTime Player’s editing mode.
- Now, you’ll see a pop up named Untitled – Edited, with two (or more) videos side-by-side in the dock at the bottom. You make a few quick edits here.
Edit Merged Videos Using QuickTime Player
- Add more: Drag and drop more clips to the dock to add more videos to the mini-project.
- Order footage: Drag and drop clips to arrange them into the order you want.
- Scrub forwards/backward: Hover over the progress bar and drag it forward or backward to play the clip from different points.
- Export in different qualities: When exporting, you can choose what quality of your video’s output.
- Select multiple clips: You can select multiple clips at once by holding the Cmd key and then choose to either move them in sequence or delete them altogether.
What is QuickTime?
QuickTime is software that lets you play movie files on your computer. It was made by Apple and first came out on December 2, 1991. QuickTime is offered to Apple and IBM compatible users who are running a compatible operating system, such as Microsoft Windows or any Macintosh operating system. QuickTime is often used to play.MOV files on computers that are compatible with IBM.
The picture shows a computer with the Apple QuickTime program open and running. QuickTime is an extensible multimedia framework that Apple used to make. It lets you play, stream, encode, and convert a wide range of digital media types. QuickTime is also the name of the video player application QuickTime Player, which is built into macOS and could be downloaded on Windows until 2016.