LosslessCut

GUI tool for lossless trimming / cutting of videos using ffmpeg. Great for rough processing of large video files taken from a video camera, drone, etc. Lets you quickly get rid of the useless parts. It doesn't do any decoding / encoding and is therefore very fast and has no quality loss. Also allows for taking JPEG snapshots of the video at the selected time.

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Installing / running

Install ffmpeg
Download latest LosslessCut from releases
Run app
If ffmpeg is available in $PATH/%PATH% it will just work
If not, a dialog will pop up to select ffmpeg executable path.

Documentation

Drag drop a video file into player to load or use ⌘/CTRL+O. Select the start and end time and press the scissors button. The original video files will not be modified. Instead it creates a lossless export in the same directory as the original file. Preserves exif data.

Keyboard shortcuts

SPACE Play/pause
← Seek backward 1 sec
→ Seek forward 1 sec
. (period) Tiny seek forward
, (comma) Tiny seek backward
c Capture snapshot (in the same dir as the video)

Development building / running

git clone https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut.git
cd lossless-cut
npm install

Running

npm start

Building package

npm run build
npm run package

TODO

more hotkeys
ffprobe show keyframes?
ffprobe format
About menu
improve ffmpeg error handling
timeline scrub support

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