LosslessCut for Mac
Tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video and audio files.
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LosslessCut overview
LosslessCut is a simple and ultra fast cross platform tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video and audio files. 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. It extremely fast because it does an almost direct data copy. It uses the awesome ffmpeg (included) for doing the grunt work.
Features:
- Lossless cutting of common video and audio formats
- Take full-resolution snapshots from videos in JPEG/PNG format
- Change rotation/orientation metadata in videos. Great for rotating phone videos that turns out the wrong way without actually re-encoding the video.
- Manual input range of cutpoints
- Can include more than 2 streams or remove audio track (optional)
Note: While the software is classified as free, it is actually donationware. Please consider making a donation to help support development.
What’s new in version 3.65.0
New features
- Markers: Segments that don't have any end time are now considered "markers". They are rendered differently, and are excluded from exports. Markers can be useful for bookmarking locations on the timeline and all markers can be batch exported as screenshots. More ideas for marker features are welcome!
- Play multiple audio tracks simultaneously (with FFmpeg-assisted playback) #256 #936
- Remember segment selected/deselected state inside .llc file #1329 #885 #371
- Split timeline by byte size #1219
- Modify segments by JavaScript expression #2128 #2305
- Black/scene/silence detect
- New shortcuts
- New action selectSegmentsAtCursor #1284 #254 (comment)
- Improve waveform rendering
- New file name template variables FILE_EXPORT_COUNT and EXPORT_COUNT #2296
- Upgrade to electron v35 (drops support for macOS 10)
- Upgrade to ffmpeg v7.1
Other changes
- Show loading indicator for mini waveform #260
- change SEG_NUM and SEG_NUM_INT variables: they will now correspond to the original index of the segment as shown in the number on the segment list. new variables SELECTED_SEG_NUM and SELECTED_SEG_NUM_INT can be used for previous behavior (where the numbering is based on the segment's number in the list of selected segments).
- All segments will now have a start time defined - llc project file version bumped to v2 (to migrate missing start times). Missing end time now means that the segment is a marker (previously it meant extend to end of timeline).
- minor change: most operations will no longer take place if no segments selected #2335
- Make "combine overlapping segments" also combine adjacent segments #2340
- export confirm: allow adjusting all end frames too #2256
- allow disabling remember window position closes #2240
- don't create detected segments twice in mode 2, fixes #2236
- improve segment list buttons
- log more ffmpeg commands to cli
- make playback rate indicator pop (when changing) - customer thought it was hard to see currently
- implement CMX3600 EDL import #1340
- import PBF as markers #993
- fix webp on mac #1671
- fix broken loop selected segments
- Also: Removed old csv project auto import
- Allow extracting markers as images
- improve loader
- fix time input placeholder #2346
- Bugfixes and improvements
LosslessCut for Mac
Free
In English
Version 3.65.0
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Jan 11 2025
Version: 3.64.0
Not super intuitive but found some tutorials on YouTube (search: LosslessCut Tutorial Series).
May 29 2024
Version: 3.61.1
For the Intel 64 version, disk image couldn't be opened. No mountable file system. Got same result whether I used the MacUpdate dmg or the one from GitHub. YMMV.
Dec 23 2023
Version: 3.59.0
The INTEL download link here at MU is currently 404. Use this: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/releases/latest/download/LosslessCut-mac-x64.dmg - - The ARM version link is fine.
Oct 18 2023
Version: 3.58.0
There is NO universal version of LosslessCut. There IS an ARM version. Here are the links: (1) ARM: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/releases/latest/download/LosslessCut-mac-arm64.dmg (2) x86: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/releases/latest/download/LosslessCut-mac-x64.dmg
