This might be impossible? (copy/paste issue...)

[chumbo]

Hi,
I have 74 videos each in separate folders that I need to shrink in size using Handbrake. However, since Handbrake doesn't support scanning the content of multiple folder, I used this workaround...

I searched for "*.mp4", in the parent folder of those 74 subfolders containing the videos and copy/pasted them to a new folder to then send to Handbrake for 'shrinking'. (actually the folder structure is a bit more complicated, there are sub and sub-sub folders)
Now that's done, I want to send them back to their origin folder. I was hoping to just copy/paste the content of the destination Handbrake folder which now contains those 74 shrunken videos back to the tab which has the '*.mp4' search result which are still pointing to the origin folders of each video.
Unfortunately that doesn't work so I'm obviously going about it the wrong way but I even wonder if it's at all possible to achieve in just a few steps?

The alternative is daunting...copy/paste individually those shrunken videos individually back to their origin folder...74 times!

[highend]

There is no way to "paste them back" into their original location

Script it (you should have done that in the first place anyway)...

[chumbo]

Ok, thx for the reply.
Unfortunately, I don't have the skills to script it (funny how these days, it is assumed everyone knows how to code! )