AfterCut just got better. After receiving a lot of positive feedback, feature requests, and bug reports, a new release is ready for you.

Let’s deep dive into the changes.

Better motion blur

Now, when transitioning between zoom levels, you could see some slight motion blur, which should make the video feel more alive. That also applies to the transition of the camera when following the cursor, and the cursor itself.

Undo, redo

I know that was kind of dumb to not implement this since the first early version, but it is what it is, I guess. Good news is - it's finally there. Undo your crops, zooms, and pretty much any setting with Ctrl+Z or by hitting a button

Projects view

See all your projects with previews on a separate screen in AfterCut. Way better than a small, tiny list of projects in the action bar. You can also clean up your recordings and delete projects on that page

New UI for recording control

Smaller, more refined, and responsive recording control. Dismiss your recording if you need another shot, or jump straight to the editor and get it ready for export.

Oh, the cursor

At 2.3x, 3x zoom, the cursor could look just awful, pixelated, and not the way anyone would expect. Now it's looking crisp and shiny.

Speed control

You can now speed up or slow down parts of the video

Smaller filesize

Video recording of your screen now takes way less disk space, while still preserving the quality.

Camera shape

New, square shape for the camera

Cloud sharing via link

This is an experimental feature that will probably be changed in the future, or potentially will be fully removed.

As you know, AfterCut is meant to be a one-time purchase app, and it will remain like this. This link-sharing feature is aimed at testing the need for such functionality, and with potential migration to your own storage, like Google Drive or Dropbox.

Since this PoC was easier to implement than digging through Dropbox or Google Drive API, it currently relies on my servers and incurs some extra costs until it is replaced with users' own storage for such exports. Please, do not abuse it hard, lol.

Example link is here: https://with.aftercut.studio/s/e99e43268801

Unpleasant section. Bugs

I read every email, every message on Reddit, and fixed a bunch of things.

• Creepy quality for certain export configurations. A good quality recording looks worse after the export. This is now fixed. Let me know if you have any issues with that still.

• Laggy preview on the timeline. That was caused by a non-optimized preview setting. Currently, you can configure between the efficient mode of displaying and full retina resolution. It's honestly hard to notice with the naked eye, but your PC could definitely feel that.

• Extremely large files were sometimes produced by Studio-type export. It was replaced with a proper codec, and now files are much smaller.