In case you want to try it before, and are not scared of a warning the Google would show during the OAuth flow, feel free to reach out to contact@aftercut.studio, and we will get this feature enabled for your account.
Happy to say it's now shipped. You can record another clip into an existing project, reorder segments, drop something in the middle, or just append it at the end.
VideoManual zoom operations are finally easy to do. Just add a Zoom section to the timeline, switch it to manual, and see a new interface for focusing the zoom lens.
The UI for automatic and manual zoom was improved. Confusing zoom points of interest were removed from the interface.
New creative tools, a redesigned interface, and an export engine rebuilt from the ground up. As always, most of this came from watching how you use AfterCut and what you kept asking for. Thank you - keep the feedback coming.
You can now draw blur or pixelate regions directly on your video to hide passwords, emails, API keys, or anything you don't want viewers to see. Add annotations from the timeline, drag them to position, resize from the corners, and adjust the blur intensity, gaussian or pixelate, your pick. They're time-bound, so the blur only appears when you need it.
Captions got a complete overhaul. Choose from cool built-in design presets: Classic, Minimal, Confident, Warm, Calm, Elegant, Dramatic, Playful, Raw, Whimsical - each with its own font, colors, and feel. Or build your own: pick from 12 bundled fonts, set text color, background pill, corner radius, padding, position, and active word highlighting.
The new word-by-word progressive animation reveals each word as it's spoken, with configurable speed and easing. You can also duplicate and customize any preset.
On top of Apple's built-in speech recognition, there's now an AfterCut Cloud transcription option. Better accuracy, especially for technical content. Your audio is processed in real time and not stored.
A small "See what's new" badge now appears in the editor when there's a fresh update. Click it to see the changelog without leaving the app.
The entire export pipeline has been rebuilt from scratch. Frames now render in parallel across multiple workers using Metal GPU acceleration — 2 to 6 render threads depending on your hardware and resolution. Decode, render, and write phases all overlap instead of running one at a time. On a MacBook Pro, expect noticeably shorter export times, especially at higher resolutions.
Motion blur rendering has been improved and now runs through Metal compute shaders. Smoother, more natural-looking blur during fast pan movements with less memory overhead.
The entire UI has been refreshed with a new dark theme built for color accuracy. True neutral backgrounds so your video colors look right. The project library now groups recordings by date (Today, Yesterday, This Week…) and has a cleaner two-column layout.
Capture priority has been tuned so the app runs smoother on base-model MacBooks and older machines. Less frame dropping during recording, and hopefully less system kills of the recording