1.6.3

Download Ripper-Clipper-1.6.3-setup.exe below. Already have it installed? It will offer you the update on its own.

Fixed

YouTube clips came back in the wrong language. Some clips arrived dubbed into German, Spanish or another language instead of the original. Clips now always use the audio the video was actually recorded in.

Already exported a clip that came out dubbed? Export it again and it will be right.

New

Project → Clear this event… — removes every POV and clip so you can start again, while keeping the project you already named. Changed your mind? Ctrl+Z brings it all back.

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Windows will warn that the installer is unsigned — click More info → Run anyway. No admin rights needed.

1.6.2 was withdrawn before release and replaced by this build. Nothing is missing from it.

1.6.2

Withdrawn — use 1.6.3 instead.

This release's tag did not point at the same code as its installer. Nothing was downloaded from it, and 1.6.3 contains everything it was meant to. There is no reason to install this one.

1.6.1

Ripper Clipper 1.6.1

The icon

The application icon is the app's own mark — the player frame and the range bar
from the sidebar, in the accent purple — rather than the unrelated blue wave it
had been shipping with. Installer, executable, taskbar and window all match.

Hand a clip straight to an editor

A finished clip can now be sent to an editing application with the timeline
already built, every angle already synchronised and the watermark already
placed. Send to an editor on the clip panel.

• DaVinci Resolve — a generated Python script you run from Resolve's own
  Scripts menu. It creates the project, imports the angles into a bin, builds
  the timeline with one named track each (POV | Twitch | Name, not "Video 1"),
  and positions the watermark. Nothing is executed on your machine by the app.
• Final Cut Pro — FCPXML, Apple's documented interchange format, with the
  angles on lanes so they play together and the watermark as a transform.
• Movavi — Movavi publishes no project format, so no project file is
  invented. Instead you get the angles numbered in track order and a guide that
  says the thing that matters: every file was cut from the same instant, so drop
  them all at the start of the timeline and they are in sync. Only an angle that
  started recording late needs moving, and the CSV says how far.
• Any other editor — a portable folder with the media, the watermark, a
  JSON manifest and an HTML guide carrying every sync offset and the exact
  watermark numbers.

The export is references, numbers and a small PNG: twenty four-hour angles cost
the same to prepare as two ten-minute ones, because no frame of video is read.
Media is referenced where it already sits unless you ask for it to be copied.

Exports are much faster

• Watermarked clips composite on the GPU. When the watermark is the only
  thing redrawing the picture, the chain is now NVDEC → overlay_cuda → NVENC
  with the frames never leaving the graphics card. The old path copied every
  frame out to system memory and back, which is why a watermarked cut ran at 2×
  realtime while an unwatermarked one finished at download speed.
• Falls back in three steps — GPU composite, then CPU composite with GPU
  encode, then software — so one unlucky driver is not a tenfold slowdown.
• Encoder presets moved for speed with the quality setting untouched: NVENC p5
  → p4, QSV to faster, x264/x265 medium → veryfast.
• Export notes now name the redraw that made a stream copy impossible.

Finding other POVs

• Fixed: the search read the crawled library instead of re-listing every
  channel. Asking "who else filmed this" used to list all 45 saved channels
  live and then ask the platform for a date per broadcast — about a thousand
  requests, most of which YouTube answers with a bot check. The dates never
  arrived, and an undated VOD cannot be matched to a moment, so the search did
  the most work in exactly the case where it returned nothing. It now reads the
  shelf the background crawl has already built.
• Fixed: the dialog re-ran its whole sweep on every render — several times
  a second, for as long as it was open.
• One angle per person. A restreamer on Twitch, Kick and YouTube is one
  angle, not three. Twitch wins a tie, because its VODs are the ones that can be
  placed on the clock most reliably. Someone already on the wall is never
  offered again on another platform.

Timeline

• Much taller by default, with a clips lane whose edges can actually be grabbed.
• Filmstrip under the ruler — frames from the broadcast, fetched one at a
  time and only for the segments they need, so a four-hour view does not
  download four hours.
• Fixed: the playhead stopped partway down when more angles were loaded than
  fitted on screen.

Streamers

• Add a streamer by name. Previously the roster only grew as a side effect
  of loading a POV; there was no way to add a channel you had not clipped yet.
  A bare name is enough — Twitch, Kick and YouTube are each checked for it.
• The page no longer opens on an empty pane, the group chips line up with the
  header, and the detail line wraps instead of losing the end of itself.

Interface

• Text is a step larger and heavier throughout — the scale started at 9.5px.
• The collapsed sidebar's icons sit on one axis. They were 12px left of centre,
  because each row is wrapped in a tooltip that was shrinking to the icon.
• The status bar no longer reports the encoder or an empty queue.

Live

• Live broadcasts load as the recording the platform is already making, so they
  can be watched, clipped and exported while still on air.

1.6.0

Ripper Clipper 1.6.0

Send clips straight to your editor. New button on the clip panel: pick DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut, Movavi or "any editor", and it builds you a project with every angle already lined up and your watermark already in place. No importing twenty files and nudging them into sync by hand. Takes seconds, even with hours of footage.

Exports are a lot faster. Watermarked clips used to crawl. They now use your graphics card properly, so a clip that took half an hour finishes in a few minutes.

"Find other POVs" actually works now. It was hammering every saved channel and usually coming back with nothing. It now answers in about a second.

One angle per streamer. If someone streams to Twitch and Kick at once, you get them once instead of twice. Twitch is preferred.

Add streamers by name. Type a name and it finds them across Twitch, Kick and YouTube. Before, they only got added by loading one of their VODs.

Bigger timeline with thumbnails along it, so you can see what you're cutting instead of guessing from timestamps.

Bigger, bolder text everywhere, plus fixes to the sidebar, the playhead and the Streamers page.

Live streams can now be watched, clipped and downloaded while they're still going.

Ripper Clipper 1.5.0

What's new

• Per-clip POV export selection — each clip on the Export page gets a picker: Main POV (unchanged default), All POVs, or Choose POVs, exporting each selected angle as its own file. A toolbar shortcut applies Main/All to every clip at once.
• Persistent update popup — instead of a one-off toast, a newer version now shows a popup with the version and a changelog summary (pulled from the GitHub release) and a Download/Restart button, reappearing on every launch until you actually update.
• Cold-start automatic multi-POV sync — a POV with no timing at all (no manual anchor, no usable metadata) can now be aligned automatically: it searches an already-synced sibling POV's audio across the entire untimed recording, rather than requiring an existing rough estimate to nudge. Triggered from the POV bar when a POV shows "Not aligned," with live progress since it's a genuine search, not instant.
• Faster scrubbing option — Settings → Appearance → "Prefer fast scrubbing over preview picture quality" makes built previews downscale to a lighter 480p proxy, smaller and quicker to seek within. Exporting is unaffected either way.
• Remove button on grid tiles — the multi-cam grid view can now drop a POV directly from each tile (hover to reveal), not just from the POV bar.

Notes

• Unsigned build — Windows SmartScreen will warn on first run ("More info" → "Run anyway"). Per-user install, no admin rights needed.
• If you're updating from 1.1.0 or later, the in-app updater (Settings → Diagnostics → Check for updates) can find and install this release directly — and yes, that popup is now verified working against this very feed.

Ripper Clipper 1.4.0

What's new

17 quality-of-life features, grouped by where they land:

Clips

• Creating a clip now prompts for a name (leave it blank for the old automatic naming).
• Multi-select clips (Ctrl/Shift-click) and apply a tag to all of them at once.
• Sort the clip list by duration, POV count, or newest first, alongside the existing manual drag order.
• A warning badge on clips that overlap another by more than half their length — catches the same moment marked twice.
• A clip count and total duration summary in the list header.

Export

• Reorder the export queue with up/down buttons — also changes run priority for jobs that haven't started yet.
• Mark a preset as default so new projects start with it automatically.
• An optional short completion chime (Settings → Export), alongside the existing toast and notification.
• A "copy path" button on finished exports.

Streamers

• Pin favourite streamers to the top of the list with a star.
• Copy a streamer's channel link in one click.
• A "checked Xm ago" indicator on the VOD list with a manual refresh button.
• Removing a streamer now offers an "Undo" right on the toast — restores the exact entry, groups and links intact, not a blank re-add.

App

• Ctrl+K opens a command palette over every clip and every dialog-opening action.
• "Reopen last closed project" in the Project menu.
• A close guard: quitting with unsaved changes (titlebar button, Alt+F4, taskbar) now asks first instead of losing them silently.
• The shortcut cheat-sheet (the ? help icon) now lists Ctrl+K too.

Notes

• Unsigned build — Windows SmartScreen will warn on first run ("More info" → "Run anyway"). Per-user install, no admin rights needed.
• If you're updating from 1.1.0 or later, the in-app updater (Settings → Diagnostics → Check for updates) can find and install this release directly.

Ripper Clipper 1.3.0

What's new

Streamer groups, built out end to end this session:

• Groups with a real look — create a group (e.g. "PD", "Ballas", "EMS") with a colour and an icon from the app's own icon set (shield, car, medical, skull, crown, flame, star, briefcase) — no emoji involved.
• Group filter as a dropdown — the streamer list's group filter is now a compact dropdown instead of a row of chips that would only grow over time.
• Sort "who was live" results by group — both the "Live during a clip" and "Who was live at a time" searches can be sorted by group as well as by closest time, so everyone on one side of an event reads as one block.
• Bulk-import a whole group — a colour-matched "Import PD (4)" style button per group lets you pull in every not-yet-loaded POV for that group in one click.
• Twitch and YouTube VOD dates — VOD listings for these platforms now show a broadcast date, matching what Kick already showed.
• Bulk-add streamers — paste a list of channels (one per line, a link or a bare name) into the new "bulk add" panel instead of adding them one at a time.
• Same-person multistream linking — link two saved streamers (e.g. a Kick and a Twitch channel) as the same real person; when both cover the same moment in a search, the app checks their actual resolution and flags the lower-quality copy instead of showing the same broadcast twice.

Notes

• Unsigned build — Windows SmartScreen will warn on first run ("More info" → "Run anyway"). Per-user install, no admin rights needed.
• If you're updating from 1.1.0 or later, the in-app updater (Settings → Diagnostics → Check for updates) can find and install this release directly.

Ripper Clipper 1.2.0

What's new

• "Find in all POVs" is now bound to F, on top of the existing toolbar button.
• Recent projects appear directly in the Project menu (up to 6), not just as the Open dialog's default folder.
• Export-summary toast — "4 of 5 exported, 1 failed" when a batch finishes, alongside the existing per-clip toasts.
• Disk-space warning on the Export page — real free space shown next to the output folder, warns before a batch starts if it's under 5GB.
• CSV export of the clip list — name, POVs, duration, resolution, watermark status, destination path.
• Clip triage tags — a short free-text label ("Highlight", "Needs review") with an automatically assigned colour, no picker needed.
• Export presets — save the current quality/container/cutting/filename settings as a named, reusable preset.
• System tray icon with a native notification when an export batch finishes and the window isn't focused.

Notes

• Unsigned build — Windows SmartScreen will warn on first run ("More info" → "Run anyway"). Per-user install, no admin rights needed.
• If you're updating from 1.1.0 or later, the in-app updater (Settings → Diagnostics → Check for updates) can find and install this release directly.

Ripper Clipper 1.1.0

What's new

• Three build channels (stable / experimental / dev) so upcoming changes can be tried in a real installed build before they ship — this Editor-free public build is the stable channel.
• Duplicate-VOD detection — pasting a VOD that's already in your project switches to it instead of adding a second copy.
• Rolling project backups — every save keeps a snapshot of the previous version (10 kept), restorable from Project → Version history.
• Auto-update checking — checks this feed on launch, plus a "Check for updates" button in Settings → Diagnostics. Downloads and installs only ever happen with an explicit click.
• Audio-based sync cross-check — POV timing is now corroborated by matching audio between angles automatically, with a manual "Re-validate" action per POV.
• Every export now states which encoder it actually used (hardware or software), and AV1 sources can export as real AV1 when hardware support is available.
• Hardware-accelerated encoding (NVENC/QSV/AMF) is confirmed as the default whenever it's available and working, with automatic software fallback.

Notes

• Unsigned build — Windows SmartScreen will warn on first run ("More info" → "Run anyway"). Per-user install, no admin rights needed.
• Requires internet access on first launch to fetch FFmpeg and yt-dlp if not already present.

Ripper Clipper 1.0.0

First public release.

Ripper Clipper is a multi-POV VOD clipping tool for Twitch, Kick and YouTube — built for cutting the same real-world moment out of several streamers' broadcasts at once, without downloading anything you don't need.

Download

Run Ripper Clipper-1.0.0-setup.exe below and follow the installer. Everything it needs (FFmpeg, yt-dlp) is bundled — nothing else to install.

Note: this build isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen will show an "unrecognized app" warning on first run. Click More info → Run anyway to proceed.

What it does

• Load VODs from Twitch, Kick and YouTube
• Load multiple POVs of the same event and keep them synchronised on a shared real-world timeline
• Cut clips once and have them automatically map to every synced POV
• Per-POV watermarks, audio overrides, and hand-drawn mute/duck/bleep edits
• Export via FFmpeg, with stream-copy used wherever a re-encode isn't actually needed

Known limitations

• Unsigned installer (SmartScreen warning on first run, see above)
• Windows only for this release