Divecut shows your Log footage in the right color, lets you search it in plain words, and sends your selects out with 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 your NLE 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.