Medrak Cut started as a tool I needed for myself. Cutting together a product demo meant either paying a monthly fee for an editor whose first screen is a wall of panels, or reaching for something free and finding a logo burned into the corner of the export. Neither of those is a real option when the job is: trim four clips, lay them on a timeline, get an MP4 out.
So it got built. And once it worked, charging for it did not make sense, so it is free. You can download it here.
What it does
The full editing loop, and only the full editing loop. Import video and audio, arrange them across multiple tracks, drag and trim and split and ripple delete, scrub with a proper transport, then export.
- A multi-track timeline with snapping, markers and a hundred steps of undo.
- Real transport: play and pause on Space, J-K-L shuttle, frame stepping, in and out points.
- Per-clip scale, position, rotation, opacity, speed and volume.
- Detach a clip's audio onto its own track, with picture and sound kept linked so they can never drift apart by accident.
- Export H.264, H.265 or ProRes at a size, frame rate and quality you pick, over the whole timeline or just the in-to-out range. Or export the audio mix alone as AAC, MP3 or WAV.
- Projects save as plain readable JSON you can diff and keep in version control.
ffmpeg is bundled, so nothing needs installing first. That is most of the 155 MB download, and it was worth it: an installer that only works on machines which already have ffmpeg is not an installer.
What it does not do
Worth knowing before you spend the download. There are no transitions, no titles, no effects and no colour correction. Stacked video tracks decide which clip is on top, they do not blend. It is Windows x64 only. And the installer is unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen will warn you once.
None of those are on a roadmap I can promise. If your edit needs a cross-dissolve, use something else for that part and do not feel bad about it.
Why free, specifically
There is a version of this where Medrak Cut becomes a funnel: free tier with a watermark, paid tier without. That model works. It is also the exact thing that made the tool necessary, and building the annoyance I was trying to escape would be a strange way to spend a month.
The honest reason is narrower than a philosophy. Medrak's business is Medrak Recorder, the teleprompter recorder for narrators and voice actors. That is where the subscription lives and that is what pays for the work. Medrak Cut is a separate tool that came out of the same codebase habits, and it does not need to earn its keep. Left free, it costs me hosting and helps people; put behind a paywall, it would earn a little and compete for attention with the thing that actually funds the studio.
There is a donate button on its page, set to whatever amount you think is fair. It unlocks nothing, because there is nothing locked. It pays for the next bug fix and, if enough people press it, the macOS build.
If you record as well as edit
The two tools meet in an obvious place. Medrak Recorder records scripted voice over line by line, keeps every spoken line bound to its own take, and exports editor-ready WAV files or one continuous WAV with an SRT. Those files drop straight onto a Medrak Cut timeline. If you narrate over footage, that is the whole chain: read the script in the recorder, cut the picture in the editor, export once.
The recorder is the paid one, with a free tier and a 7-day Narrator trial. The editor costs nothing and always will.
Get it
The download, the full feature list, the keyboard map and the honest limitations all live on the Medrak Cut page. Every release is also published on GitHub with a SHA-512 for each file, if you would rather verify the bytes yourself.