Built for sports videographers. Or anyone drowning in 200+ identical short clip thumbnails.
Every shoot ends the same way. 200+ clips dumped into a folder. Every thumbnail looks identical. You open each one in QuickTime, scrub to the middle, close it. Repeat. For hours. The edit hasn't even started and you're already exhausted.
Finder shows you the first frame. For every clip. They all look the same. Good luck finding that one perfect reaction shot.
Open, scrub, close. Open, scrub, close. You spend more time triaging footage than actually cutting the video together.
Bad takes. Shaky shots. Lens caps. But you don't know which ones until you've painfully watched every single clip.
Features
Move your mouse across any thumbnail to scrub through the entire clip. No clicking. No waiting. No QuickTime. Just pure, instant previews.
RushCut analyzes audio loudness to surface the moments that matter — dialogue, reactions, action — and auto-tags them.
Hit a number. Move on. Your hands never leave the keyboard.
Arrow keys to navigate. Numbers to rate.
Cover the lens for a beat right after a great moment. Back at your Mac, RushCut finds the marker and tags the clip before it a banger — stack them for bangerx2, bangerx3. Your best shots surface themselves.
Cover the lens → the clip before it becomes a banger
Create custom tags. Apply them in bulk with audio triage. Filter your grid down to exactly what you need. One toggle to hide every clip you haven't touched.
Hand markers
Nail a great moment? Roll a one-second clip with your hand over the lens and keep shooting. Back at your Mac, RushCut finds every marker and tags the clip before it as a banger. Stack markers back-to-back and the tier climbs: bangerx2, bangerx3. Your best shots surface themselves — before you've scrubbed a single clip.
One hand cover → the clip before it gets banger
Stacked hands raise the tier → bangerx2, bangerx3…
Nothing is auto-applied. Every candidate shows a confidence score — tick the ones you want, apply in one step, Cmd+Z undoes it all.
No machine learning, no video decoding. Pure pixel math on the thumbnails RushCut already generated — 1000-clip sessions scan in a blink.
"banger" is just the default. Set your own tag in Settings and get highlight, highlightx2, highlightx3…
Once they've done their job, remove every hand clip from the session in one click. Files stay on disk, and yes — it's undoable.
How it works
Point RushCut at your footage folder. It scans every video file and generates thumbnails instantly.
Hover to preview any clip. Hit 1-5 to rate. Arrow keys to navigate. Hundreds of clips in minutes.
Detect hand markers and run audio analysis to auto-tag clips. Add your own tags. Rename the keepers. Filter out the junk.
Export your organized clips into clean folders with a JSON metadata file — ready for your editor of choice.
SwiftUI from top to bottom. Fast, lightweight, uses zero background resources. No Electron. No web views. A real Mac app.
Thumbnails generate in seconds. Hover-scrub is realtime. No progress bars, no "processing". It just works.
Every single action — rate, tag, rename — is fully undoable. Cmd+Z like you'd expect from any native Mac app.
One-time purchase. No account. No telemetry. No cloud. Your footage stays on your machine. Period.
Pricing
Pay once. Own it forever. Like software used to work.
One-time purchase
macOS 14+ required. Instant download after purchase.
FAQ
A native macOS app for triaging raw video footage before you edit. Rate, tag, filter, and organize hundreds of clips without opening a single one in QuickTime.
Any format macOS can decode natively — MOV, MP4, M4V, and more. If QuickTime can play it, RushCut can preview it.
No. RushCut never modifies your original files. It only reads them to generate thumbnails and previews. Ratings, tags, and renames are fully non-destructive.
Use it before you edit. Triage your footage in RushCut, then export organized folders with a JSON metadata file — ready for whatever editor you use.
On the shoot, roll a short clip with your hand over the lens right after a good moment. RushCut scans each clip's first frame for that covered-lens signature — no machine learning, nothing leaves your machine — and tags the clip before each marker as a banger (stacked markers give bangerx2, bangerx3). You review every match with a confidence score before anything is applied, and it's all undoable.
Near-instant. RushCut uses native macOS APIs to generate thumbnails as fast as your SSD can read the files.
No, RushCut is purpose-built for video clips. It's designed around scrubbing, previewing, and triaging footage — things that don't apply to stills.
No. One-time purchase. The app is yours and works forever.
Yes. You get every future update at no extra cost. Pay once, get everything.
Not currently, but every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. If RushCut isn't for you, just email us for a full refund. No questions asked.
macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later.
No. 100% native SwiftUI. No web views, no background processes eating your CPU. A real Mac app.
Locally on your machine. No cloud, no account, no telemetry. Your footage stays yours. Period.
Stop wasting hours finding your best clips.
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