LosslessCut - no re-encode audio/video editor

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LosslessCut - no re-encode audio/video editor

#1 Post by webfork »

Synopsis: a very simple, cross-platform program for cutting a variety of video types.

The program isn't super intuitive. Watching the animated GIF on the website is helpful, but definitely read the "Typical workflow" bit. Although it took me some time to figure out how to use it, but it's dead-simple and very fast. It worked great with some Skype videos I had that ran too long.

License: MIT

Framework / dependencies: Electron and FFMPEG

Sites:
https://blog.mifi.no/2016/10/30/losslesscut/
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia ... -cut.shtml

Portable: yes, no settings to save. Stealth: no, writes a bunch of junk to AppData\Roaming\

Related: Moo0 Video Cutter

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LosslessCut

#2 Post by freakazoid »

Was looking for a way to trim OGG files losslessly and found this program.

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Some quick notes:
- It's an Electron app so the uncompressed filesize is going to be huge. It's around 250MB.
- Bundles ffmpeg.
- As shown in the above GIF, it can also losslessly cut video(!)
- The GUI is rather simplistic and is meant for only one cut operation. If you need to do complex editing, then I don't recommend it.
- Portable, but not stealth. Settings are saved to %APPDATA%.
- Has Mac OSX and linux builds.

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https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut
is it stealth? ;)

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Re: LosslessCut

#3 Post by webfork »

freakazoid wrote: Sat Jul 07, 2018 10:22 am Was looking for a way to trim OGG files losslessly and found this program.
Merging with the earlier thread.

Does it cut audio files as well?

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Re: LosslessCut

#4 Post by Midas »

As all the magic is performed by FFmpeg, see another possible solution at viewtopic.php?p=91129#p91129... plus, the recipe is valid for other media file types.

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Re: LosslessCut

#5 Post by freakazoid »

webfork wrote: Sat Jul 07, 2018 6:40 pm
freakazoid wrote: Sat Jul 07, 2018 10:22 am Was looking for a way to trim OGG files losslessly and found this program.
Merging with the earlier thread.

Does it cut audio files as well?
Yes, it cuts audio as well, which was the main reason I wanted to try this out.
is it stealth? ;)

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Re: LosslessCut - no re-encode video cutting

#6 Post by Midas »

LosslessCut v2.2.0 released (changelog and download at https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/releases).

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Lossless Cut

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Simple and ultra fast cross platform tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video and audio files. Great for saving space by rough cutting your large video files taken from a video camera, GoPro, drone, etc. It lets you quickly extract the good parts from your videos and discard many gigabytes of data without doing a slow re-encode and thereby losing quality. It extremely fast because it does an almost direct data copy. It is fueled by the awesome ffmpeg (included) for doing the grunt work. It also features some other lossless operations on videos.
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Features

Lossless cutting of common video and audio formats
Lossless re-merge of selected segments (for cutting out commercials etc.)
Lossless merge of arbitrary files (with identical codecs)
Lossless extracting of all data streams from a file (explode video, audio, subtitle and other streams of a file into separate files)
Take full-resolution snapshots from videos in JPEG/PNG format
Manual input range of cutpoints
Can include primary streams (audio/video), or all streams
Can remove audio track
Apply a timecode offset
Remux into different output format
Change rotation/orientation metadata in videos. Great for rotating phone videos that come out the wrong way without actually re-encoding the video.
Homepage; <https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut>ht ... ssless-cut

Download: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/re ... ut-win.zip

Status: Not portable - Writes to AppData
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Re: LosslessCut

#8 Post by freakazoid »

Already posted here: viewtopic.php?t=24267
is it stealth? ;)

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Re: LosslessCut

#9 Post by webfork »

Rudy5 wrote: Sun Feb 16, 2020 2:25 pm I forgot to search, the mods can merge or delete because you already tested this
No problem - merged threads. Also glad to have a re-test as it's obviously storing settings differently from when I checked it.

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#10 Post by bitcoin »

nice program for a simple merge of video files

was using Avidemux but it kept crashing

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#11 Post by webfork »

I haven't had a chance to test it, but this latest release (v3.33.1) advertises portability:
Implement local config path on windows (portable app) #645
https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/re ... ag/v3.33.1

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tried putting "config.json" file in app folder but it doesn't seem to make portable mode work. No other documentation on how to make it work beside the commit history https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/co ... 46c4f6993b

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Userfriendly wrote: Mon Feb 22, 2021 5:24 pm tried putting "config.json" file in app folder but it doesn't seem to make portable mode work. No other documentation on how to make it work beside the commit history https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/co ... 46c4f6993b
Thanks for testing

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Re: LosslessCut - no re-encode audio/video editor

#14 Post by webfork »

Now at v3.53.0 and with some nice recent changes that jumped out at me:

* Dark mode (experimental but nice to see)
* Multiple instances

Full list:

https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/releases

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