Nick RobinsonVerified account

hey, if i wanted to add a short 30-second clip to an hour-long video encoded in h.264... is there a way to do that without spending 80 minutes exporting the whole entire video in Premiere all over again? asking for a friend

@Aubron yeah, both videos will be comin' outta Premiere with the exact same settings... is this still a bad idea if that's the case? (i'm sliding in an extra 30-second clip near the end but BEFORE the annotation end slate, so it's sadly not just straightforward concatenation)

damb. i guess i'll just opt for a full re-export, seems like the least painful option

you should be able to cut the beginning into a separate video, the end into a separate video, and then combine them all. i did this a few months ago with ffmpeg. if avidemux does this it should be possible too

My question though, is that really doing the append? Or is it just reencoding all three files into one (with additional loss with the files being re-encoded)

well if i test it out with this hour-long video, we should be able to answer pretty quickly based on whether it takes 10 seconds or 70 minutes, right? lol