What changed in RoughCut

Version 1.0

The first public release, on the Mac App Store.

Added

• Silence and pause removal running entirely on your Mac, with Quiet room, Standard, Noisy, and Custom dB recording environments.
• On-device transcription with a locally cached Whisper model, using Metal acceleration.
• An optional AI editing pass, on Gemini or OpenAI under your own key, proposing removals for retakes, false starts, tangents, filler, and noise.
• A full review list with per-cut transcript, category, confidence, and range playback, plus Recompute Cuts to apply your changes without re-transcribing or calling the AI again.
• Frame-accurate FCPXML export that references your original media in place, plus an XML pack and a debug bundle.
• Transcribe Only, free and unlimited, exporting SRT and plain text.
• A Final Cut Pro share destination path, including an audio-only route for transcribing finished edits.
• English and Arabic interfaces, with Arabic as an explicit opt-in rather than a system-locale default.
• Five included rough cuts, a one-time core unlock, and an optional RoughCut Pro subscription.

Privacy

• On-device transcription is the default and uploads nothing.
• The AI editing pass sends transcript text only, under your own key.
• Pro Cloud transcription is opt-in per job and is the only feature that sends audio.
• Langfuse tracing ships off and is inert without your own keys.

Compatibility

• Apple Silicon Macs only.
• Video: mp4, mov, mkv, avi, m4v. Audio: wav, mp3, m4a.
• FCPXML 1.8, designed for Final Cut Pro and importable by DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere Pro.

Later releases

RoughCut continues to ship updates through the Mac App Store. The App Store listing is authoritative for the version available to you — check it there rather than inferring a version from this page, and use RoughCut → About to see what you have installed.

When a release changes behaviour that this documentation describes, the affected articles are updated and re-verified before the change is published here. Notable user-facing changes since 1.0 are added to this page as they are confirmed as publicly released.

This page deliberately never lists unreleased work, internal build numbers, or development milestones. Only changes that have actually reached users belong here.

How this documentation stays accurate

Documentation drifting away from the app it describes is the failure mode that matters most for a reference like this, so it is treated as a build problem rather than a good intention.

• Every article records the app version it was verified against. The date appears in the metadata row at the top of each page.
• Sources are mapped to articles. Each article records which parts of the app it depends on, so a change in one is traceable to the pages it affects.
• An automated check compares the two. It looks for changes to user-visible workflow, supported files, system requirements, models, languages, data transfer, consent, provider handling, key handling, trial and purchase presentation, settings and defaults, errors and recovery paths, export artifacts, evaluation formats, and localisation. A change in any of those raises a documentation task rather than being applied silently.
• Verification runs before publication. It checks that every English article has an Arabic counterpart, that generated pages still match their sources, that structured data parses, that no page contains a hard-coded price or an absolute privacy claim, and that no internal path or repository reference leaked into a public page.

Nothing on this site is auto-published from an AI-written draft: a drift check raises the task, a person reviews the change, and the corrected article is published only after verification passes.

Reporting something out of date

If a page here does not match what the app does, that is a bug in the documentation and worth reporting. Include the page, what it says, and what you actually see. See Contact support.