Joining Clips with VirtualDub

[JimboUK]

This is handy for those making videos from FRAPS clips, either because you have the free version with its 30 second clip limit or you have the full version and FRAPS has chopped it at just under 4GB for reasons unknown.

Start Virtualdub.
Open your first clip. (File>Open Video File)
Move the slider right to the end.
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Then go to file> Append AVI segment and select your second clip.
Do that with all the clips remembering to move the slider to the end each time.
When your done adding clips select Direct stream copy under video, do the same under audio.
Then under file select save AVI and give it a name.

It will create a new file and not remove your clips so be sure to have plenty of space.

[LHammonds]

Thanks for the tutorial, it is now on the pinned topic.

[Olurum]

Another trick is to rename the individual files. If you have 5 files, you can rename them to 01.avi, 02.avi, 03.avi, 04.avi, 05.avi. You now only need to load in the 01.avi and then append 02.avi. Video files 03, 04 and 05 will automatically be added to the end in order (providing they are all in the same folder). This is useful if you want to join a large amount of video files, you just need to rename them (which I find easier than appending them one by one).