Cutting out unwanted source video

[wcn_dave]

I do a lot of events, and have to keep the camera rolling all the time.  The end result can be hours of footage with only moments of usable video.

I want to reduce the overall load/space usage etc by cropping to what I need.

I can't see a way to do this in premiere without re-encoding, and a lot of tools out there seem fairly amatuer.  I tried lossslesscut which didn't keep my audio, and I don't really want to go to ffmpeg on command line.

Is there some way to take the in to out points of a source clip and export as a new non re-encoded clip?

[Peru Bob]

Try Shutter Encoder:

https://www.shutterencoder.com/en/.

[wcn_dave]

Thanks, I'm giving this a go!

[Peru Bob]

Let us know how it works for you.

[wcn_dave]

I load up the video, set in and end points, and then click "start function", at which point it pauses for a moment, then beeps, however there's no file output (set to "same as source")

So it's not working for me 😞

[wcn_dave]

Right, so after a bit more playing, thinking about the "only cut on keyframes" message I got, I select the inpoint, then click next keyframe, same on outpoint, and it produced a file.  However there's no audio...

If I convert the audio to mp3, then it works fine.  So not quite non-destructive at first testing...

Any tips?

[wcn_dave]

Oh, and also, it only encodes half the time selected.  If I select inpoint=3mins and out = 4mins, it will extract 30 seconds...
I'll take these questions to reddit, as it seems the tool would be quite good if it worked!

[smrpix]

I will sing the praises of Shutter Encoder from now until doomsday.  But for this sort of work I have never regretted my long-ago purchase of TMPGenc Smart Renderer.  It's fast, the interface is intuitive, and if you cut on non-keyframes it has an excellent render engine that fills in the missing parts seamlessly. 

[wcn_dave]

I used to use TMPGenc authoring tool to create DVD menus back in the days when that how you delivered event/wedding/party/festival footage to people....

I downloaded the trial, however I did find that even with no cutting, and just starting the output, it created a file of a different size, and with a different bitrate... so it must be "doing" something... I don't know what though, as the process for a 25 minute 4GB video took about 60 seconds, so it can't have been rendering... I'll keep trying for a bit, is there a community for that software?

[wcn_dave]

I also didn't find a way to select 10 sections of a clip and do an export to 10 new separate files.

Shutter Encoder looks good for now - once the next release resolves a bug I found that means you only get half the footage specified..