This is one of the best video editing software for mac. IMovie is probably good enough for most cases (since v10), and very easy.įfmpeg can do it losslessly (or very close to losslessly), with a bit of fiddling level of difficulty depends on how picky you are about the precise starting point, and frequency of i-frames. Where list_of_videos.txt is a simple text file listing the files you want to concatenate. Based on the info from this answer, it should be something like: ffmpeg -f concat -i list_of_videos.txt -c copy OUTPUT.mp4 pict_type=/ Īnd finally, if you really need to cut somewhere between two i-frames, you can split the video and re-join. The linked answer supplies this command to find a keyframe before a specific time: ffprobe -select_streams v -show_frames -v quiet INPUT.mp4 |
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Full output for each frame of the video can be seen like this: ffprobe -select_streams v -show_frames Essentially you use ffprobe to scan the frames and find the nearest keyframe ( flags=K) before your ideal cut-point. This answer solves that problem using ffprobe and awk, albeit a little awkwardly. So you'll probably want to find the nearest i-frame before your cut. I'm not exactly sure what happens if you cut too early, but I think the video is essentially blank (or maybe corrupt, depending on player) until it encounters an i-frame. The two times specified are start and duration, and can be specified either as seconds or hh:mm:ss.ss, and the -acodec copy and -vcodec copy tell ffmpeg not to re-encode. I don't know of any GUI apps to do this, but basically you run a command something like the following: ffmpeg -i input.m4v -vcodec copy -acodec copy -ss 00:01:20.000 -t 00:37:50.000 output.m4v
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This SO Q&A specifically raises the question of how to cut between i-frames using ffmpeg. If every frame is an i-frame, you can cut anywhere, but if they're only every few seconds, then you can only cut losslessly at those i-frames without losing content or having to re-encode (at least part of the stream) so it can start with an i-frame. There are technical limitations as to how precisely you can cut a video without having to re-encode at least some part of it, and it basically depends on the i-frame frequency. Personally, I generally think a single re-encode isn't a huge problem, but understand you did specifically ask for a lossless solution, so. Premiere or Final Cut) because I think they all generally re-encode on output, though are usually very easy to use for precise trimming. I suspect this part of the answer can apply equally to other 'project driven' video editing software (e.g. It will still, however, re-encode on export so cannot be technically lossless-another new feature, however, is the ability to customise the export quality, which can be closer-to-lossless. IMovie v10 (released some time after the question was originally asked) now better handles more media types, so avoids the import re-encode for most H.264 (mp4, m4v, mov, AVHDC, mts, mt2s) content.
IMovie (not lossless, but better than before) (Most of the sites and most of the software appear very similar as well.) There's clearly a lot of crap out there * I specified "good" because Google is useless for topic as the results are littered with sites offering “reviews” of software that by some mere coïncidence they also happen to sell.
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Cons: appears to be 'abandonware' as it hasn't even seen a minor update in well over a year, MacUpdate reviews are nearly entirely negative, going back to 2009, including slow- or no- responses from the developer.Īre there other good options out there*? If so, what are they, and what are their pros/cons?.Pros: claims to be able to do this (although I tried the demo and found the UI so terrible I can't even verify if it works, and if it does, if it does anything that QuickTime X cannot).Pros: Can make very precise (to the frame) edits.
Cons: can't handle mp4/m4v directly, has to be re-encoded.IMovie ( Free if you have bought a recent Mac) Cons: selector to choose 'start' and 'end' times is not very easy to use to get precise in/out.I have some DRM-free m4v video that I would like to edit by trimming here and there.
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