Still cuts 3 seconds from beginning of video

[RBoy]

Did you modify the mcebuddy.conf file also FFMpegBackupRemux section?

See this post:

How to Fix Initial 6-8 Seconds of Recording Missing/Cut after Conversions

Starting 2.4.9 MCEBuddy won’t skip any part of the video by default Instructions for 2.4.8 and older This is by design and happens because the profile is setup to skip the first few seconds. Many videos have corrupted starting points hence as a precaution the first few seconds are skipped. To correct this you need to make 2 changes: Open mcebuddy.conf, under the section ffmpegbackupremux remove the -ss 5 from all the lines Open profiles.conf, find your profile and remove -ss 3 and --start…