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Awesome tool. I hope it gets a Linux release some day :)

As a DaVinci Resolve user I'm amazed at how good the Smooth Cut transition is at hiding cuts if the head moved very little during the cut portion of the video. It might be worth exploring more and seeing if it would make sense as an optional flag.

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Maybe some day it will come to Linux! I think technically most of it would already work there, but some stuff requires native windowing API calls that I'll need to figure out and port over... plus all the install/distribution stuff... and the, uh, enhanced surface area for support haha. It would be awesome to get it running on Linux though.

I haven't played with Smooth Cut, I'll have to check that out. It sounds handy! Might be something I could just "turn on" in the XML file too, I'm not sure.

we linux users sometimes don't need any windows. Maybe you could also develop a cli version? Then something like this would be possible: recut input.mp4 --padding=123 --output=video output.mp4 btw, you created an impressive software. Very useful!

A CLI would be pretty cool, but personally I think much of the value of Recut comes from the live preview of what you're doing - having to export a 20 minute video only to re-export it again because the padding was too short is cumbersome to say the least.

Yeah, 100%, this is why I made Recut in the first place. The CLI approach would be great to support though and I can see some other really nice side effects of having that, like being able to batch-edit a whole folder of videos.

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