PowerCut for Mac
Your rough cut, in minutes.
Drop in raw talking-head footage. Get a clean first cut back, on your Mac.
Free for 7 days with export. Then $79 once, with lifetime updates. The editor stays free.
5.0 from 8 verified reviewsEasily worth every cent for the time it saves on every single project.
Endy, Final Cut Pro editor
Needs Apple Silicon + macOS 26
Dead air, fumbles and the takes you didn't use, struck before you sit down.
Auto Edit Pass
The ums, pauses and retakes, struck for you.
Every cut is labeled with why it was made. Nothing is deleted, and one click restores it.
Paper edit
Edit the transcript like a document.
Strike a sentence and the cut follows. Move a paragraph and the edit moves with it.
Export
A clean timeline in your editor.
Frame-accurate and pointing at your original files, for Final Cut Pro, Resolve or Premiere. Captions too.
Translate · beta
Footage in another language? Read it in English.
Whisper writes the transcript in English on your Mac, every word timed to where it was spoken.
PowerCut basically handles that entire first pass for you. What blew me away is that it runs 100% on-device on Apple Silicon.
So I downloaded the 7-day trial, edited one video with it... and bought it immediately afterward. Seriously. One video was enough.
I use it all the time and cuts (no pun intended) down my editing time with hours.
It’s a hell of a job to find a good story out of all those interviews footage you have making a documentary. What if you could read and strike trough all the sentences you don’t need to tell that story. …
It's so precise! Can't thank you enough for making this!
I was impressed with the app from the very first try. It truly helps speed up the editing process. Deffo recommended (and I have tried many!)
Power Cut another Perfect App for Final Cut Pro From Rafael Ludwig.
Pricing
Try it free. Pay once if you keep it.
Prices in USD. One-time purchase. No account needed to try.
- 7 days, everything on, export included
- Then the editor stays free, forever
- Only export locks
- Unlimited export to FCP, Resolve, Premiere
- Caption export (.srt)
- Every future update and language
- Pay once, never again
7 days free, then 14 days money back. One email to apps@rafaelludwig.com, no questions.
Questions
Does my footage get uploaded?
No. Transcription, take detection, everything runs on your Mac using on-device models. PowerCut works with the network cable unplugged. The only network calls are license activation and the update check.
What does the export give me?
A cuts-only, frame-accurate timeline, landscape or vertical to match the footage. Final Cut Pro and Resolve get FCPXML; Premiere gets an XML with your full footage in a nested sequence and the edits on top.
Does it change or re-encode my media?
Never. Your files are referenced in place and untouched. Every automatic cut inside PowerCut is a restorable strike, not a deletion.
Which languages work?
English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese with the full pipeline, plus Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Cantonese, Hindi and more in beta. The User Guide lists all of them.
Every feature is in the User Guide.
Run your next shoot through it.
Free for 7 days.
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