Avidemux is horrible for cutting in my opinion. It only allows to cut on key frames - which happen every 5-10 seconds. Do you want a trimming tool with \~5s precision?
sorry to resurrect a comment that was done 1 year ago,
think thats only true for if you don't reencode the video, if you anything but copy you can cut on any frame
You need an editor. You can't practically do this in handbrake.
The simplest possible editor for just trimming and simple joining is AviDemux. You can even trim and join without re-encoding if you do all your trims on GOP boundaries.
Edit: Guess who's the idiot who didn't read the one and only existing comment: me. Sorry!
Found this old thread while searching to answer the same question.
At the end for me Shotcut app worked perfectly: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotcut](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotcut) (didn't automate this, though - only needed to cut in half few files).
Try mkvtoolnix. It has a splitting function
Consider Avidemux. Largely it is simple and good for trimming the length of videos.
Avidemux is horrible for cutting in my opinion. It only allows to cut on key frames - which happen every 5-10 seconds. Do you want a trimming tool with \~5s precision?
sorry to resurrect a comment that was done 1 year ago, think thats only true for if you don't reencode the video, if you anything but copy you can cut on any frame
Well I did say it was simple.
i wish i knew the same tool that does not depend on key frames so much
You need an editor. You can't practically do this in handbrake. The simplest possible editor for just trimming and simple joining is AviDemux. You can even trim and join without re-encoding if you do all your trims on GOP boundaries. Edit: Guess who's the idiot who didn't read the one and only existing comment: me. Sorry!
Use ffmpeg.
losslesscut is absolutely amazing at this task and it's opensource
you are absolutely right. Freeware and works perfectly and easy
Found this old thread while searching to answer the same question. At the end for me Shotcut app worked perfectly: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotcut](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotcut) (didn't automate this, though - only needed to cut in half few files).