lossless-cut

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I've been trying to cut precise clips from a long mp4 video over the past week or so and learned a lot. I started with ffmpeg on the command line but between getting accurate timestamps and keyframe/encoding issues it is not trivial. For my needs I want a very precise starting frame and best results came from first reencoding at much higher quality, then marking & batching with LossLessCut, then down coding my clips to desired quality. Even then there's still some manual review and touch-up. It's not crazy-hard, but by no means trivial or simple. https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

The intermediary solution for me between ffmpeg and kdenlive is LosslessCut (https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut). Also free and open-source... of course it look less cool than a Terminal UI like the OP, but it's very practical when I don't want to reencode everything, or if I just need to change the format of container (MP4, MKV, etc.).

You're not viewing the past with rose colored glasses. You're just viewing the past. We had simpler codecs with simpler computational complexities. Holding Shift and selecting a chunk of a video to copy was simple because videos were mostly a succession of independently compressed frames. Nowadays, we have forward- and backward- dependant frames, scene detection, and lots of other very advanced compression techniques. There are whole projects striving to provide a reliable way to just cut videos without having to recode [1] and after years the results are mixed and only working for very specific codecs; no wonder Apple decided that doing the same, to their quality standards of the time, was not worth the effort or a secondary feature that was not in scope. [1]: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

check out https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

Impressive, but I'll stick with LosslessCut (https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut)

I don't know about ffslice, but you can get frame-perfect slicing with minimal reencoding via LosslessCut's experimental "smart cut" feature[2] or Smart Media Cutter's[3] smartcut[4]. [1] https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut [2] https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126 [3] https://smartmediacutter.com/ [4] https://github.com/skeskinen/smartcut

Yes, https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut (See also: Kdenlive) I don't agree that's a good definition of friendly but that's ok.

You can try the tool creatively named LosslessCut. It's more user friendly than both machete and avidemux but it doesn't support as many container formats (only mp4 and mkv I think). https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

It claims to do a bunch of operations without conversion/re-encoding: https://www.shutterencoder.com/documentation/#Functions-With... I don't see anything like LosslessCut's "smart cut" feature, which re-encodes just the part between the cut point and next keyframe. Unfortunately, smart cut doesn't appear to work reliably. https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126

I recently found LosslessCut (https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut) that is basically a GUI for ffmpeg, you can make simple edits without re-encoding the stream.

For lossless cut, there's the LosslessCut [1] app, which even has an experimental but mostly working version of a "smart cut" feature [2] (aka. only re-encode the minimal mandatory amount of frames if you trim at a point between 2 key frames) [1]: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut [2]: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126

Great looking product, if anyone wants to do the same stuff for free on windows (except image resizing) I use FFMPEGBatchAVConverter https://ffmpeg-batch.sourceforge.io/ Batch FFMPEG conversion (I usually go from h264 to HEVC with my NVIDIA GPU 3060Ti) > ffmpeg -i file.mp4 -c:v hevc_nvenc -rc vbr -cq 24 -qmin 24 -qmax 24 -profile:v main10 -pix_fmt p010le -b:v 0K -c:a aac -map 0 and LosslessCut https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut for ffmpeg cutting and splicing p0rn scenes.