LosslessCut 4+

Lossless video/audio toolkit

Mikael Finstad

    • 4.7 • 24 Ratings
    • $18.99

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Description

The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing

LosslessCut aims to be the ultimate cross platform ffmpeg GUI for extremely fast and lossless operations on video, audio, subtitle and other related media files. The main feature is lossless trimming and cutting of video and audio files, which is great for saving space by rough-cutting your large video files taken from a video camera, GoPro, drone, etc. It lets you quickly extract the good parts from your videos and discard many gigabytes of data without doing a slow re-encode and thereby losing quality. Or you can add a music or subtitle track to your video without needing to encode. Everything is extremely fast because it does an almost direct data copy, fuelled by the awesome ffmpeg project which does all the grunt work.

Features:

- Lossless cutting of most video and audio formats
- Losslessly cut out parts of video/audio (for cutting away commercials etc.)
- Lossless merge/concatenation of arbitrary files (with identical codecs parameters, e.g. from same camera)
- Lossless stream editing: Combine arbitrary tracks from multiple files (ex. add music or subtitle track to a video file)
- Losslessly extract all tracks from a file (extract video, audio, subtitle and other tracks from one file into separate files)
- Remux into any compatible output format
- Take full-resolution snapshots from videos in JPEG/PNG format
- Manual input of cutpoint times
- Apply a per-file timecode offset
- Change rotation/orientation metadata in videos
- View technical data about all streams
- Timeline zoom and frame/keyframe jumping
- Saves per project cut segments to project file
- View ffmpeg last command log so you can modify and re-run recent commands on the command line
- Undo/redo
- Give labels to cut segments
- View segment details, export/import cut segments as CSV
- Video thumbnails and audio waveform

Example lossless use cases:

- Remove audio tracks from a file
- Add music to a video (or replace existing audio track)
- Include a subtitle into a video
- Extract music track from a video and cut it to your needs
- Cut out commercials from a recorded TV show
- Fix rotation of a video that has the wrong orientation flag set
- Quickly change a H264 MKV video to MOV or MP4 for playback on iPhone
- Import a list of cut times from other tool as a EDL (edit decision list, CSV) and run these cuts with LosslessCut
- Export a list of cut times as a CSV EDL and run these in another tool
- Loop a video / audio clip X times quickly without re-encoding

* Please note:

- This app is not used for exact cutting. Start cut time will be "rounded" to the nearest previous keyframe, which may be a fraction of a second before your desired cut point, or up to several seconds, depending on the encoding.
- A lot of formats and codecs are supported, but not all possible video/audio formats can be supported. There may be issues with cutting videos from certain new cameras or some professional cameras using exotic codec configurations.
- You may not be able to cut some proprietary tracks on your files (e.g. gopro's GPMF), metadata tracks etc.
- Preview is low quality for certain codecs
- MPEG TS is tricky sometimes
- EXIF metadata might not be preserved 100%

Video music: Believe by Roa https://soundcloud.com/roa_music1031

What’s New

Version 1.10

- If overwrite option is disabled, skip existing files
- Add webp to image capture formats
- Extract multiple segments to images
- Customizable timestamp transfer
- Allow reloading current file on command
- DV Analyzer import
- Keyboard shortcuts search function
- Duplicate segment function
- ffmpeg 6
- Bugfixes and improvements
- Many new keyboard shortcuts
- Visualize segment tags in seg list
- Select segments by tag
- Allow setting min padding for output file name
- Allow customising merged file name
- Lossless speedup/slowdown
- New full screen video mode
- Improve segment tags editor
- Make sure that all actions are key bindable. From now on all menu actions will also be keyboard bindable. Added the following actions:
- Convert to supported format
- Create segments from keyframes
- Detect black scenes
- Detect silent scenes
- Detect scene changes
- Edit tracks / metadata tags
- Open
- Start times as YouTube Chapters
- Report an error
- Toggle show waveform
- Toggle show thumbnails
- Toggle show keyframes
- Include more tracks from other file
- Export/import segments as SRT #1340
- Add keyboard shortcut for edit segment tags
- New "copy thumbnails" keyboard action #1628
- Reduce number of clicks in "open new file" menu (no more radio buttons)
- Add support for timestamp csv import
- Make time parsing more flexible
- Read fps from audio files too
- Auto-convert between subtitle codecs (webvtt, srt, ass)
- Change logic when sanitizing output file: disallow slashes on windows, check for file name ending with a space or a dot
- Move "Segments" to its own root menu
- Add "split segment" to menu
- Update MacOS icon
- Fix Smart cut: multiply estimated bitrate by 8
- Minor improvements and fixes

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
24 Ratings

24 Ratings

DaddyVader ,

Very Fast, easy to use

I needed a tool for breaking video files into multiple smaller files! Could not be easier to use! Works perfectly.

JohnK_SF ,

Fast but not consistent

Experiemented with several files at diffferent cut points. Tried the keyframe vs. exact cut as well. Each time I found that the position of the cut and where in IN point started seemed to vary. Often the first cut if wittin 10-15 seconds of the beginning of the clip would include all media up to the intended cut point. When doing the "normal" cut and saving to .mov I would only get the audio file with no video. Found this to be more frustrating than useful. Emailedd the developer with no response.

Developer Response ,

Hi!
First apologies for the slow reply, I don't check App Store Connect very often, and for some reason I haven't received your email. Maybe you can try again: mikael@yankee.no and I'll keep a lookout in the spam folder. As for your issues with cut-points, this is actually a known issue and a limitation with lossless cutting. It is not possible for the cut to happen between keyframes, and the way it usually works is that the cutting algorithm will round to the nearest *previous* keyframe. Some videos and codecs have keyframes spaced very far apart, like yours most likely has keyframes 10-15 seconds apart, hence it will include those 10-15 seconds of footage too, even if you try to cut it away. I'm constantly looking for ways to improve this and make it more intuitive. In future versions I plan on finding a way to better indicate which frame the cut will actually happen at, and the ultimate end goal is to implement "Smart Cutting" which can also be accurate.

Andrewlina jolie ,

Bought just to support such a good app!

I've been using the free version for quite some time, and decided that I find this app so useful, that I'd buy the app store version to support the developer.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.