KutCutChangelog
Stay up to date with new features, performance milestones, and bug fixes for KutCut across Windows and macOS.
Gradual Rollout Notice: New versions are rolled out automatically through the in-app update center. Standalone full installers for Windows and macOS are also available for each release below.
Pixabay Stock Audio & Multi-Clip Timeline Editing
KutCut 2.4.4 introduces live online Pixabay stock audio search with infinite scroll pagination, cache-busting refresh, multi-clip timeline trimming, and refined clip fade handles.
- Pixabay Stock Audio Search: Live online search with infinite scroll pagination, cache-busting refresh, and accurate catalog count for royalty-free stock music and audio clips.
- Quick Stock Categories: Instant 1-click navigation between Explore, Videos, Photos, Art, and Audio with category badges.
- Multi-Clip Trimming: Extend or shorten multiple selected timeline clips simultaneously with proportional bounds checking.
- Fade Control Refinement: Layered fade handles above the expanded trim hit areas for frictionless interaction without accidental misclicks.
No specific items reported in this category.
Pixabay Infinite Search & Multi-Clip Timeline Editing
KutCut 2.4.3 introduces live infinite scroll searching in the Pixabay stock library, quick category navigation pills, and multi-clip timeline trimming to adjust multiple selected clips simultaneously.
- Pixabay Stock Media Library: Live online search with infinite scroll pagination, cache-busting refresh, and accurate catalog count for millions of royalty-free assets.
- Quick Stock Categories: Instant 1-click navigation between Explore, Videos, Photos, Art, and Audio with smart asset badges.
- Multi-Clip Trimming: Extend or shorten multiple selected timeline clips simultaneously with proportional boundary clamping.
- Fade Control Refinement: Layered fade-in and fade-out handles above the expanded trim hit areas for frictionless interaction without accidental misclicks.
No specific items reported in this category.
Privacy & Permissions Settings
Granular system permissions management for microphone and local files, alongside window control polish and modal close handling.
Added the new Icons
High-contrast Lucide icon refresh across media bin, timeline headers, clip inspectors, and dialog chrome.
Pixabay Stock Media, Trendy Captions Studio & Infinite Timeline Engine
A major creative milestone adding integrated Pixabay stock media import, viral animated caption presets with word-by-word karaoke highlighting, and the infinite forward runway timeline engine.
Windows Export Stability Engine & Cloudflare R2 Release Notes
Automated Windows Visual C++ Redistributable check, live in-app release notes direct from Cloudflare R2, and NTFS export filename sanitization.
Windows Export Reliability & Dynamic Release Notes Engine
Export pre-flight checks, headless shell stability patches, and NTFS path normalization.
Headless Shell Isolation & About Modal Polish
Eliminated conflict where generic system browsers could cause export exits, and polished About Modal with live hardware acceleration diagnostics.
Massive 1,100+ Filter Presets & Typography Overhaul
KutCut transformed into one of the most comprehensive styling suites with 1,176 handcrafted cinematic filters across 9 categories, alongside an overhaul of 84+ motion text templates.
Timeline Clipboard Engine & Inspector Undo/Redo
Multi-clip copy & paste across tracks, deep undo/redo integration in the Inspector panel, and smart word-boundary caption segmentation.
Interactive Keyboard Shortcuts & Clip Selection Suite
Visual keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet (Cmd/Ctrl + /), lasso marquee multi-selection, and clip context menu enhancements.
Precision RGBA Color Studio, Native Apple STT & Dynamic PiP
Studio-grade RGBA color picker with alpha transparency, native macOS on-device speech recognition with zero cloud latency, and canvas transform handles.
WebGL Ultra Chroma Key & Local Streaming Protocol
Real-time GPU green/blue screen background removal, zero-copy local streaming protocol for 4K video playback, and DaVinci-style Power Window masks.
The AI Captions, Multi-Track & Voiceover Studio Milestone
A monumental release introducing 1-click automatic AI captions, unlimited non-linear magnetic tracks, live microphone voiceover recording, and the native WebCodecs 4K hardware exporter.
Initial Official Launch
The initial release of KutCut: A privacy-first, desktop-native video editor built for creators, YouTubers, and video editors—100% local, zero subscriptions, and zero cloud bloat.