LosslessCut

Cross platform GUI tool for lossless trimming / cutting of videos using ffmpeg and electron. 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.

Download

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

Links

• http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/117306/what-options-are-available-to-losslessly-trim-mp4-m4v-video-on-10-8-or-above
• https://www.google.no/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=lossless%20cut%20video
• https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/api/file-object.md
• https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/2538