Export without file conversion

[gilgaladpe450]

I know it sounds counterintuitive since it’s a video editor, but I wonder if there’s a way to either export a video with no codec conversion beyond source file original, or don’t use no codec conversion at all such as ffmpeg tools out there, mkvtoolnix…

Use case: When one simply trim some parts out of it.

[brian]

See here:

Properties > Extract Sub-clip

Shotcut can not “pass through” or copy codecs without re-encoding. The closest thing available to that is Properties > menu > Extract sub-clip, which uses the in and out points of a trimmed clip. [image] Extract sub-clip will find the key frame closest to the in/out points and copy the codecs into a new container without re-encoding. Any filters applied to the clip will not be applied to the sub-clip because that would require re-encoding. This feature has some limitations and may not always…