RideCutA folder of ride footage in. One highlight movie out.
RideCut reads a day of GoPro, phone and drone files, finds the moments worth keeping and renders one short movie. A desktop app for Windows and Mac, free to use.
The ride strip
What a day of footage looks like once it is readEach lane is one camera. The bars are the files it recorded over the day. The amber marks are the moments Analyze chose for the cut, from whichever camera was pointing the right way at the time.
How it works
Three steps, start to finish- 01
Open the folder
Point RideCut at the folder a ride left behind: any mix of GoPro, phone, camera and drone files. Subfolders are scanned. Nothing in the folder is changed.
- 02
Analyze
Every file is read for motion, GPS and the GoPro's sensors to find the moments worth keeping. It runs on your computer and works offline.
- 03
Review and render
Check the cut on a timeline with one lane per camera. Swap or trim clips, set a target length, then render one movie in landscape or portrait, up to 4K.
On the video
Speed, altitude, climb angle and a mini-map can be drawn on the movie. They come from the GoPro's GPS, or from a GPX track recorded on a phone or watch if the camera did not keep one.
Rating with Claude
Optionally, Claude looks at a contact sheet of each moment, four frames on one image, and rates it. The cut gets better for it.
Free and Pro
Two plans, one appFree
$0- Everything above, with no account.
- Rating with Claude works with your own Anthropic key.
Pro
$8 a month- Rating with Claude through the RideCut sign-in. No API key needed.
- 3,000 contact sheets a month, about ten full analyses of a long ride. Re-analyzes reuse cached ratings.
- Upgrade from inside the app. Payment by Stripe. Cancel any time.
The full detail is on the RideCut pricing page.
Requirements
Windows 10 or 11, or macOS 12 or later. The download page picks the right installer for your computer. Every version is listed on the releases page.
Why it exists
A day on the forest and mountain tracks of northern Thailand leaves hours of footage across several cameras, and most of it never gets watched. RideCut is my answer to that.
Windows 10 and 11, macOS 12 or later. No account needed.
More about the app at ridecut-cloud.vercel.app. Hero photo by Václav Pechar on Unsplash.
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