There has been a lot going on over recent weeks. And today, I’m happy to share that a new release of AfterCut is ready and can be downloaded.

This was so far the biggest pack of improvements, bug fixes, and other smaller things delivered. Some of those were already in the app for a while now, but they will still be mentioned in the changelog, as I didn’t create a public announcement of those.

Highlights of This Update

Custom camera layouts

One of the most upvoted features on the public roadmap is finally here.

• Front lets you enlarge your camera and put it in front, taking around 90% of the visible screen area.

• Full, as you might have guessed, takes the entire screen, fully covering the video.

• Side by Side, for wide videos (16:9), splits your screen in half and puts the camera side by side with your recording

• Stacked, basically the same as Side by Side, but works better for vertical 9:16 videos. Good for exporting reels, TikToks, etc

Better-looking timeline

The editor timeline is more compact now. I got rid of that messy “add track button“ and replaced it with a nice popover where you can choose what you want to add to your video

Keystrokes display

Custom audio tracks

Now you can drop a custom audio to play on the backgroun. You can adjust volume levels and cut it just the way you want to.

Display selection when recording

Allows you to select a display you want to record, instead of just automatically record the active one.

Uneed.best Cloud Export

Recent collaboration with https://uneed.best resulted in one more export type which is available for free. You can record your video and export it for Uneed to make your product launch better. There is more to come; I’ll announce it later.

A few new backgrounds

Just a small thing, a couple of high-quality backgrounds created by https://unsplash.com/@codioful

Other things

• Retina display recordings are now crisp and full-resolution

• The window corner radius is auto-detected and matched in the composition

• Smooth, continuous (macOS-style) corners for window recordings

• Smarter auto-zoom: detects cursor dwell zones, not just clicks

• Zoom pan following adapts to smaller panels in split-view layouts

• Screen and camera recordings now start at the exact same instant

• Scrubbing is faster with direction-aware seek tolerance

• Seeking through the timeline is snappier (6x more keyframes in exports)

• Fixed memory pressure crashes during long recordings (Hopefully)

• GIF export no longer freezes the UI during rendering

• Segment splitting no longer breaks camera pan paths

• Undo/redo properly restores all timeline selection states

• Timeline selection is now mutually exclusive — no more ghost highlights

• Multi-display support: pick which screen to record from a dropdown

• Cut at the playhead and delete the segment before the playhead shortcuts

• Auto-updater window now appears in front of other apps

• Removed unused FXAA and sharpening filters for a cleaner render pipeline