lossless-cut VS shotcut

Impressive, but I'll stick with LosslessCut (https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut)

I don't know about ffslice, but you can get frame-perfect slicing with minimal reencoding via LosslessCut's experimental "smart cut" feature[2] or Smart Media Cutter's[3] smartcut[4].

[1] https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

[2] https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126

[3] https://smartmediacutter.com/

[4] https://github.com/skeskinen/smartcut

Yes, https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

(See also: Kdenlive)

I don't agree that's a good definition of friendly but that's ok.

I recently found LosslessCut (https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut) that is basically a GUI for ffmpeg, you can make simple edits without re-encoding the stream.

For lossless cut, there's the LosslessCut [1] app, which even has an experimental but mostly working version of a "smart cut" feature [2] (aka. only re-encode the minimal mandatory amount of frames if you trim at a point between 2 key frames)

[1]: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

[2]: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126

> thought I cropped/edited a video, it is still there in full length and resolution

It's been possible to create a clip from a video file that merely changes what parts of the video are displayed without effecting the data in the original since the Classic Mac OS days.

If you want to completely remove unwanted portions of a video to reduce the size without a loss of quality, there are many options. LosslessCut is one option that is both free and open source.

https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut

LosslessCut

I used https://www.shotcut.org/ to edit a few videos, it has many effects.

For live streaming https://obsproject.com/ but I don't remember too much.

I've used Shotcut, it's simple and easy: https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut

I've tried Kdenlive, but honestly, shotcut met my needs, so I didn't explore it too much: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive

DaVinci Resolve is also available for linux. I've never used it though.

Shotcut is an open source Video production toolkit that is basically just a really nice interface for generating ffmpeg commands.

https://www.shotcut.org/

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I would have expected a bit more from the main page.

For the FOSS video editing software out there, I tried out Shotcut (https://www.shotcut.org/) and OpenShot (https://www.openshot.org/), though both of them were either a bit unpolished or unstable, with the occasional crash along the way.

I had a way better experience with kdenlive, which was my main video editor for a bit, has the basic features I'd expect, as well as decent codec support: https://kdenlive.org/

As for other options, DaVinci Resolve still feels like the more professional software suite that you'd go for, sans the cost, albeit the UI can be a bit awkward in places to someone used to the likes of kdenlive/Sony Vegas: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve

Did you try Shotcut? https://www.shotcut.org/

I had the same bad experience than you with Pitivi, Openshot and KDEnlive. Then I discovered shotcut and I was finally able to work. And it's FLOSS.

Shotcut

Some free options include Kdenlive and Shotcut. I would have previously recommended Wondershare Filmora, but they recently did some pretty shady things with their licensing and I'd avoid them now despite the software actually being quite good.

The biggest name is Kdenlive. I've also used Shotcut before, but I edit smth like once a year, so I'm not an expert