README.md

What is Fast Cut?

Fast Cut allows to visually cut and join videos then export them losslessly.

The main purposes are to

• join camcorder footages and
• clean a recording from the commercial breaks.

Fast Cut provides a graphical user interface for FFmpeg, you could use your own ffmpeg binaries. It is based on luajls and supports both Linux and Windows OSes. Mac OS is not supported as I do not have access to.

The main supported format is MPEG Transport Stream (ts, m2ts) to MPEG-4 Part 14 (mp4), but any FFmpeg supported format could be used.

If you need advanced features you could try LosslessCut or OpenShot.

What are the features?

Fast Cut provides:

• frame preview, no audio
• preview time line with cut parts
• binary search to find a cut point
• lossless export when supported by codecs and format
• could run on a remote server such as a NAS
• small, under 1Mb without FFmpeg
• plain lua, html and javascript, no compiler

What does it look like?

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9386420/144749626-fd66a1c7-0c76-4cbc-80d1-9242f5c8f487.mp4

How to install it?

Grab the last release, download FFmpeg if needed and provide the FFmpeg location at startup using the -ffmpeg argument.