LosslessCut: lossless video/audio editing

Re:LosslessCut: lossless video/audio editing by bscphil on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @09:51PM (#33979442)

Not sure exactly what your use case is, but I use vidcutter for lossless clip extraction and it works great and does not require Electron (it's QT based I believe). https://github.com/ozmartian/vidcutter

To answer a point that's been brought up elsewhere in the thread, one nice feature of vidcutter is that you can either cut fully losslessly (on keyframes) or cut frame-perfect while only encoding the frames before and after the first and last keyframes in the cut.

The Arch Linux package for vidcutter is only 4 MB. It has dependencies, of course, but I already have all of them installed for other things. (There's nothing uncommon.) All praise to dynamic linking.

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Re:LosslessCut: lossless video/audio editing by irjustin on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @12:19AM (#33980275)

> Only macOS Catalina and below is currently supported. Big Sur is unstable until further notice.

Sadly a massive blocker[0]

[0] https://github.com/ozmartian/vidcutter/issues/311

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Re:LosslessCut: lossless video/audio editing by Mojave3 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @12:46AM (#33980393)

Vidcutter is good but no where near as customizable as Losslesscut (specifically in terms of keybinds) and using the timeline is nowhere near as smooth. Its being developed in a way I approve of much more but I still prefer using Losslesscut by a large margin. If it ever catches up I'll be thrilled because I do like what its about a lot more but I don't really think it currently competes in terms of user experience. Still if it works well for you then there's a lot to appreciate.

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