Cutlass 0.2.0

Cutlass 0.2.0

Cut sharper. Own everything.

Windows 10/11 · 64-bit. Free 7-day trial, then $49 once — yours forever. No subscription, no watermark.

New in 0.2.0

• Retiming keeps the footage you were looking at. Changing a clip's speed used to hold its slot on the timeline and pull in whatever footage filled it at the new rate — so speeding a clip up jumped the picture somewhere else and retimed that instead. A retimed clip now gets shorter or longer, the way it does everywhere else, and keeps the footage it had.
• Pan now moves the part of the picture that's actually being cropped. Reframing keeps whichever side of your footage overflows the shape you picked — the sides when a landscape clip goes into a Short, the top and bottom when a phone video goes into a wide frame. The slider only ever moved sideways before, so for vertical footage it did nothing at all, which is the case where the crop discards the most picture.
• Nothing in the editor overlaps itself, whatever the size of the window. Slider names in the Inspector — "Cleanup strength" among them — could vanish under their own sliders when the panel was narrow; they now wrap, and in a very narrow Inspector each slider drops onto its own line beneath its name. Widening a side panel or the timeline can no longer squeeze the player until its controls spill over the panels beside it, and during the trial the banner along the top no longer pushes the bottom of the timeline off the screen.

New in 0.1.3

• "Enhance audio" now does something. The switch was reaching the exporter as "off" no matter how it was set, so the levelling, the music ducking and the loudness match were all quietly skipped. Ticking it now levels your voice and matches the loudness platforms expect — expect exports to sound noticeably more even than before.
• Reframing keeps the framing you chose. Panning a clip to keep your subject in a vertical crop was being dropped on the way to the export, so it came out centred regardless of where you put it.

New in 0.1.2

• Exported audio no longer picks up a faint background hiss. Audio was being encoded at a bitrate where the encoder ran short of bits and spilled its noise unevenly into the left and right channels — barely visible in a meter, clearly audible on headphones, and worst on the near-mono voice recordings this app is mostly used for. Screen recordings had it twice over, because the conversion they get on import was doing the same thing again. Exports now measure identical to the source.

New in 0.1.1

• Drag a video onto the window to import it. This simply did nothing before — now a file dropped anywhere on Cutlass lands in the bin, including on the player, where the first-run message asks you to drop one.
• A first run tells you what to do next instead of telling you what is missing: drop a video, then drag the clip onto a track.
• Export defaults to 1080p — matching the preset the dialog opens on — and never above your footage, because exporting 720p at 1080p cannot add detail and only makes the file bigger.
• A failed export can be tried again or reported, rather than leaving you with an encoder error and a Close button. Your timeline is untouched either way, and several of the things that stop a render clear on a second attempt.

Download

Cutlass_0.2.0_x64-setup.exe (Windows 10/11, 64-bit) — attached below.

Code-signed: Windows shows the publisher as Isaiah Aniemeka. SmartScreen may warn on a new release while its reputation builds — More info → Run anyway.

What Cutlass does

Find your best moments, automatically

Drop in a long recording and Cutlass reads the whole thing, then pulls out the funniest, most exciting and most pivotal moments — each one turned into a captioned vertical clip, ready to post. Real comprehension, not keyword-guessing.

Choose Fast to transcribe on cloud GPUs in seconds, or Private to do it entirely on your own machine. With no connection at all, Private does the whole job locally — finding moments included.

Edit by talking

Delete a sentence in the transcript and the video cuts with it: frame-accurate, rippled shut, undoable. Filler words and dead air are found for you; two clicks and they're gone.

Made for screen recordings

OBS and other variable-frame-rate captures are evened out on import, so cuts and audio stay in sync — no drift, no fiddling. The clip opens straight away and the conversion happens behind it.

Strip copyrighted music off a clip while keeping your voice, on-device. Blur a face, a screen or a name, and the blur follows the subject as they move.

Finish it properly

One-click Looks preview live on your footage, or drop in a .cube LUT, pull green screen and dial colour by hand. One switch on export levels the volume, ducks music under your voice and matches the loudness every platform expects.

Hardware-accelerated H.264 export, plus ProRes and WebM.

Two editors, one app

Create is the clip maker: footage in, captioned vertical clip out. Studio is a full multi-track editor with effects, titles and keyframes. They're independent — experiment in one without touching the other.

Buy it once

$49, one time. No subscription, ever. Every update to the version you own is free. If a big new version ever arrives it'll be an optional paid upgrade, discounted for existing owners, and your copy keeps working exactly as it does today.

Your video never leaves your machine. The AI features send only your audio or transcript, then discard it — never your footage. Your content is yours; Cutlass claims no licence to anything you make.

Known limits

• Windows only. macOS and Linux are on the roadmap.
• SmartScreen reputation is still building, and so is the reputation the installer needs with antivirus software.
• 4K exports are slow by nature. Export at 1080p for long videos.
• Collaboration isn't available in this build.
• The offline moment finder has no comprehension — it can't tell you why a moment works the way the AI can. A good fallback, not a replacement.

Something wrong?

Help → Send beta feedback inside Cutlass, or open an issue. Please include your graphics card, and for anything export-related the clip length and the file size you got.