diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 54f32ae9..b237de9a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Simple and ultra fast cross platform tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video ## Features - Lossless cutting of common video and audio formats -- Lossless merge of selected segments if more the one +- Lossless re-merge of selected segments if more the one (for cutting out commercials etc.) - Lossless merge of arbitrary files (with identical codecs) - Lossless extracting of all data streams from a file (video, audio, subtitle, ++) - Take full-resolution snapshots from videos in JPEG/PNG format @@ -39,22 +39,21 @@ Unsupported files can now be remuxed (fast) or encoded (slow) to a friendly form - Drag drop a video file into player to load or use /CTRL+O. - Press SPACE to play/pause - Select the cut start and end time. Press I to select the start time, O to select the end time for the cut. -- Press the custom output dir button if you want to export to a certain dir (default: source file dir) -- Press the rotation button if you want to override orientation metadata +- If you want to cut more segments out of the video, press + or the `c+` button to add another segment, then select the next segment with I/O. +- If you want to re-merge all the selected segments after cutting, toggle the button `nm` (no merge) to `am` (auto merge). This is useful for *cutting away* certain parts of a video (by selecting everything except the parts not needed.) +- If you want to export to a certain dir, press the custom output dir button (default: input file dir) +- If you want to override orientation metadata, press the rotation button - Press the scissors button (or E) to export the slice - Press the camera button (or C) to take a snapshot -- Press the trash button if you want to move the original file to trash +- If you want to move the original file to trash, press the trash button -The original video files will not be modified. Instead it creates a lossless export in the same directory as the original file with from/to timestamps. Note that the cut is currently not precise around the cutpoints, so video before/after the nearest keyframe will be lost. EXIF data is preserved. +Note: The original video files will not be modified. Instead it creates a lossless export in the same directory as the original file with from/to timestamps. Note that the cut is currently not precise around the cutpoints, so video before/after the nearest keyframe will be lost. EXIF data is preserved. ## Keyboard shortcuts Press h To show/hide list of shortcuts -For old shortcuts see here: -https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/blob/41d6991c11b0a82b08344fd22a1ea094af217417/README.md#keyboard-shortcuts - ## Known issues -- If you have trouble with audio sync or something else with the output video, try toggling the button `nc` *(normal cut)* to `kc` *(kc cut)*. See discussion in [#13](https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/pull/13) +- If you have trouble with audio sync or something else with the output video, try toggling the button `nc` *(normal cut)* to `kc` *(kc cut)*. Also try to toggle `all` (all streams) to `ps` (primary streams). See discussion in [#13](https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/pull/13) - If you get an error when cutting any kind of file under Windows, please check your anti-virus. It might be blocking execution of ffmpeg, see [#18](https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/18) ## Development building / running