Option to just cut a video without any other processing

Hi,

As the title says, I would like to have an option to just cut a video without any processing incl not any encoder/export processing except of course the cutting itself.

Thank you!

I would say that using Video AI for that purpose would be overkill. May I suggest the free utility MP4Tools. It can either split or join MP4 files. It is easy to use and is lossless.

https://www.mp4joiner.org/en/

You can already do this. Just trim the video and then export.

Thank you, but this doesn’t seem to work with x265 videos (nor AV1), so not an option.

Unfortunately this is not true. You can only cut at the beginning or at the end and you need to re-process.

I would suggest Avidemux.

https://avidemux.sourceforge.net/

Thank you, I tested this, too, but got an error message there.

Maybe it’s me? You all claim these tools to work? Not sure what is so special about my files, though.

In any case, shouldn’t be that hard to offer this right from Topaz’ solution…

I’ve never tried Avidemux with x265 or AV1 specifically, but trimming long GOP codec video without re-encoding can be fraught with potential issues.

My next suggestion would be LosslessCut, which like TVAI is based around ffmpeg. If that can’t do it, then I doubt TVAI could do it.

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

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That did the trick. Thank you VERY much!!