> This is a thin wrapper around ffmpeg, which does all of the real work here and is a much more powerful and versatile tool. Why does this ship an entire web browser? Why does this even exist? The world may never know.
You answered "Why does this even exist?" yourself, it's a thin wrapper around ffmpeg. It provides a reasonably usable and friendly GUI to perform the kind of basic cuts a lot of people want to do with their video.
When I have two hours of GoPro footage I want to chop up in to a quick and dirty highlight reel, which one do you think I'm going to choose?
1. Fire up my favorite video player, scrub through every file noting the start and end times of every segment, turn each of those segment times in to a ffmpeg command line, and throw all those in a script.
2. Fire up LosslessCut, scrub through every video clicking "start segment" and "end segment" as appropriate, click "Export"
It ships a whole web browser because unfortunately that's the easiest way to make a cross platform GUI app these days, and they get video playback support "for free" (though this does result in some limitations with codecs other than H.264). Yes it's heavier than it could be, but I'm editing video here, I don't really care about megabytes of hard disk space or RAM.
There's nothing else like it as far as I'm aware. AviDemux only does one cut at a time, VirtualDub doesn't even run on non-Windows platforms.
You answered "Why does this even exist?" yourself, it's a thin wrapper around ffmpeg. It provides a reasonably usable and friendly GUI to perform the kind of basic cuts a lot of people want to do with their video.
When I have two hours of GoPro footage I want to chop up in to a quick and dirty highlight reel, which one do you think I'm going to choose?
1. Fire up my favorite video player, scrub through every file noting the start and end times of every segment, turn each of those segment times in to a ffmpeg command line, and throw all those in a script.
2. Fire up LosslessCut, scrub through every video clicking "start segment" and "end segment" as appropriate, click "Export"
It ships a whole web browser because unfortunately that's the easiest way to make a cross platform GUI app these days, and they get video playback support "for free" (though this does result in some limitations with codecs other than H.264). Yes it's heavier than it could be, but I'm editing video here, I don't really care about megabytes of hard disk space or RAM.
There's nothing else like it as far as I'm aware. AviDemux only does one cut at a time, VirtualDub doesn't even run on non-Windows platforms.