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Remember / persist more settings & state #371
Description
Some of these settings should only remembered for the current session (reset when restarting losslesscut or when explicitly closing file), while other should persist.
Note: Many of these have keyboard shortcuts that you can bind, making the workflow much faster (even if not remembered).
- Waveform/thumbnails/keyframes button remember last state Waveform button remember last state #751 Persistent/inconsistent settings below timeline [Show waveform/thumbnails/keyframes] #843
- Delete source file Preference for deleting source file confirmation #860 Option to auto delete source files after merge/concat #600 #903
- Convert to supported format choice (currently only remembered for current app launch)
- Import chapters from opened file, remember setting, or have 3 options:
Yes,Ask,NoOption to autoimport chapters #1240 - change jpeg quality parameters (compression and subsampling) when capture a single frame or 'extract all frames of segment' JPG quality of captured frames #1141
- Disable eye candy (animations) Eye candy features making LosslessCut slow on some computers #880 Disabling Animation #1410
- Option to disable blurring of the background in a dialog Option to disable blurring of the background in a dialog #890 UI gets really sluggish when the Settings or Export dialogs are open (any with glassy/blurry background filter) #2879
- Open new file while existing file is loaded, remember choice
- Allow multiple instances
- Black/scene/silence detect dialog parameters etc Remember / persist more settings & state #371 (comment)
- Remember frequently used labels Labeling and tags improvements #427
- Remember output file name templates QoL improvements with file picker, default paths, filenames #2755
- Saved JS expressions Does the JavaScript expression support allow presets to be saved as preferences? #2035 (comment) can't save filter tracks in restart sotf #2651
- Align segment times to keyframes remember last used Align segment times to keyframes remember last used #2127
- Bitrate Smart cut auto detect bitrate #2865
Merge/Concat dialog
- batch list width Few merge panel improvements #2605
- concat/batch dialog selection I always want to "merge" how do I disable pointless dialog? #847
- Remember more merge options Remember compatibility option for joining files #1354
- Save the default [Open Ctrl+O] and [Tools]-[Merge/concatenate Files] folder paths in [File]-[Settings Ctrl+,] for [Custom Open Directory].
Possibly stored in .llc file:
- Save which segments are selected/unselected in .llc file #1329 Remember excluded clips (selected/deselected segments) #885
- Enabled Tracks
- Suggest the option of set by default the Tracks you normal use. #1465
- Discard audio Allow defaulting to no audio export #1135
- Allow remembering selected tracks from previous file (maybe an option?)
- Rotation
- Support multiple sets of segments Support multiple sets of segments in LLC project file #1945
- Store media file location - an absolute path to the media. should probably be stored in a platform independent way (we currently only store
mediaFileName) Project File LLC should store File Location #1385 - Last timeline cursor time and possibly playback speed The ability to remember the last playback speed and the place from which you watched the video. #2581
Other requested features:
- Be able to override any settings from the command line
- Have multiple settings "presets" that can be switched between
- A special setting (checkbox) that when enabled, will cause all other settings to be reset to default (forgotten) once the app gets closed QoL improvements with file picker, default paths, filenames #2755
Reacted by KrisGielen-HPE, AnttiN, jtagcat, Holger Jeromin, SignpostMarv, JavaWiz1, sovalyeler, Sirius986587765 and 921j
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tarve commentedon May 21, 2020
Rotation lock.
combine batch list and merge list #89
allow overriding any stored setting from the command line #371
KrisGielen commentedon May 30, 2022
I +1 for remembering the No Audio option. For most, if not all of my videos, I like to audio to be removed. It's cumbersome to have to click the Keep Audio button every time to switch it to Discard Audio.
improve frame capture
mifi commentedon Jan 6, 2023
next version has a new jpeg quality settting
hulleyrob commentedon Feb 18, 2023
I am constantly changing the black_min_duration for black detect and minChange for scene detect.
Would love for it to either remember my last setting or have a settings option to override the defaults.
remember "allow multiple instances" #371
hulleyrob commentedon Feb 27, 2023
Can I add duration (detect silence scenes) to the list above. (1.0 seems to work better than 2.0 for me)
Mrnofish commentedon Jun 21, 2023
I've upvoted #890 but I'm not sure if that gets noticed, since it's been collapsed in this multi issue (which seems like an effective way to send these to the issue graveyard, BTW).
Since I don't see a surge of upvotes coming for that particular improvement, is there a way to disable the blur from the console or something the like ?
I'm not particular about a pretty switch, I just need to get rid of that nasty, nasty blur.
mifi commentedon Jun 21, 2023
You could try to try to add a CSS rule. if you open developer tools and select the blur background, you could find the rule and disable it. then I think you could also create some javascript that you could paste into the console to add a global css rule to disable it
colemar commentedon Sep 11, 2023
Also Merge/Concatenate files Options should be remembered.
e.g. "Create chapters..." is already remembered, "Always open..." is not.
hulleyrob commentedon May 27, 2024
Is this included in the above as it doesnt seem to have its own checkbox and must be my most made change every time I use the program?
mifi commentedon May 27, 2024
yes it's part of the bullet point "Black/scene/silence detect dialog parameters etc"
14 remaining items
persist segment selected state #1329 #885 #371
toggle tracks by expression #2435 #1465 #371
xeophyte commentedon Oct 24, 2025
Can you add an option in the settings to permanently enable/disable these options? For example, I never use keyframes and when they're enabled, these lines always interfere with my work. Showing the keyframes lines causes confusion on the bar and disorientation with the segments. I prefer clearer bar only showing the segments. This just look bad:
persist settings waveformMode, thumbnailsEnabled, keyframesEnabled
hulleyrob commentedon Oct 26, 2025
Lucky you, and here I am still changing silent detection duration from 2.0 to 1.0 every single launch...
introduce reduce motion setting
mifi commentedon Nov 1, 2025
do you launch the app very often? :)
hulleyrob commentedon Nov 1, 2025
Sadly nearly every time I go to use the app!!!
I just have to many windows open and closing them makes using "stage manager" easier.
xeophyte commentedon Nov 14, 2025
Add remembering of advanced settings switch in the settings.
mifi commentedon Nov 17, 2025
fixed in 251117e
remember advanced settings setting