Make video cuts with lightning speed
Published by Scott Kingery on
I've found "The Swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing". It's so fast you'll go looking for video to edit. #VideoEditing
Ever have a video that you need to just lop off the first few seconds where you had your finger in front of the lens? Or, maybe there are segments of a video you just want to separate into their own files. I've found the perfect utility to do all that and it works so fast you head will spin. Oh, and did I mention is it works on Windows, Mac and Linux?
This software is called Lossless Cut. This uses ffmpeg but you don't need to know anything about that. You don't have to learn any crazy switches or work at the command line or terminal. Just load a video, use the "scrubber" to find the spot where you want to split your video, rinse and repeat until you have them all marked then click export. Within seconds your files will be created. There's no time consuming re-encoding, you're done!
This isn't an editor in the sense where you'll be joining files and adding music, etc. It's just meant to cut up your video. You could then add your exports into your other editors and you've just saved time later because that editor is only working with the footage you want.
Per github, the following formats should work: MP4, MOV, WebM, Matroska, OGG and WAV. The following audio codecs: FLAC, MP3, Opus, PCM, Vorbis and AAC. Video codecs: H264, AV1, Theora, VP8, VP9 and H265 (needs hardware decoder)
There's a quick video here:
