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Welcome to CutterFF 1.3.5

Mar 28 2026

Version 1.3.5 was released. One bug was fixed: when open a (very) short video seeking to the last gop may fail, if the last frame is a keyframe.
Also a few minor bugs were fixed, and some improvements were done.

CutterFF is a small program for UNIX (Linux, or Windows if compiled with MingW) for cutting videos using FFmpeg and GTK+. You can set cutpoints everywhere in the video and save it to disk, optional using a different format and a bitstream filter. You can select which streams should be written to the output file, so it is also possible to extract the audio only. If your video file contains several programs, you can choose the desired one.
Depending on your libraries you may also save the currently displayed picture as image (e.g. 'jpeg', 'gif', 'png') to disk, the width and the height may be choosen, grayscale is also possible if supported by the encoder.
Since FFmpeg is supporting a lot of formats and codecs, i am not shure if CutterFF will work with all of them. I have tested it with only some formats like 'avi', 'flv' 'mpeg2video', 'mpegts', 'mp4', 'matroska' and 'webm', and some codecs like 'mpeg2video', 'avc (h264)', 'hevc (h265)', 'mpeg4' and 'vp8'.
At least no decoding and encoding is done, the streams will be simply copied, which is done fast.
If soft cutting is enabled, then the frames at the cutpoints will be de- and encoded. The number of frames depends on the GOP-size and may vary. The additional time required for this depends on the number of cutpoints, the number of frames in a GOP and the video encoding ('mpeg2video' is faster than 'hevc'). All the other frames will be copied as mentioned above.

Main window of CutterFF
Save dialog of CutterFF Log window of CutterFF Main window showing the program menu of CutterFF

CutterFF is distributed under the terms of GPL2 or later.

To compile CutterFF, the following is

Downloads

You can download some files from here. Note that only 64-bit versions for Linux and Windows are available.
If you want an other version, you may either download the source and compile it by yourself, or download an older version.

Visit also the CutterFF SourceForge summary page for more information.

Harald Förster

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