Lazycut
Shares rank 16 of 20 video editors by recommenders
Simple terminal video trimmer that wraps a single FFmpeg call, useful for automation. Critics say it lacks audio support.
Simple terminal video trimmer that wraps a single FFmpeg call, useful for automation. Critics say it lacks audio support.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 4
- approval share
- 60%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Pipes well into automation workflows
“The moment you can pipe it into other commands, it becomes much more useful in automation workflows.”
Comment from 16 Mar 2026 in “Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg” Simple wrapper around FFmpeg CLI
“there's just a single call to FFmpeg CLI to power the whole thing which is amazing”
Comment from 16 Mar 2026 in “Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Does not solve the accessibility issue
“the tool above doesn't seem to make this any more accessible either according to the sibling comment”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg” “I don't think this program will solve that issue either?”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg”
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| LazycutThis page | 6 | 4 | 60% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
7 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“this tool was just doing `-ss -i -t` from its demo gif”
“the tool above doesn't seem to make this any more accessible either according to the sibling comment”
“I don't think this program will solve that issue either?”
“The moment you can pipe it into other commands, it becomes much more useful in automation workflows.”
“I haven't implemented audio support yet, but it would be nice”
“there's just a single call to FFmpeg CLI to power the whole thing which is amazing”
“Having to separately download ffmpeg in the windows distribution does not really make sense”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.