Chop Chop Splitter

Chop Chop Splitter is a small, focused video cutter for people who just want to cut a clip out of a video or split a long recording into pieces — fast. You open a video, drag two handles on the timeline (or type exact times like HH:MM:SS.mmm), and press Cut clip, or switch to Batch split to divide the whole video every N minutes/seconds or into N equal parts. A live preview shows the exact start and end frame as you move.

Cuts are frame-accurate and almost lossless: FFmpeg re-encodes only the few frames between each cut and the nearest keyframe, keeping the source codec (H.264 or HEVC), profile and pixel format, while everything else is copied and joined without re-encoding — so no frame is duplicated or dropped and quality stays at the source level. Videos that cannot be cut this way (other codecs, open-GOP streams) fall back to re-encoding to H.264, on the GPU where available (NVIDIA NVENC, AMD AMF, Intel Quick Sync, or VA-API on Linux). Audio can be exported on its own as WAV, MP3, OGG, FLAC, M4A or Opus, one file per part in batch mode.

Where full commercial editors like Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or Filmora wrap cutting inside a heavy timeline with rendering, Chop Chop Splitter does one job — cutting and splitting — with no timeline, transitions or export settings. It is written in Rust, ships as a GTK 3 app on Ubuntu and a native Win32 app on Windows, is translated into English, Portuguese, Spanish and Greek, and is free and open source under the MIT license.