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I'm a big fan of lossless cut and use it almost every day. Typical use case for me is to trim or edit screen recordings. Since it's lossless, the saving of the

I'm a big fan of lossless cut and use it almost every day. Typical use case for me is to trim or edit screen recordings. Since it's lossless, the saving of the edited videos is almost instantaneous. It's basically just a GUI for ffmpeg. I then use Permute if I need to recompress, or Davinci Resolve if I need to add effects or lossy edits.

radicality 2y ago
Haven’t heard of Permute, but similarly I use LosslessCut and Davinci. Is it this one? https://software.charliemonroe.net/permute/ https://software.charliemonroe.net/permute/ What does it give you that something like Handbrake doesn’t (or even just directly calling ffmpeg)? Seems like a paid app. I don’t mind paying for software if it’s really better than other existing free options.
- nox101 2y ago
  I use handbreak all the time to re-encode to be smaller. A screen-capture video is usually like 1/10th the size after re-encoding so I can upload it to a bug report system. I also find that lots of tools artists are using generate multi-gig files that compress with the default settings in handbreak to 1/10th the size, and at least personally, I can't tell the difference at a glance. I sometimes think the size is being used as a proxy for "quality" so the artist and some of their patrons think larger file size = better
  - kccqzy 2y ago
    I use Handbrake to encode piano practice sessions to be sent to the piano teacher. Since the teacher cares more about audio quality I configure Handbrake to use the original audio stream. I dial down the video quality from the default 24 or so to 28 for lower quality. Artifacts are somewhat visible but acceptable. The multi-gig files from the camera become small enough to be emailed directly. However while Handbrake supports this use case perfectly I don't think there's a way to re-encode the audio but keeping the video. I guess that's when this submission comes handy.
- simple10 2y ago
  Yep! That's the link for Permute. I have it through the SetApp bundle, but it's the same. I use LosslessCut to trim and then Permute to speed up or crop. I almost always speed up my screen recording by 20% to make them feel higher energy and more engaging.

radicality 2y ago

Haven’t heard of Permute, but similarly I use LosslessCut and Davinci. Is it this one? https://software.charliemonroe.net/permute/ https://software.charliemonroe.net/permute/ What does it give you that something like Handbrake doesn’t (or even just directly calling ffmpeg)? Seems like a paid app. I don’t mind paying for software if it’s really better than other existing free options.

nox101 2y ago
I use handbreak all the time to re-encode to be smaller. A screen-capture video is usually like 1/10th the size after re-encoding so I can upload it to a bug report system. I also find that lots of tools artists are using generate multi-gig files that compress with the default settings in handbreak to 1/10th the size, and at least personally, I can't tell the difference at a glance. I sometimes think the size is being used as a proxy for "quality" so the artist and some of their patrons think larger file size = better
- kccqzy 2y ago
  I use Handbrake to encode piano practice sessions to be sent to the piano teacher. Since the teacher cares more about audio quality I configure Handbrake to use the original audio stream. I dial down the video quality from the default 24 or so to 28 for lower quality. Artifacts are somewhat visible but acceptable. The multi-gig files from the camera become small enough to be emailed directly. However while Handbrake supports this use case perfectly I don't think there's a way to re-encode the audio but keeping the video. I guess that's when this submission comes handy.
simple10 2y ago
Yep! That's the link for Permute. I have it through the SetApp bundle, but it's the same. I use LosslessCut to trim and then Permute to speed up or crop. I almost always speed up my screen recording by 20% to make them feel higher energy and more engaging.