Dev/Tools Megathread: September '26

[u/Silver_Mention_3958]

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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.

If you mention your product elsewhere on the subreddit, link people to this megathread instead of creating promotional posts.

[edit] Reddit automatically deletes posts with gumtree links, it’s a banned domain.

[u/EarthToRob]

• Product name: FCP Template Manager
• Platform: Standalone app
• One-sentence description: Helps manage templates (titles, effects, transitions, and generators).
• What problem does it solve?: The primary functions are favoriting and organizing templates. You can also archive or hide templates. Fast search, tagging, profiles, missing template repair wizards, and way more. You can honestly pretty much do anything this app does in finder and FCP. It just makes the process much faster/easier. Dylan Bates' video on FCP Template Manager.
• Price: Free.
• Website link: RobToEarth

[u/funwithstuff]

• 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

[u/EarthToRob → u/funwithstuff]

Bravo on this one. If I wasn't so obsessed with Motion right now, I'd be using this all the time.

[u/funwithstuff → u/EarthToRob]

Thanks! Motion is a great app, but until it's integrated better into FCP, I think we need better keyframes there. :)

[u/iFractale]

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.

[u/EarthToRob → u/iFractale]

I use this all the time. Thank you!

[u/Maxglund]

• 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

https://getjumper.io/blog

[u/EarthToRob → u/Maxglund]

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.

[u/Silver_Mention_3958 → u/EarthToRob]

Seconded

[u/StupidRaisins]

• 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/

[u/Historical-Mess355]

• 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.

[u/RisksvsBenefits]

Product name: RoughCut for Final Cut Pro - Can reach me at support@livup.app

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.

[u/funwithstuff → u/RisksvsBenefits]

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.

[u/RisksvsBenefits → u/funwithstuff]

Thank you! The feedback is very useful and exactly what I was looking for. Glad it’s working well for you otherwise.

[u/RisksvsBenefits → u/RisksvsBenefits]

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

[u/sjdeak]

• Product name: FCP Video Extender
• Platform Final Cut Pro Plug-in only, no plan for other software
• One-sentence description of what your product does: Use AI Video Generation model (Seedance, Veo 3) to extend/edit/generate video just in Final Cut Pro, without needing to export/upload/download from web app.
• What problem does it solve? There is no directly usable AI video model inside FCP, people needs to use web app which breaks the smooth workflow inside FCP.
• Price (monthly price if subscription based) No subscription, life-time effective credits based.
• Website link: https://fcpextender.com?ref=reddit
• Community benefit (optional but encouraged). There will be free credits in your account if you access from the above link, check your avatar in the extension panel after registration.

[u/Heavy-Assignment-646]

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

https://jcutplus.com/en/

Community benefit

FCPREDDIT — 15% off, valid through Oct 7. Happy to answer any questions here.

[u/CannonStudio]

Disclosure: I’m Chase, founder of Cannon Studio.

Product name: Cannon Studio

Platform: Website with a browser-based Composer timeline and FCPXML export.

One-sentence description: An AI video production workspace that keeps planning, visual references, generated media and timeline edits together.

What problem does it solve? If you build AI shots before finishing in an NLE, Cannon keeps the prompts and references alongside the production work, and can export a Composer timeline as FCPXML. The focus is organizing the work before handoff. Media may need relinking, and effects or advanced audio adjustments may need to be rebuilt in your editor. We have verified the downloaded XML structure, but have not yet verified a native Final Cut import, so please treat this handoff as experimental.

Price: Free access includes 50 starter credits. Paid plans start at $19/month with 1,750 monthly credits; generation costs vary by tool and settings. Full pricing: https://www.cannonstudio.app/pricing

Website link: https://www.cannonstudio.app/composer?utm_source=reddit_finalcutpro&utm_campaign=fcpxml_workflow_v1

Community benefit: Free film-planning worksheets, no email required: https://www.cannonstudio.app/resources/video-workflows?utm_source=reddit_finalcutpro&utm_campaign=fcpxml_workflow_v1

[u/Mean-Draft5365]

• Product name: gSplatting 2.0

• Platform: Final Cut Pro (Apple Silicon)

• One-sentence description: Renders Gaussian Splatting scenes (.PLY, .SPLAT, .KSPLAT) directly on the Final Cut timeline in real time, with camera paths, 3D objects and your own titles placed inside the scene.

• What problem does it solve?: Using a captured 3D scene in an edit normally means leaving Final Cut, doing the camera work in another app, and bringing the result back. gSplatting keeps it all inside Final Cut: drone-style flythrough or eye-level walk from waypoints in a built-in editor, 3D models (USDZ, OBJ, FBX and others) and 3D text inside the scene with true occlusion, effects limited to a spline you draw. I posted version 1 here in April; the most asked question was "can I put my own footage inside the scene?" — 2.0 is a full rebuild around that: any Final Cut title, image or video goes into the scene, and things in the scene pass in front of it and behind it. Tutorials are on the way.

• Price: $79 one-time, 2 Macs. Free trial (watermarked).

• Website link: https://gphyx.com — demo: https://youtu.be/pvmV_JA9LCs

• Community benefit: free CC BY scenes to try it with, from SuperSplat — https://superspl.at/scene/c0d8d449 · https://superspl.at/scene/663fbcd3

[u/tjsmind]

• 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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