Divecut shows your Log footage in the right color, lets you search it in plain words, and hands your selects to DaVinci Resolve — Log intact.
The problem
Finder, QuickTime, every asset browser — they all show S-Log3, Apple Log, V-Log and HLG as washed-out gray. So you end up opening Resolve and scrubbing a timeline just to answer “what did I actually shoot?”
What it does
Divecut reads camera metadata to detect S-Log3, Apple Log, HLG and more, and displays footage through the proper conversion. No proxies, no rendering — your originals are never touched.
“fire”, “person on a bridge”, “red car at night” — on-device AI finds the shot you remember, not the file you named. Fully offline; nothing ever leaves your Mac.
Rate, pick, reject, set in/out points — the entire review flow works from the keyboard, the way stills culling tools got right years ago.
Collect keepers into a tray as you go, then drag them all out at once — to Finder, to your NLE, anywhere that accepts files.
Send selects with in/out ranges straight to a DaVinci Resolve timeline. Clips arrive as Log with viewing LUTs applied as metadata — your grade starts from the real files, not baked-in copies.
No cloud, no uploads, no account. Divecut references your footage in place and stores only its own metadata.
Pricing
Every feature is included in the free version — the limit is library size, not capability.
Free
$0
forever
Pro
$6.99/mo
or $49.99/year · 7-day free trial
About
I run Motley Beaks Inc., a one-person company in Osaka, Japan.
For years I’ve built plugins and macros for DaVinci Resolve — Fusion tools, OpenFX plugins, LUTs. I also shoot and grade my own work, which is how I ran into this problem in the first place: I kept opening Resolve just to see what was on the card.
This app is what I wanted to exist. It’s my first Swift app, and I’m building it in the open.