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Concatenate videos

🤖/video/concat concatenates several videos together.

Itʼs possible to concatenate a virtually infinite number of video files using 🤖/video/concat.

Usage example

If you have a form with 3 file input fields and want to concatenate the uploaded videos in a specific order, instruct Transloadit using the name attribute of each input field. Use this attribute as the value for the fields key in the JSON, and set as to video_[[index]]. Transloadit will concatenate the files based on the ascending index order:

{
  "steps": {
    "concatenated": {
      "robot": "/video/concat",
      "use": {
        "steps": [
          {
            "name": ":original",
            "fields": "first_video_file",
            "as": "video_1"
          },
          {
            "name": ":original",
            "fields": "second_video_file",
            "as": "video_2"
          },
          {
            "name": ":original",
            "fields": "third_video_file",
            "as": "video_3"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

Parameters

  • output_meta

    Record<string, boolean> | boolean

    Allows you to specify a set of metadata that is more expensive on CPU power to calculate, and thus is disabled by default to keep your Assemblies processing fast.

    For images, you can add "has_transparency": true in this object to extract if the image contains transparent parts and "dominant_colors": true to extract an array of hexadecimal color codes from the image.

    For videos, you can add the "colorspace: true" parameter to extract the colorspace of the output video.

    For audio, you can add "mean_volume": true to get a single value representing the mean average volume of the audio file.

    You can also set this to false to skip metadata extraction and speed up transcoding.

  • result

    boolean (default: false)

    Whether the results of this Step should be present in the Assembly Status JSON

  • queue

    "batch"

    Setting the queue to 'batch', manually downgrades the priority of jobs for this step to avoid consuming Priority job slots for jobs that don't need zero queue waiting times

  • force_accept

    boolean (default: false)
      Force a Robot to accept a file type it would have ignored.

    By default Robots ignore files they are not familiar with. 🤖/video/encode, for example, will happily ignore input images.

    With the force_accept parameter set to true you can force Robots to accept all files thrown at them. This will typically lead to errors and should only be used for debugging or combatting edge cases.

  • use

    string | Array<string> | Array<object> | object

    Specifies which Step(s) to use as input.

    • You can pick any names for Steps except ":original" (reserved for user uploads handled by Transloadit)
    • You can provide several Steps as input with arrays: 
      {
  "use": [
    ":original",
    "encoded",
    "resized"
  ]
}

  • ffmpeg

    object

    A parameter object to be passed to FFmpeg. If a preset is used, the options specified are merged on top of the ones from the preset. For available options, see the FFmpeg documentation. Options specified here take precedence over the preset options.

  • ffmpeg_stack

    "v5" | "v6" | "v7" | string (default: "v5.0.0")

    Selects the FFmpeg stack version to use for encoding. These versions reflect real FFmpeg versions. We currently recommend to use "v6.0.0".

  • width

    string | number | null

    Width of the new video, in pixels.

    If the value is not specified and the preset parameter is available, the preset's supplied width will be implemented.

  • height

    string | number | null

    Height of the new video, in pixels.

    If the value is not specified and the preset parameter is available, the preset's supplied height will be implemented.

  • preset

    Converts a video according to pre-configured settings.

    If you specify your own FFmpeg parameters using the Robot's and/or do not not want Transloadit to set any encoding setting, starting ffmpeg_stack: "v6", you can use the value 'empty' here.

  • video_fade_seconds

    string | number (default: 1)

    When used this adds a video fade in and out effect between each section of your concatenated video. The float value is used so if you want a video delay effect of 500 milliseconds between each video section you would select 0.5, however, integer values can also be represented.

    This parameter does not add a video fade effect at the beginning or end of your video. If you want to do so, create an additional 🤖/video/encode Step and use our ffmpeg parameter as shown in this demo.

    Please note this parameter is independent of adding audio fades between sections.

  • audio_fade_seconds

    string | number (default: 1)

    When used this adds an audio fade in and out effect between each section of your concatenated video. The float value is used so if you want an audio delay effect of 500 milliseconds between each video section you would select 0.5, however, integer values can also be represented.

    This parameter does not add an audio fade effect at the beginning or end of your video. If you want to do so, create an additional [🤖/video/encode](/docs/robots/video-encode/] Step and use our ffmpeg parameter as shown in this demo.

    Please note this parameter is independent of adding video fades between sections.

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