How to Merge Video Clips on VLC without Hassle

“How do I combine two videos side-by-side as a single video in VLC? ”

“Is it possible to merge larger video files using VLC media player?”

 

- From Quora

Many people are confused that how to merge clips. This kind of problem is a common one. There might have some solutions on the Internet. But the operations might not be described as simple as this article. Let’s continue, you will know how to join different videos step by step via VLC.

Part 1. How to combine several videos via VLC Media Player?

VLC Media Player is a powerful multimedia player. Except for most of the multimedia files, it still supports to play various videos, like DVDs, Webcams, Devices, and multiple streaming protocols. VLC can launch on all platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, iOS, Android, etc. Most important of all, it is totally free without ads and limitations. 

Steps to combine clips via VLC:

Step 1: Download and install VLC Media Player on the official website. After that, run VLC. Import the videos you want to merge. (Click the “Media” button and then select the “Open Multiple Files”.

 

Step 2: And then click the “Add” button. You can add one file or several videos at the same time.

 

Step 3: Click the “Play” button and then select the last option “Convert”.

 

Part 2. More recommendation: Joyoshare Video Joiner

Joyoshare Video Joiner is another professional merging tool. Like VLC, Joyoshare can join multiple videos together. There are two modes provided to you: High-Speed Mode and Encoding Mode. The former can merge videos losslessly and fast. The latter offers various output formats, including Devices, HD Video, Web Video, General Video, and General Audio. If you choose audio formats, it means that you extract audios from videos.

The reason why I recommend Joyoshare Video Joiner to you:

• Merge videos at 60X faster speed
• Has built-in cutter, editor and converter
• Combine videos in a lossless way

Steps to merge videos via Joyoshare Video Joiner:

Step 1: Import several videos to Joyoshare Video Joiner.

After downloading and installing Joyoshare Video Joiner, run it. Joyoshare allows you to add videos by opening video files from a local folder and dragging and dropping them to the screen. Then you can rename and rearrange the order of your videos.

 

Step 2: Pick one merging mode and choose the output format.

Joyoshare Video Joiner provides you two modes. If you want to join videos without quality loss and at a high speed, choose the High-Speed Mode. Of course, if you want to cut, edit or convert your files, Encoding Mode is your best choice. There are a great variety of formats on Encoding mode. You can choose a format different from the input mode. 

 

Step 3: Remove the unnecessary parts of your video and edit the videos. (Optional)

Joyoshare Video Joiner has an inbuilt cutter and editor. Some people’s videos may have commercials. So, in this step, you can cut the ads.

 

Step 4: Edit the videos before merging.

Joyoshare Video joiner is also an outstanding editor. You can adjust rotation, use different video effects, like editing saturation, brightness, and contrast, add a frame to videos, insert watermark in image or text, embed subtitle, insert background audios, etc.

 

Step 5: Merge videos by one click only

On the right bottom location, the “Convert” button lies. Click the button and then your videos merge at 60X faster speed. No matter how large your videos are, merging can be finished instantly. Then a window will pop up, that is the location of the merged file.

 

Conclusion:

After reading this passage, you have known the VLC Media Player can meet the basic need to merge videos. But its merging speed is not as fast as Joyoshare Video Joiner. Besides, Joyoshare has more functions. Except for joining videos or audios, you can use it to convert videos or audios. Joyoshare allows someone without registering to merge videos for free with 5 times. Have a try! You can exactly know its functions before buying. What’s more, Joyoshare Video Joiner only supports Windows and Mac. If you want to use fine software running on Mac OS X, Unix, iOS or Android, VLC is highly recommended.