43.5k stars · GPL-2.0 · v3.69.0 (2026-06-04)
Trim and cut video without re-encoding — an ffmpeg GUI that is genuinely pleasant for a non-programmer.
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What it is
LosslessCut is a desktop program for cutting, trimming and joining video and audio. It copies the existing streams rather than encoding them again, which is why it is fast and does not lose quality.What it is good for. Anyone who records long and publishes short. The obvious jobs are removing the first two minutes before you started talking, splitting a long recording into parts, joining takes, and pulling the audio out of a video. It pairs well with two earlier entries. auto-editor from Edition 13 removes silence automatically; this is for the cuts you want to make by eye. ffmpeg-normalize, also Edition 13, fixes the loudness afterwards.
- Saving takes seconds, not hours, and the picture quality is exactly what came out of the camera.
- It is a window with buttons. Nothing here needs the command line.
- Ready-made downloads for macOS on both chip types, Windows and Linux, including a Raspberry Pi build.
- The licence is GPL-2.0. Using the program is completely free. Putting its code inside a product you sell is not practical.
- It cuts only at existing join points, so a cut can land a fraction of a second away from where you clicked. That is the price of not rebuilding the file.
- The store versions on Mac, Windows and Snap are the paid way to support the author. The GitHub download is the free one, and people confuse the two.
https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/releases/latest
