In VirtualDub, you cut and split your videos by selecting segments and deleting them, moving them, or saving them as separate files. You can do any of these things without actually processing your videos (which means that you can leave them in their original format and not spend half an hour waiting for VirtualDub struggling to recompress each video) - just be sure to select Direct Stream Copy under the Video menu.

As a linear video editor, VirtualDub can easily replace a video cutter, a video splitter, and a video joiner. VirtualDub is an open-source linear video editor, and it can do many things that you'd generally install separate apps for, and pretty expensive ones too! Simple video editing

And no, I'm not talking about those 'generous' free video dub apps that don't do anything - like, say, the aptly named Free Video Dub - which generally have twice as many users as VirtualDub. I think it's a safe bet you haven't heard about VirtualDub. And so every penny those people spend buying the paid app is a lost download for the poor chap who actually created that video splitter in the first place, open-sourced it, and is now busy trying to squeeze out some time between his nine-to-five job and his family to update the bloody thing. Because you can usually bet the same £30 that he didn't write a single line of code and just stole an open-source app that does the same thing. Being a strong apologist of open-source software that I am, it always pains me to see people willing to fork out as much as £30 to a shady third-world developer for a one-button video splitter. There's a fine line between paying for convenience and paying out of laziness, and you've got to learn to recognise it.

Video cutter open source