I’m looking for a quick uncomplicated way to cut video to segments under 5 mins in order to populate Day One using my Mac.
I appreciate there my be iOS methods and I am not opposed to hearing about those, but I am wondering whether anyone in the community can recommend anything that they rely on?
I have Screenflow and iMovie but I am looking for something that literally allows me to cut before 5 mins to create how ever many videos it takes to complete the project before populating Day One.
I’m not aware of any way to cut a video into 5 minute segments automatically.
I’m sure that you could find a way to script ffmpeg to do this, but I’m not that level of Jedi.
There is a free app called LosslessCut which you can find on GitHub:
You can load the video into LosslessCut and use o for “out” and i for “in”. You can select the timeline with your mouse and then use the arrow keys to do more fine selections.
Go to 4m59s, press o for ‘out’.
Go to 5m00s, press i for “in”.
Go to 9m59s, press o for ‘out’.
Go to 10m00s, press i for “in”.
etc
Then you can export from LosslessCut as separate files (you’ll need to set that in the preferences, otherwise it will merge the files, which will definitely defeat your purpose!)
HTH. The UI of the app isn’t lovely, but it works well. It’s the best option that I’ve found since QuickTime 7 is no longer a viable option.