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 3.66.1
- Everything from v3.65.0 (pre-release)
- Upgraded FFmpeg to 8.0
- Upgraded Electron to 38 - note: they dropped support for macOS 11 ‼️
- Drastically improve performance of FFmpeg-assisted playback for non-natively supported codecs/formats.
- Improve UI performance and increase max segments to 1000 #2473
- Add new file name template variables: CUT_DURATION, CUT_FROM_NUM, CUT_TO_NUM #2486
- New SEG_LABEL array in cut+merge mode #2428
- Toggle tracks by expression #2435 #1465 #371
- Cut also externally added tracks #896
- Allow setting timeline zero offset to current cursor time #2512 - this effectively also means allowing a negative time offset (new action makeCursorTimeZero)
- New keyboard actions:
- toggleDarkMode: Toggle dark mode
- toggleStripCurrentFilter: Toggle tracks using current filter
- toggleStripAll: Keep or discard all tracks
- toggleStripSubtitle: Keep or discard subtitle tracks
- toggleStripVideo: Keep or discard video tracks
- Allow importing CSV with 2 columns #2412
- CSV export/import tags as extra columns #2507
- Show number in batch list #2357
- Improve dark mode #1969
- Transfer labels when inverting segments #2362
- Improve creating segments flexibility: these functions now apply to the current segment. If not run without any segment, they will apply to whole timeline (like before). This allows things like running a binary search, see #2427. Applies to the following functions: "Create num segments", "Create fixed duration segments", "Create random segments"
- Allow drag dropping files to batch list #2400 and tracks panel
- Add new display format "total seconds" #254
- Show markers also in inverse mode #2408
- Implement basic OTIO importer #2441 #1340
- Allow utf8 letters when not in sanitize mode #889 #2482
- Allow spaces in file name, even if sanitize is enabled #2498
- Indicate when we are on a keyframe (approximately) #2155
- Select segment under cursor when playing back current segments #2456
- Allow reading all keyframes (action: readAllKeyframes and menu item from file or current segment) #2490 #563
- Don't fill chapter gaps for matroska (it seems to support gaps)
- Experimental lossy encoding mode #372 e.g. --lossy-mode "{ videoEncoder: 'libx264' }"
- Support DJI Air 3 GPS from SRT (GPS map)
- When detecting segments, will now auto delete the currently selected segment #2427
- Many more bugfixes and improvements
LosslessCut for Mac
Free
In English
Version 3.66.1
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Apr 14 2025
Version: 3.65.0
LosslessCut is a bit difficult to learn at first. However, once you've figured it out, it's invaluable. I have found no other app that lets you cut pieces out here and there all in one operation and then export it all together as one seamless video.
Then there's the price -- I thank you profusely for making this a free piece of very high quality software, and for updating it frequently!
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.
