Lossless Cut - Save Time When Editing Videos
The command like application, FFmpeg is remarkably powerful but it
is also overly complicated for people who don't use the terminal much or
who don't have the headspace to memorize a bunch of esoteric commands.
Thankfully, there are some good front ends. Lossless Cut
is one whose main feature is specifically lossless trimming and cutting
of video and audio files, which is great for saving space by
rough-cutting your large video files taken from a video camera. It is
extremely fast, allowing you to trim the video without having a loss of
quality caused by having to do (slow) any encoding.
Some Example Lossless Use Cases
- Remove commercials from recorded TV shows
- Remove audio tracks from a file
- Combine audio and video tracks from separate recordings
- Split video into segments to meet social media length limits
- Rotating phone videos that come out the wrong way without actually re-encoding the video
Features
- Extract all tracks from a file (extract video, audio, subtitle, attachments and other tracks from one file into separate files)
- Losslessly rearrange the order of video/audio segments
- Take full-resolution snapshots from videos in JPEG/PNG format (low or high quality)
- Import/export segments: MP4/MKV chapter marks, Text file, YouTube, CSV, CUE, XML (DaVinci, Final Cut Pro) and more
- View FFmpeg last command log so you can modify and re-run recent commands on the command line
Many thanks to Scott Kingery from TechLifeWeb blog for pointing out this gem of a product. It's a good blog to add to your RSS reader for tech tips and leads to new software.
You can download Lossless Cut and get additional information on GitHub.