VidCutter is a modern, simple to use media cutter and joiner.
It offers frame-accurate SmartCut technology, chapter support, media stream selection for audio and subtitle channels. There’s also blackdetect video filter support to automatically detect scene changes or skip commercial in digital TV recording.
VidCutter is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Attractive, simple to use Qt5 based interface. The utility provides some essential functions that will get you started editing almost immediately without much learning.
- OpenGL hardware accelerated playback (courtesy of libmpv).
- Lossless, fast media cutting and joining (supported by the power of FFmpeg).
- Detailed media metadata information.
- Timeline thumbnails for more accurate seeking.
- SmartCut – frame-accurate cutting option (this option is not enabled by default).
- Reorder clips.
- Chapter support allowing scene chapter names to be included in final media metadata
- Flatpak and AppImage releases are available.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/ozmartian/vidcutter
Support:
Developer: Pete Alexandrou and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
VidCutter is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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