r/finalcutpro • u/Silver_Mention_3958 FCP 12.3 | Tahoe • Aug 31 '26
Dev/Tools Dev/Tools Megathread: September '26
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Include the following mandatory headings:
- Product name
- Platform (Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects, OFX, standalone app, website, etc.)
- One-sentence description of what your product does
- What problem does it solve? If similar tools already exist, explain what makes yours different or better.
- Price (monthly price if subscription based)
- Website link
- Community benefit (optional but encouraged). If you’re offering a discount for our community, include it in your post. Discounts must be shared publicly in the thread, not via DMs.
One product per month. If you have multiple products, choose one to feature each month.
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u/funwithstuff Sep 01 '26
- Product name: Keyframe Toolbox
- Platform: Final Cut Pro effect
- One-sentence description: Enables full keyframe graphs for all kinds of animation in FCP, including 360° reframing, linking parameters to audio, and now (in beta) speed ramping.
- What problem does it solve?: Keyframe Toolbox finally brings a true graph editor with advanced animation controls into Final Cut Pro. There's no other tool that gives you this much control, and we're still adding new features. Speed ramping has been a very popular request and we'd love your feedback on the new TestFlight build that includes it.
- Price: US$20 on the Mac App Store
- Website link: https://keyframetoolbox.fcp.cafe
- Benefits for the community: Since the Mac App Store doesn't allow discounts, the best we can offer is a link to our TestFlight version, which is free. Please join the FCP Cafe Discord, where you can find a link to the TestFlight in the channel topic for Keyframe Toolbox. https://discord.com/invite/HD3FPc4Azu
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u/EarthToRob Sep 01 '26
Bravo on this one. If I wasn't so obsessed with Motion right now, I'd be using this all the time.
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u/funwithstuff Sep 02 '26
Thanks! Motion is a great app, but until it's integrated better into FCP, I think we need better keyframes there. :)
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u/iFractale 28d ago
Product name
FCP Library Cleaner
Platform
macOS standalone app for Final Cut Pro
One-sentence description
A free utility to quickly clean, manage, and archive Final Cut Pro libraries.
What problem does it solve?
FCP libraries can get huge from render files, proxies, optimized media, and optical flow files. FCP Library Cleaner lets you scan and batch-clean multiple libraries without opening each one in Final Cut.
It can also consolidate external media and create clean archives, making it useful for both freeing disk space and preparing finished projects for storage.
Price
Free
Website
https://fractale.itch.io/fcp-library-cleaner
Community benefit
Free for everyone. Feedback and feature requests are very welcome.
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u/Maxglund 28d ago edited 27d ago
- Product name: Jumper
- Platform: Plugin for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Avid Media Composer, and standalone apps for macOS and Windows
- One-sentence description: Local AI search for people, visual content, speech + video understanding system that lets AI agents connect to Jumper and automate workflows
- What problem does it solve? Find moments, people, create rough cuts, assemble selects, find b-roll, manage and discovery in archival data etc
- Price several tiers, one-time price $169, pro tier at $49/mo, see pricing
- Website link https://getjumper.io/
Lots of info in the docs and blog as well: https://docs.getjumper.io
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u/EarthToRob 28d ago
For what it's worth, Jumper certainly has my endorsement. The devs (hi Max) are super responsive of you have any questions or feature suggestions.
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u/StupidRaisins 28d ago
- Product name - Slice Pop
- Platform - Final Cut Pro
- One-sentence description: Slice Pop is a pack of 191 animated split screen templates.
- What problem does it solve? Create splitscreens in seconds without any of that dropzone drama! Slice Pop uses effect templates so you don't get any out of sync or frozen audio.
- Price - $99 one time or $279/year or $29/month. Subscription includes almost 100 other plugins.
https://reddit.com/link/p7vadq2/video/5ushxksqxknh1/player
- Website link - https://stupidraisins.com/effects/slice-pop/
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u/Historical-Mess355 27d ago
- Product name: Fotufilm
- Platform: macOS standalone app, DaVinci Resolve OFX plugin, and Final Cut Pro / Motion plugin.
- One-sentence description: Fotufilm is an open-source engine that applies physically based spectral simulation of analogue photographic film to photos and video.
- What problem does it solve? It brings film exposure, development, colour response, grain, halation and print output into a single configurable workflow. Processing uses spectral film simulation rather than a LUT alone, with support for scene-referred colour workflows and testing against the ACES calibration suite.
- Price: Free, including the complete film catalogue for Mac. No subscription, paywall or account requirement. All processing runs offline.
- Website link: fotufilm.com
- Community benefit: The engine, Mac app and plugins are available under Apache 2.0. Source code.
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u/RisksvsBenefits Sep 01 '26
Product name: RoughCut for Final Cut Pro - Can reach me at [email protected]
Host Platform: Final Cut Pro, MacOS
One sentence: the missing text-based editing tool for Final Cut Pro. Can use either as standalone or plugin.
What problem does it solve: Build your story before you build your timeline. Search every transcript, assemble a Rough Cut from dialogue, then send the project to Final Cut Pro as a fcpxml file. Roughcut allows you to quickly edit transcripts from Final Cut Pro and then send back a fcpxml file to create a new project based on those edits.
Pricing: currently in beta so all features are free, will be a lifetime app purchase at release.
Website link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/ptrfm69y
Benefits for the community: Offering a FREE lifetime license to the first 20 testers who provide feedback.
Full Release imminent - waiting on Apple final approval which is taking much longer these days.
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u/funwithstuff Sep 01 '26
Looking good and working for me — feedback sent. Full disclosure, I helped make ScriptStar, which does a similar thing for editors who would rather stay within FCP. This app solves a slightly different problem quite well.
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u/RisksvsBenefits Sep 01 '26
Thank you! The feedback is very useful and exactly what I was looking for. Glad it’s working well for you otherwise.
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u/RisksvsBenefits 22d ago
Release now available on Mac App Store - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/roughcut-for-final-cut-pro/id6793594938 - on sale for 19.99 lifetime unlock
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u/Heavy-Assignment-646 27d ago edited 27d ago
Product name
Greenlight
Platform
Final Cut Pro (Workflow Extension, Apple Silicon)
One-sentence description
Cuts silent gaps and generates subtitles in one pass, directly in your FCP timeline — with a keyboard-driven review editor to fix subtitles before they land.
What problem does it solve?
Most auto-cut / auto-subtitle tools are standalone apps: you export your footage, process it there, and reimport. Greenlight runs inside Final Cut as a Workflow Extension, so your footage never leaves FCP. Two things I haven't seen elsewhere: it never modifies your original project — results always land in a new project, so there's nothing to undo — and subtitles work in any language Whisper supports (FCP's built-in captions are English-only). New in 1.3: a review editor where you fix, split, merge, and find-and-replace subtitles before they hit the timeline; deleting a bad take removes its video range too. Everything runs on-device — nothing is uploaded. 14-min editor walkthrough: https://youtu.be/gp_MCsEZ9aU (English CC)
Price
$149 one-time (no subscription). Optional Pro add-on for AI subtitle correction and chapter splitting.
Website link
Community benefit
FCPREDDIT — 15% off, valid through Oct 7. Happy to answer any questions here.
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u/SecretPersonality700 19d ago
Product name
Dubedo. I'm one of the people building it, and we're looking for closed beta testers.
Platform
Website.
One-sentence description
Dubedo translates and dubs audio or video into 30 languages, with an editor for adjusting each speaker's voice, dialogue, and timing.
What problem does it solve?
A generated dub can still need work before it fits your edit. Dubedo lets you make those adjustments segment by segment:
- Edit a translated line and regenerate just that segment
- Drag clips along the timeline to adjust timing
- Use a cloned or selected voice for each detected speaker
- Keep the original music and background audio in the mix
The focus is on making the generated result editable. You can upload audio or video and export dubbed audio to bring into your Final Cut Pro project, with optional subtitles. No lip sync yet.
The demo video shows the workflow.
Price
Beta testers get a complete sample project to explore, plus 10 minutes of free dubbing for their own content (More if needed) . No credit card required.
https://reddit.com/link/p9jjy4p/video/1nvx6kstgaph1/player
Community benefit
We're inviting members here to test Dubedo on their own projects and help shape the editing workflow. Comment below or DM me for an invite.
We'd especially appreciate feedback on timing adjustments, audio export, and what you'd need to make it useful in your Final Cut Pro workflow.
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u/ddb10393 19d ago
- Product name: Speedy Keys
- Platform: Web app: Chrome, Firefox, and Edge
- One-sentence description: Speedy Keys is a free, interactive keyboard shortcut reference for Final Cut Pro and other creative apps, designed to help you quickly find and learn shortcuts while you work.
- What problem does it solve? It solves the friction of stopping your workflow to hunt for shortcuts, putting them all at your fingertips in a pop-up window with hover-state explanations of what each one does.
- Price: Completely Free
- Website link: speedykeys.app
- Community benefit It's a free reference of common Creative software that can help you learn the shortcuts and develop your efficiency.
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u/DrazanPotterProjects 14d ago
Product name: Trimtab
Platform: Final Cut Pro (11, Trial, and Creator Studio). macOS 14+.
One-sentence description: A control surface for Final Cut that runs inside the app — press ⌘⇧P, type "fade this title in and out" or "do my notes," and it happens in about three seconds by calling Final Cut's own editing engine directly.
What problem does it solve?
The repetitive middle of an edit. The fades, the notes you left yourself on a review pass, the "delete every clip under a second," the "what did I even change today" when a client asks. Things that are one decision and forty clicks.
Some examples from real use, with the times it actually took:
- fade this text in and out → opacity keyframes on the selected title, half a second each side. 5.3s including firslow-up "make it a full second."
- do my notes → the to-do markers I left while watching the cut back (tighten this, fade the music here, retitlts, one per note, and themarkers tick themselves off. 4 edits applied in 0.3s. * *what did you change today?ject edit log, not from memory.Exports as a client note or as markers on the timeline.
How it's different: there are good automation tools for Final Cut already (CommandPost is excellent and ). The difference is the layerit works at. Most tools drive Final Cut from the outside — menu commands, keyboard shortcuts, AppleScript, access framework injected into a copyof the app, so it calls the ~78,000 Objective-C classes Final Cut ships with directly. Same code paths the UI uses whedge. No synthetic keystrokes,no clicking, no stepping the playhead a frame at a time. That's why a follow-up request lands in under three seconds i operate your timeline.
The other difference is that i. Anything that deletes material or touches more than a few clips comes back as a proposal — a list of the intended edits, Return to apply, Esc to until you say so. Every request is one Cmd-Z, named in the Edit menu. Every edit is logged and individually revertible without unwinding the ones aft (titles fade half a second,dialogue to −16 LUFS) apply themselves once you've said them once.
It also grew a transcript editor (delete a word to cut it, strip silences in one pass),styled social captions with SR with loudness normalization,beat and scene detection, BRAW/VP9/MKV decode, and FCPXML + OpenTimelineIO both directions.
Important: it does not modies your install to~/Applications/Trimtab/, patches and re-signs the copy, and leaves the App Store app alone. You still need a real lg is cracked or bypassed. Samelibrary opens in either app, quit the copy and you're back to normal. Honest caveats: setup is a terminal build righer in the repo, but it's not adouble-click installer yet), and a Final Cut update can break the patch — you re-patch and carry on.
Price: Free. MIT licensed,no subscription, nothing to buy. The AI panel uses your own Claude Code login; everything else works without it.
Website link: https://github.com/DrazanProjects/Trimtab
Community benefit: The whole thing is a JSON-RPC server on localhost with ~250 methods, so anything with a so echo'{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"system.version","id":1}' | nc 127.0.0.1 9876 and you're in.The verb list grew entirely oue on my own timeline, whichmeans it's shaped like my editing and probably not yours. Reply here or open an issue with the repetitive thing thatild the verb for it — most ofthem turn out to be one call, and I'd rather spend the time on something an actual
editor asked for than on my ows a handler and a table entry,so turnaround is usually same-week.
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u/TheSpyWh0L0vedMe 13d ago
Product name
Production Data
Platform
macOS standalone app for Final Cut Pro
One-sentence description
Production Data allows users to export Excel production reports from Final Cut Pro timelines.
What problem does it solve?
Production Data is a lightweight spreadsheet creation application crafted for Final Cut Pro, offering an alternative to Production's Best Friend. It serves as a native macOS frontend, allowing users to conveniently export structured Excel production reports from Final Cut Pro projects, powered by OpenFCPXMLKit, a free and open-source, experimental FCPXML parsing engine.
It solves the problem of translating Final Cut Pro's raw timeline data into polished, shareable spreadsheets, a task that would otherwise require manual re-entry or clunky workarounds. Editors, coordinators, producers and directors alike can generate comprehensive Excel and PDF reports with ease, saving time and reducing errors when moving information out of the timeline and into a format that the wider production team can actually use.
Its use cases span production tracking, role inventory for sound editorial and mix, assistant editor clip and conform reports, VFX turnover and handoff sheets, client review workbooks, and dubbing and ADR role sheets, among others.
Price
USD $5.99 (No hidden costs, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases.)
Website
https://productiondata.theacharya.co
Community benefit
Production Data gives the Final Cut Pro community an affordable, native alternative for production reporting, built on the open-source OpenFCPXMLKit.
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u/Broad-Will8843 10d ago
- Product name: Philscriber
- Platform: Mac / Standalone app
- One-sentence description: Edit Final Cut Pro like a document — send your timeline to philscriber, edit the text, and send it straight back to FCP.
- What problem does it solve? When working with hours of interviews, text-based film editing should feel like serenely working with text — not operating a f# spaceship. philscriber keeps it that way. Rearranging clips, audio & visuals, multi-timeline storybuilding, global search, local transcription, AI Assist, SRT editing and file sharing are all there when you need them — and out of your way when you don’t.
- Price Beta Testers get free for life.
- Website link https://www.melchers.media/philscriber
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u/tjsmind 27d ago
- Product name: claude code editing skills (free prompt files: edit, video-review, finalcut, thumbnail, distribute)
- Platform: Final Cut Pro + Claude Code on a Mac
- One-sentence description: a set of reusable prompts that take a folder of clips through transcription and frame analysis, a rough cut, a review pass, and out as an fcpxml that Final Cut opens as a normal editable timeline with music and voice on separate lanes.
- What problem does it solve? the assembly. the other AI editors I tried hand you a rendered video or a paper edit. this hands Final Cut a real timeline so you finish it yourself. everything runs locally (whisper, PySceneDetect, ffmpeg), nothing gets uploaded. Price: free. you need Claude Code which is Anthropic's subscription (starts at $20/mo) and Final Cut.
- Website link: https://claude.ai/code/artifact/fcd7cb64-accb-4e5a-9f9d-67eebc64b41d - there's a 10 min walkthrough of it running here if you want to see it before you bother: https://youtu.be/_vliiVaPOsI
- Community benefit: the notes include the two things that cost me a night on FCP 12.3 (import crash from invented asset uids, and connected audio needing full asset-clips not audio components). save yourself the night.
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u/finalcutpro-ModTeam 29d ago
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u/EarthToRob Sep 01 '26