Any Video Joiner at Mac App Store analyse

Does not work for mp4 files recorded by a sony camcorder.

This program is exceptionally easy to use. it’s perfect for what I need it to do. I usually end up with 4 to 5 clips on our iPad of the same event. I open Any Video Joiner, select the clips, click Join Video, and moments later I have one joined video to import into iTunes for viewing on our Apple TV. And the customer service is outstanding. I had an issue with the right perspective being preserved. I submitted the issue to the developer, and within a few days had full resolution! I highly recommend this App!

With the latest Yosemite version and 16 GB of RAM, I have used this app several times to join 3 to 7 .mov and 5 to 12 .mp4 files. It works much more quickly than I expected - a few seconds to finish instead of several minutes actually. The final joined files resulted in videos of up to an hour in total length and the playback quality is consistent with the original separate files. One rule to remember - the app joins the files in the order you tell it to, so if you line them up 1, 3, 5, 2, 4, 6 that is the sequence in the resulting full video. It’s easy to arrange them correctly before joining, so the app is not to blame for this kind of error. I tested joining 50+ .mp4 files into one ridiculously long video (6 hours!) and the app crashed. It ran perfectly with all the reasonable numbers of files I threw at it. One suggestion - the “total output duration” calculates in seconds, and I found 7791.731445 seconds pretty hard to get my head around. I’d prefer a way to convert thousands of seconds into hours:minutes:seconds within the app. Otherwise, it’s an easy to use app with very good results. Thanks also for the very fair price.

The application does not work as intended, and is useless. The audio appears to be joined correctly together, but becomes out of sync with the video after the first join. The video becomes sped up, and the audio stays normal. By the second join the sped-up video has ended and the audio keeps on playing over a frozen frame. The second half of the finished product is just audio. A complete waste of money.

I took high resolution video on a Canon Vixia HFR400, not realizing that it was splitting the recording up into separate files every 4GB (approximately every 15 minutes). I was able to split the video into smaller clips as I wanted with QuickTime Player (free on Macs). (It wasnt extremely clear how to save a single clip to a new file, but you could delete the unneeded parts, duplicate to a new file, then same to the same format it was originally filmed in, then undo to get back the other clips you wanted for a different file.) QuickTime Player could also combine clips, but then would only save them as .mov rather than .mp4, and only in a lower framerate than the original recording. I researched other free options for joining videos but all had mixed reviews, including some complaints of the programs containing malware. This program did exactly what it said it would do, which was join the two .mp4 files (which were originally filmed on the same device with the same settings) without transcoding, and thus there was no change in quality and it merged the files very quickly. I was also pleasantly surprised that I could not hear any audio glitching in the merged files, which was a surprising bonus. (QuickTime Players merged .mov file had an audio glitch.) But, the merge was not perfect -- there is a video glitch where the two clips were merged. Not sure if theres any software that could have avoided it. Overall, this is not something I need to do very often, so was glad there was a curated app in the App Store that could do it for $5.

Description is very misleading “Will join most file types”. It will not join widely used formats such as .avi & .mp4. Seeking a refund, I have contacted the company but they have not responded.