Software for trimming video on OSX (without reencoding)

[Bjorn Jarnankar]

Hi everyone,

Sorry for double post if this questions is already covered, I've been googling for 1 hour without any decent find.

I'm fairly new with my DJI Mavic Pro and find myself making a lot of long clips while flying. These long clips will soon ad up and be too much to save for future new edits so I would like a software that can quickly trim the beginning and ends WITHOUT re-encoding (since I'd like no loss in quality at this point in my workflow).

I'm working on a Macbook Pro and can spend some bucks if the software is good. Freeware is even better. Is there any option at all out there?

Thanks in advance.

 

[FantasticMrF]

Hi everyone,

Sorry for double post if this questions is already covered, I've been googling for 1 hour without any decent find.

I'm fairly new with my DJI Mavic Pro and find myself making a lot of long clips while flying. These long clips will soon ad up and be too much to save for future new edits so I would like a software that can quickly trim the beginning and ends WITHOUT re-encoding (since I'd like no loss in quality at this point in my workflow).

I'm working on a Macbook Pro and can spend some bucks if the software is good. Freeware is even better. Is there any option at all out there?

Thanks in advance.

im in the same position as you, currently using iMovie haha!

 

[halley]

If you're comfortable with using the command line, I would recommend ffmpeg. You can do lossless trims from any timestamp to any timestamp (automatically adjusted to last full keyframe).

TheDiveO/Int'l: Trimming Video Files Lossless Using ffmpeg

It looks like someone made a cross-platform GUI wrapper around ffmpeg for this task, but I haven't tried it.

GitHub - mifi/lossless-cut: Cross platform GUI tool for lossless trimming / cutting of video and audio files using ffmpeg

 

[Marine0302G2/8]

Hi everyone,

Sorry for double post if this questions is already covered, I've been googling for 1 hour without any decent find.

I'm fairly new with my DJI Mavic Pro and find myself making a lot of long clips while flying. These long clips will soon ad up and be too much to save for future new edits so I would like a software that can quickly trim the beginning and ends WITHOUT re-encoding (since I'd like no loss in quality at this point in my workflow).

I'm working on a Macbook Pro and can spend some bucks if the software is good. Freeware is even better. Is there any option at all out there?

Thanks in advance.

Cyber Link Power Director it is not free but it is cheap $59.00 and very user friendly

 

[Bjorn Jarnankar]

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I'll check them out.

For now I'm using Quicktime, which I understand can trim without any loss in quality (on a mac).