Can Amazon Elastic Transcoder concatenate two videos

Question

That is, take foo.mp4 and bar.mp4 and produce foobar.mp4, which is simply foo.mp4 followed by bar.mp4? (For extra credit, if it can do this, can it also combine foo.mp4 and bar.mov?)

I might also want to do some other transcoding things, but right now my concern is with the concatenation question. Thanks!

Answer 1

The answer seems to be "no", at least for now (Sept 2013) -- https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=490206&#490206

Answer 2

AWS has added the ability to define multiple inputs for a job, which will join the clips into a single clip.

If you go through the console and look at the GUI there, you'll see an "+Add Another Input" option. Console Input options

You can see the request input takes an array. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/latest/developerguide/create-job.html

Right now (April 2017), they don't have the ability to set the transition as you would in a video editor (e.g., dissolve, dip to black) so you'll want to check the transition of the output clip to see what it ends up with. You can clip each input separately to get the desired result (e.g., cut off fades out/in).