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 3.69.0
- Add lossless cropping & aspect ratio override via bitstream and container metadata
- Alow shifting tracks for each file (-itsoffset)
- Add 'decimate video' tool to filter away all non-keyframes
- Add Windows ARM 64 native build with native ffmpeg
- Move timecode out of timeline and make it copy-able
- Upgrade Electron to latest
- Add new 'opposing' align mode
- Add FFmpeg -hwaccel auto setting for hardware acceleration of certain operations
- Add API events export-start and export-complete
- Allow deleting track metadata
- Improve shift segments dialog
- Show keyboard shortcuts inside button tooltips in UI
- Warn if trying to cut with too few keyframes around cutpoint
- (Linux) include app name in notification
- Pull latest translations
Other notable changes
- Advanced output directory selector
- Increase max file name length to 250 (truncation)
- Don't reset playback speed when using special playback modes
- Preserve chapters when merging files that already have chapters
- Don't merge adjacent segments in combineOverlappingSegments
- Don't transfer segment name when filling gaps
- Always scroll up to zoom in
- Increase max keyframes to 10000
- Don't bind ctrl/cmd+c by default (they interfer with copying text)
- Many other improvements and fixes
LosslessCut for Mac
Free
In English
Version 3.69.0
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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.
