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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)

Personal opinion still: you’ll spend more than 80 minutes figuring out the ffmpeg command to do it, once you do if your encoding settings put much timing info into the file ffmpeg will just reencode anyway (all premiere encoder / media encoder is is a wrapper around ffmpeg)

using avidemux GUI would avoid the need to know the ffmpeg command line,it also tells you which frames are I frames so you can just cut at the I frame and insert the desired clip without the need to reencode so it would be quicker,only limitation is needing to cut on the I frame

i'm actually 90% done now - i've got two files (one 0:49:35 long, another 0:04:12 long) that i need to concatenate. i wanna use avidemux, but it seems like avidemux outputs files as .MKV, which YouTube can't take... what should i do next? (thanks for yall's help btw!!)