TakeCutter
Cut long takes into song clips
Only for Mac
Free
Mac
Cut a two-hour recording into 30 named song clips in about ten minutes. Automatic song detection, frame-exact trimming, crop, colour and LUTs. Fully offline.
Recorded a whole rehearsal or concert in one long take? TakeCutter turns it into tidy, named song files. Fast.
Insert the camera's SD card and TakeCutter finds the takes, grouped by capture date. Scrub 4K footage instantly with a filmstrip and an audio waveform. Songs show up as loud blocks, so boundaries are easy to spot. Drag on the timeline to mark a clip, fine-tune in and out to the exact frame, give it the song's name, and keep going: as many clips per take as you need.
Or let TakeCutter find them for you. Press Detect songs and it listens through the take, proposing a clip for each one, with a name field and an audio preview on every row, so you accept the ones you want and ignore the rest. Nothing is created until you say so.
Reframe while you're there. Crop to the part of the frame that matters. Lock it to the original shape, or to 1:1, 4:5 or 9:16 for social. A 4K take has pixels to spare, so a cropped 1080p export is still a full-resolution 1080p file. Four colour adjustments (exposure, contrast, saturation, warmth) handle the "it's a bit dark in here" problem without leaving the app.
Exports run in the background while you keep reviewing. Each clip becomes its own MP4, original 4K or 1080p, encoded with hardware acceleration on Apple Silicon, several times faster than realtime.
Shooting in a log profile? Apply a colour LUT per take: nine camera log to Rec.709 conversions are built in (Sony S-Log3, Panasonic V-Log, DJI D-Log and more), and you can import any .cube file. The live preview and the export are graded identically, crop and colour included, so what you see is what you get.
TakeCutter is simple by design: no library, no project files, no import step. Point it at a card, cut, export, done.
Requires an Apple Silicon Mac (macOS 15 or later). Fully offline: no account, no tracking, nothing leaves your Mac.
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Information
- Seller
- YUNJIAN NI
- Size
- 5.4 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 yunjian ni