Built for sports videographers. Or anyone drowning in 200+ identical short clip thumbnails.
Native Mac app. Apple silicon and Intel.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 goal celebration.
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.
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. You can even stack back-to-back hand markers for those ELITE clips, and RushCut will know what to do.
Your best shots surfaced, before you've scrubbed a single clip.
One hand cover → the clip before it gets banger
Stacked markers → banger x 2
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.
Features
Move your mouse across any thumbnail to scrub through the entire clip. No clicking. No waiting. No QuickTime. Instant previews.
RushCut measures loudness across every clip and tags the peaks: goals, whistles, crowd reactions.
Hit a number. Move on. Your hands never leave the keyboard.
Arrow keys to navigate. Numbers to rate.
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.
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.
Move your keepers into folders sorted by rating or tag, ready for your editor. Add a JSON manifest if you need one.
SwiftUI from top to bottom, native on Apple silicon and Intel. Fast, lightweight, uses zero background resources. No Electron. No web views. A real Mac app.
Thumbnails generate in seconds. Hover-scrub is realtime. No proxies, no render queue.
Every rating, tag and rename is 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
Save one hour on one shoot and it's paid for itself.
macOS 14+. Apple silicon and Intel. Instant download after purchase.
Download free to try first. The free version opens up to 50 clips at a time.
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 re-encodes or alters your footage. When you export, it moves your keepers into folders, with any new names you gave them.
Use it before you edit. Triage your footage in RushCut, then move the keepers into organized folders, ready for whatever editor you use.
They scrub. RushCut finds your best shots for you with hand markers and audio peaks, rates each clip with one key, and clears out the junk before you import a single file into your editor.
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 banger x 2). It uses your camera's file numbering to find the clip before each marker, so keep the original filenames from the card. 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. Pay once and it's yours. No monthly fees, no renewals.
Yes. Updates are free and install from inside RushCut.
2 Macs per license.
Yes. Download RushCut free and try every feature on your own footage, including hand markers and audio triage. The free version opens up to 50 clips at a time. A license opens your whole shoot. If you buy it and it's not for you, email support@rushcut.app within 30 days for a full refund.
macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, on Apple silicon or Intel.
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.
Free to try · 30-day money-back guarantee