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LosslessCut

Simple, cross platform video editor for lossless trimming / cutting of videos. Great for rough processing of large video files taken from a video camera, GoPro, drone, etc. Lets you quickly extract the good parts from your videos and discard GB of data without losing quality.

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    Lossless Cut is my new favorite FOSS lightweight video editor for at least 4 reasons. 1.Fast view Speed using hotkeys J & L 2.Fast-Copy method- most video editors will make you encode which is a lot slower 3.It retains timestamps.. most don't 4.The Kanban style segment listing is easy, visually pleasant, and offers a lot of flexibility I'm basically do intermittent cropping. On the right hand side, I choose merge cuts at the top, and use the split segment symbol at the bottom ][. Split...

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Comment summary: LosslessCut is praised for its quick and effective video editing capabilities, including cutting, merging, and trimming without re-encoding. Users appreciate its cross-platform availability, free and open-source nature, and simplicity. Some minor drawbacks are noted, such as difficulties with fine-tuning cuts and occasional issues with merging files. Despite these, the program is generally well-regarded for its fast performance and reliability.
Top Positive Comment
Spaaaace
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It's a simple cut video without recode. Just what I needed.

Top Negative Comment
peterbrand
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Interface is good, seems fast, but it messed up creating output. I asked for 3 clips to be output to single file and what I got was clip1 then clip 1 plus the bit between clip1 and 2 then clip 1 again, then ... I gave up and closed the output. Retraced my steps to make sure I wasn't at fault. Time is precious.

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Lossless Cut is my new favorite FOSS lightweight video editor for at least 4 reasons. 1.Fast view Speed using hotkeys J & L 2.Fast-Copy method- most video editors will make you encode which is a lot slower 3.It retains timestamps.. most don't 4.The Kanban style segment listing is easy, visually pleasant, and offers a lot of flexibility I'm basically do intermittent cropping. On the right hand side, I choose merge cuts at the top, and use the split segment symbol at the bottom ][. Split while viewing paused or not, delete unwanted segments Kanban style, Export, done. :) While you can rotate the view on a temporary basis, there is conflicting info about LosslessCut being able to do fast-copy style exported rotating. It didn't work for me, and I recommend using Free Video Rotator icon Free Video Rotator afterwards for permanent rotating as needed.

Just4Me
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Not free for Windows or Mac.

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You can download it for free from GitHub.

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Irving O.
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Fácil, solo requiero cortar, no me quiero complicar con efectos o nombres de archivos, este programa lo hace simple :)

ushabuntu
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Free, open source, does the job merging and splitting video files, and automagically updated through the app stores (if you're willing to support)

RemovedUser
1

It's good because it shows the key frames(the I frames) visually in the horizontal bar. I can find easily where the I frames are. Because it's a native Linux app, I don't need to emulate and it's very fast. Moreover it's FOSS.

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Install from the command line

  • brew install --cask losslesscut
  • flatpak install flathub no.mifi.losslesscut

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What is LosslessCut?

Simple, cross platform video editor for lossless trimming / cutting of videos. Great for rough processing of large video files taken from a video camera, GoPro, drone, etc. Lets you quickly extract the good parts from your videos and discard GB of data without losing quality. It doesn't do any decoding / encoding and is therefore extremely fast. Also allows for taking JPEG snapshots of the video at the selected time. This app uses the awesome ffmpeg for doing the grunt work. Also supports lossless cutting in the most common audio formats.

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  • Developed by

    NO flagMikael Finstad
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
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  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.8 (24 ratings)
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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Italian
    • Czech
    • Japanese
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Chinese
    • Slovene
    • German

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Video & Movies, Photos & Graphics, Development, Audio & Music

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  •  329 Open Issues
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Our users have written 21 comments and reviews about LosslessCut, and it has gotten 141 likes

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