#Xtocc utility free pro

Precut lets you to take an Adobe Premiere exported project (FCP7 XML export) and generate video files from each of the edits within it. I wanted the ability to use Premiere's powerful and familiar editing facilities. The problem with these utilities is that they have a relatively basic visual interface for performing edits. There are some excellent utilities available that let you extract individual clips from your media files without recompression, including MPEG Streamclip and Avidemux. What I was looking for was the ability to cull or prune my source media files to save space, but without any loss of quality from recompression.

The problem with Premiere's Project Manager is that it requires you to transocde your source media files, which means not only a generational loss in quality due to recompression but also no real savings in storage space because Premiere uses a lightly-compressed codec for the transcoded files, especially compared to the typical H.264 files I use as my original video codec. Actually Premiere does have a way to do this using their Project Manager. This requires me to retain the entire source file since Premiere doesn't provide a way to extract and keep only the portions of the media files I use. The problem though is my footage is contained across many source video files, and I may only use a small portion of each file. But I don't want to keep all the source video - I only want to keep the portions used in my project. When I'm done with a project I generally keep my source video, in case I ever need to go back and perform changes and re-render. On my projects I typically have a large amount of source footage, from which I use only a small percentage in my final rendered video. The reason I developed Precut was to solve a storage issue in my video workflow. And it does does this without requiring any re-encoding or re-compression, which means no quality or generational loss. Precut allows you take edits you performed inside an Adobe Premiere project and use them to prune your source media into much smaller files, containing only the portions of the video referenced in your edit. Precut works on any platform that supports the Python interpreter, including Windows, Mac, and Linux.

For example, you can start with a 30-minute H.264 file, perform edits in Premiere to cull your video down to only the 5 minutes of footage you need, then have Precut produce a single video file containing only the footage included in your Premiere edits - without any loss of quality from transcoding. Precut then uses the exported XML file to find all the edits you performed in Premiere, creating an individual clip for each edit or, more usefully, a combined video file that contains all the individual edits grouped together by track, sequence, or original source media file.

#Xtocc utility free pro

You perform your rough edits in Premiere Pro using all the standard editing tools you're already familiar with, then export your project using Premiere's File -> Export -> Final Cut Pro XML feature. Unlike other video-file splitters such as MPEG Streamclip, Avidemux, and SolveigMM AVI Trimmer+MKV, Precut lets you use Premiere Pro for your culling. This is the official homepage for Precut, my open-source utility for extracting only the portions of video you need from your source media files, allowing you to save storage space without any loss of quality from transcoding. Precut - Adobe Premiere source edits without transcoding