Suggestions for multi-part home movie?

[casminkey 19]

Every year I get the video of my daughters dance recital. They split up each dance/song up into a different file, so I have like 15 files. In years past, I would combine them all into 1 large file, add it to Emby for family members to enjoy and add in the manual chapters so they can navigate accordingly. But it's a real PITA to do all that.

Looking to see if anyone has any better suggestions? I don't want to add 15 new "movies" to my library. I'd prefer not to add a totally new library. Maybe there's an option out there that I'm not aware of?

As a side question - if I end up joining all the parts into 1 large movie, any suggestions on how to easily do that? I think I've always added them into iMovie and then exported it but I generally don't have access to a Mac (there's one at my work I can use).

Thanks for all your fine help in advance!

[Happy2Play 9781]

9 minutes ago, casminkey said:

Every year I get the video of my daughters dance recital. They split up each dance/song up into a different file, so I have like 15 files. In years past, I would combine them all into 1 large file, add it to Emby for family members to enjoy and add in the manual chapters so they can navigate accordingly. But it's a real PITA to do all that.

Looking to see if anyone has any better suggestions? I don't want to add 15 new "movies" to my library. I'd prefer not to add a totally new library. Maybe there's an option out there that I'm not aware of?

As a side question - if I end up joining all the parts into 1 large movie, any suggestions on how to easily do that? I think I've always added them into iMovie and then exported it but I generally don't have access to a Mac (there's one at my work I can use).

Thanks for all your fine help in advance!

Emby's current file stacking method would not work as it is limited to 9 parts.

Movie Naming | #split-video-files-file-stacking

As for Joining files this should help

 

[tedfroop21 86]

Shutter Encoder - available for a small donation to the author will join files in many formats,  without re-coding.  It merges a wide variety formats.  It also merges multiple files on one operation.  I think the most files I have merged in one go is 9.

It also offers many other features like audio remuxing, and some video editing features.

Unfortunately,  you need to go to MKV to add chapters.  

That would likely cut it to three operations.  Merge, re-code, and add chapters.

Edited July 2, 2024 by tedfroop21

[Neminem 1519]

I would try with TV show library.

Folder name : Dance recital.

Season Folder : 2024

Filename : Dance recital - S2024E01 etc.

Edit metadata as you like.

[Happy2Play 9781]

1 hour ago, jaycedk said:

I would try with TV show library.

Folder name : Dance recital.

Season Folder : 2024

Filename : Dance recital - S2024E01 etc.

Edit metadata as you like.

Yes you would want its own library and disable all metadata providers.

[casminkey 19]

10 hours ago, jaycedk said:

I would try with TV show library.

Folder name : Dance recital.

Season Folder : 2024

Filename : Dance recital - S2024E01 etc.

Edit metadata as you like.

Not crazy about adding a new library but that's not a bad option.

Thank you!

[rbjtech 5284]

Use mkvtoolnix (free) - add each part as an additional file to the first part.    in Output/chapters - change to 'One chapter for each appended file'

It then create a single MKV file, with all the appended files automatically created as chapters.   It should take minutes ...

 

[pwhodges 2012]

As above; you can then use the chapter editor in the same software to give titles to the chapters instead of just numbers.

Paul