Which video editor would Holla Forums recommend?

Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection. Treat the whole suite like a single conglomerate application.

I'd recommend Blender if I could actually figure how to edit easily with the damn thing. Until that time, still sticking with VirtualDub.

What I find really frustrating about cutting in ffmpeg is that there's no way to specify a cut based on frame count. You can only cut using time approximations.

Shotcut for simple things, Adobeshit for anything more.
The favorite video editor of people who never edit video.

how do you expect to cut out a B frame when you haven't found the last P or I frame?

ffmpeg obviously
everything else is bloat and overengineering for such a simple task

ffmpeg can do this even without re-encoding the whole thing, so you can keep original quality and not waste space.

Dunno, but Virtualdub manages to pull off precision frame cutting perfectly fine. Clearly there must be a way.

Depends on the codec, but any codec that has B frames, it is likely adding together all the frames up to the selected frame to form a full I frame, and then you end up using that.

No need for re-encoding, eh?
That's definitely worth a look into.

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