LosslessCut: The Swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing

Re:LosslessCut: The Swiss army knife of lossless video/audio... by jpnguyen on Sunday June 30, 2024 @02:15PM (#40838872)

Used this a bit. Great free tool. Not always precise on cuts depending on the available keyframing, and takes some trial and error iteration, but definite a quick way to not have to re-encode the whole file.

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Re:LosslessCut: The Swiss army knife of lossless video/audio... by WarOnPrivacy on Sunday June 30, 2024 @05:47PM (#40840648)

I appreciate this review. Son #5 is always looking for video editing tools. I left a copy on the house drive for him to try.

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Re:LosslessCut: The Swiss army knife of lossless video/audio... by throw101010 on Sunday June 30, 2024 @06:02PM (#40840749)

You should try the "Smart cuts" feature (which is labelled experimental). On common formats/containers (like videos from YouTube) it works really well.

Basically it will attempt a precise cut and if it doesn't coincide with a keyframe it will reencode both ends on each side of the cut and the nearest keyframes.

It is generally very small segments to reencode so it is pretty quick and the quality of these is nearly lossless too so the cut feels invisible.

The only issue is if your segments are really short (under a second) it will generally fail... but chances are keyframe cuts in this case don't work well either.

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