What is the first video merging software that comes to mind when it comes to combine videos on Mac? iMovie? QuickTime? Or any other video joiners? Actually, there are quite a few joining tools available to merge videos on Mac. The key question is how to select the perfect one to work with among numerous programs. Luckily, this post introduces 3 easy, effective, and well-received video mergers to help merge videos on Mac.

Part 1. How to Combine Videos on Mac with Joyoshare Video Joiner

To be frank, combining videos on mac would never be a hard task whether for professionals or amateurs if working with a simple and fast video joiner program - Joyoshare Video Joiner. As professional video merging software, it is not only provided with a high-speed mode to losslessly merge videos of the same format but also provides an encoding mode to join videos in different formats together and edit videos for your preference.
Also worth mentioning is that Joyoshare Video Joiner gives a full support to an extensive range of video/audio formats including MP4, MP3, AVI, M4V, M4A, MPEG, 3GP, WMV, MKV, MOV, DVD, HD, VOB, FLV, etc and even various GIFs/live photos. Besides that, it is as well capable of converting them to many other formats and the formats with which devices are compatible at 60X amazing speed. 

Step 1: Make sure that you have install the latest version of Joyoshare Video Joiner for Mac on your computer. Next, open it and simply drag videos to be combined to its mian interface. Alternatively, click the "Open File" button located in the lower left corner to add video files.

Step 2: After that, tap on "Format" in the lower right corner to pick a merging mode and an output format depending on your needs. If you need to combine videos without re-encoding, choose the high-speed mode that is for merging videos of the same format with the original quality.

If these uploaded videos are encoded with different formats, you have to select the encoding mode. Besides combining different files without trouble, this mode allows you to customize parameters of the chosen output format by clicking a gear icon as well as to edit uploaded videos with awesome effects.

Step 3: Once selected, press on "OK" button back to the previoue interface. Then, click each video to preview. If you are not satisfied with certain sections, you can move the yellow timeline to cut them.

Step 4: This step is optional. Before merging, users who choose encoding mode to join videos have an opportunity to edit videos by touching the "Edit" icon. They can trim/rotate videos, change aspect ratio, use awesome visual and sound effects, insert unique watermarks, add synchronized subtitles, adjust saturation and brightness, etc.

Step 5: After editing, click "OK" to exit the editing interface. Next, you can rename and reorder each video if needful. When everything is done, hit on the "Convert" icon to start combining these videos. The merged single video will be saved in your local file folder.

Part 2. How to Merge Videos on Mac with QuickTime Player 

Far more than a media player to process an extensive range of digital videos, images, animation and etc, Apple developed QuickTime can also work as a video editor to do some basic video editings, like combine multiple video clips into one, trim videos, and something similar. How to realize video merging in QuickTime? Maybe many have not been experienced with this. No worries. Below is a stepwise operation guide.

Step 1: Firstly, open QuickTime Player and drag one video to it to play. Or, you can right-click the video file and choose the QuickTime to play it.

Step 2: Open "Finder" and locate the folder saving other video files to be merged. Select all and drag them to the right onto the opened video in QuickTime. With all video clips are added, highlight one of them and drag it to left ot right to rearrange the sequence as you desire.

Step 3: Now, head to "File" on the top left and select "Save" from the pull-down list. And then all these added videos will be combined and saved as a single video file in the original format. If you want to combine videos to other format, please choose "Export" after "File" option to set up the desired output format.

Part 3. How to Join Videos on Mac with iMovie 

iMovie is also a workable solution to combine videos on Mac. But a few of Mac users don't have a good idea of how to actually operate it to perform a merging task. Many of them have complained that the greyed "Join Clips" option results in the failure of video merging. Actually, iMovie designing "Join Clips" is just to rejoin video clips splitted in iMovie, not to combine separate added video files. To merge videos on Mac in iMovie, please follow these steps.

Step 1: After launching iMovie on your Mac, click on "Create New" > "Projects" to produce a new project for your videos. Next, choose "File" > "Import Media..." to add videos, or directly tap on the "Import Media" icon on the main screen.

Step 2: When all the video files that you need to merge are imported, drag them to the timeline one by one in a same track and arrange them as you like. In this way, these video segments will be combined in the order you set.

Step 3: In the last step, you have to navigate to "File" on the top menu and then to "Share" > "File..." to export and save the merged video into your Mac system. Alternatively, select any desired destination file and output the video.

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