WinDV VS Lossless Cut

WinDV Reviews

Lossless Cut Reviews

1. Stephen Todd    

   visiting prof at Goldsmiths | over 2 years ago
   does a specific job very well

   LosslessCut makes it very easy to cut out a section of video. It can also arrange sequences of cuts. It is very fast because it does not reformat the data; that also means it doesn't degrade the quality.

   It only reliably cuts at video keyframes; this could be an issue if you want 100% precision on your cuts. It does not attempt other editing tasks such as reformat or region crop.

   Like many video editors it is a GUI to ffmpeg. You can see the ffmpeg commands generated and use them outside LosslessCut if necessary.

   👍 Pros:    Easy to use|Fast

   👎 Cons:    Limited features

WinDV mentions (11)

• Please help me figure out what kind of av port is this, need a cable to connect to a videocapture device. Thanks.

  According to the manual the cable is a Samsung AD39-00119A. However, even if you find it you shouldn't use it. Video captured over composite cables is low quality. For MiniDV tapes you should use the top port on the camcorder which is a Firewire port. You need a 4 to 6 pin firewire cable and a Firewire PCIE card. I believe it may also be possible to go from Firewire to thunderbolt by using a Firewire 400 to... Source: 10 months ago

• Converting MiniDV to Digital

  If you're on Windows, you can add Firewire to a desktop via a PCIe expansion card - Startech make good ones. Capture can be done with Premiere or WinDV. Source: about 1 year ago

• How can I capture video on my computer with Sony DCR-PC 100 and FireWire?

  Yes, you can. On Windows, you can use WinDV or Scenalyzer to capture through FireWire. Source: over 1 year ago

• Enforcing VEGAS Video Capture to only capture DV tapes as 29.97i

  I think what I would do is try one of the other DV capture utilities. It's not like the quality is going to be any different - the results will be identical. The question is: do any of these still work? Well to my utter surprise, the WinDV site still exists and the software does apparently work on at least Windows 10. So I think I'd try that first. Source: over 1 year ago

• Can’t get Sony DVCAM Footage to capture on Vaio Sony windows vista laptop via FireWire.

  What software are you using? Give WinDV a try, captureflux or ScenalyzerLive. Source: over 1 year ago

Lossless Cut mentions (164)

• Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k in the last 4 months

  For lossless cut, there's the LosslessCut [1] app, which even has an experimental but mostly working version of a "smart cut" feature [2] (aka. Only re-encode the minimal mandatory amount of frames if you trim at a point between 2 key frames) [1]: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut. - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

• Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript

  > thought I cropped/edited a video, it is still there in full length and resolution It's been possible to create a clip from a video file that merely changes what parts of the video are displayed without effecting the data in the original since the Classic Mac OS days. If you want to completely remove unwanted portions of a video to reduce the size without a loss of quality, there are many options. LosslessCut is... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• FFmpeg is getting better with multithreaded transcoding pipelines

  Https://www.vapoursynth.com/ I have seen some niche software built on ffmpeg like losslesscut: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut But I don't know anything "comprehensive.". - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Lossless Cut is my new favourite tool to cut parts from a video without any hassle

  Lossless Cut is probably the simplest way to cut out parts of a video without having to re-encode it or use an online service. It is open source, free and available for all platforms. It is in essence a frontend for FFMPEG and cuts without re-encoding, so the results are instantaneous. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• Tips and utilities to manage collections of videos.

  Additionally I would like if possible to shorten (both to reduce dimension and to make them less boring) my videos by trimming the beginning and/or ends where often there is nothing interesting happening and possibly change the thumbnails for easier identification. Do you know of any tool that does the job with the minimum quality degradation possible? Many years ago I've tried with some videos and a tool I don't... Source: 7 months ago