LosslessCut 1.13
There was a time when QuickTime was more than just a playback utility; I used it frequently to perform simple video edits, like removing commercials from an off-air recording or tacking the contents of one file on the end of another.
Since those days ended with the deprecation of classic QuickTime, I’ve never really had a go-to utility for these kinds of trims.
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Apple [eventually] added editing features back to QuickTime Player. […] The issue is that the final file you save is a MOV container featuring those clips, which […] means that in the end you have to re-encode the video to get a seamless mp4 file for a video podcast.
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This time, I decided to look for a visual utility (i.e., not something I have to drive from Terminal) that could solve this problem. And I found it: the open-source app LosslessCut, which provides a nice interface atop the powerful FFmpeg command-line app.
Previously:
- Goodbye, QuickTime 7 and JPEG 2000
- The Origins of QuickTime
- AV Foundation and the Void
- What Is Apple Doing With QuickTime?
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I created Trimma.app for pretty much the same purpose: to quickly cut out parts of a video. It uses AVFoundation's passthrough encoding for super fast export. As of version 2 it even supports audio files..
@Karsten Does the audio export do passthrough encoding, so you can trim an .mp3 and save-out without re-encoding / generational loss on the file?
well, mp3 is another story entirely. AVFoundation cannot export mp3 so passthrough is not an option for mp3 files. However, reencoding mp3 files is not as slow as it used to be 2001, so that's not actually a problem.
While i was at it, i also added QOA support, which i think not too many apps support but QOA is such a nice format i just had to add it for the sake of adding it.
If you're interested, check it out at https://trimma.app
