Creating a Quick Action to Combine Multiple Videos Together

This guide assumes FFmpeg is already installed. If you need to install FFmpeg, follow the guide here

• Download the zip file with the Automator Action below:

169KB

Combine Videos.workflow.zip

archive

• Check where FFmpeg was installed by copying and pasting the command below into terminal, then hitting enter

which ffmpeg

• Copy the output

• Right click on workflow you'd like to install, and click open with Automator

• Replace “[FFMPEG PATH HERE]” with the output from “which ffmpeg”. The line should look like

FFMPEG="/opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg"

• Save the workflow

• Double click the workflow to install it

• Select multiple movie files in finder, then right click and hover over “Quick Actions” then “Combine Videos”

• A finder window will open asking where the combined video wants to be saved

• Press "Save" and the script will run, combining the movie files

Depending on the size of files this Quick Action may take a few minutes