LosslessCut

Use it when

• You need to rough-cut hours of camera, GoPro, or drone footage down to the good parts quickly, reclaiming gigabytes without a slow quality-losing re-encode
• You want to remux to a different container, merge same-codec clips, strip or replace audio/subtitle tracks, fix rotation metadata, or export frame snapshots without transcoding the video

What it solves

Not the fit when

• Cuts snap to keyframes except via the experimental smart cut feature, so it is not frame-accurate editing
• No mass/batch export across many files yet
• Playback preview relies on Chromium codec support; unsupported codecs need the FFmpeg-assisted preview conversion (the export itself stays lossless)
• frame-accurate editing with effects and transitions
• video transcoding or compression
• speech transcription
• automated batch rendering pipelines

Install

Download the build for your OS from https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/releases/latest (macOS Intel/Apple Silicon DMG, Windows 7z, Linux tar.bz2/AppImage/armv7l) or install via the Mac App Store, Microsoft Store, or Snap Store

Invoke

Open a video/audio file in the app, set segment cutpoints on the timeline (with keyframe jumping), and export - segments are copied without re-encoding; a basic CLI (docs/cli.md) and HTTP API (docs/api.md) are also available

Alternatives

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