Extract section from Premiere without re-compression Is there a way to use premiere like the hundreds of other "cheap" video cutters out there?

I need a quick way to select a portion of video, for example our source footage is often 1h long, and we need to cut out many 30s clips.

However, this needs to be a fast process, and we cant re-compress those clips on the export.

We have premiere pro, can this do the job? Every time I try, it wants to compress the footage.
I know this is an old question abandoned by the asker, but I use ffmpeg to stream copy (re-mux) sections.

Example 1: Single output

Skip first 14 minutes and make a 30 second output:

ffmpeg -ss 00:14:00 -i input -t 30 -c copy -map 0 output



This will not re-encode, so the process is quick and preserves the quality.
Depending on your input format the output may not be exactly from the desired time, but usually it's close enough. See the -ss option in the FFmpeg documentation for more info.


Example 2: One segment of every n seconds

Use the segment muxer:

ffmpeg -i input -c copy -map 0 -segment_time 30 -f segment output%03d.foo



This will not re-encode, so the process is quick and preserves the quality.
Note that splitting may not be accurate, unless you force the reference stream key-frames at the given time. See the segment muxer documentation for more info.