2026

April

5th April 2026

Happy Easter Sunday! Hope the bunny delivered you lots of yummy chocolate eggs! 🐣

For some lazy Sunday morning viewing, below are some fun videos.

First up we have a Steve Wozniak showcasing the "Revolutions" exhibit at the The Computer History Museum, in Mountain View California back in 2011.

You can watch it on YouTube:

Next up we have the handsome Iain Anderson talking about all things AI on Office Hours Global.

You can watch it on YouTube:

Finally, we have the unstoppable Richard Taylor talking about all things Final Cut Pro & NAB 2026.

You can watch it on YouTube:

In more nerdy news, here's some cool things:

If you want to go even more nerdy, here's some great reads from the FCPBridge project:

The amazing Brian Elliott Tate has also open-sourced Spectra - a high-performance FxPlug4 plugin for Final Cut Pro that applies .cube 3D LUTs (Look-Up Tables) for color grading. Runs out-of-process via XPC with Metal GPU rendering.

You can learn more an download on GitHub.

FCPBridge v2.8.4 is out now.

It contains the following changes:

Effect Browser Favorites:

Right-click any effect in the Effects Browser to Add to Favorites or Remove from Favorites
Uses FCP's built-in favorites API — favorites persist across sessions

FCP Internal Debug & Diagnostics:

Expose Final Cut Pro's built-in developer tools via MCP:
Timeline visual overlays: lane indices, misaligned edges, hidden gaps, render bars
Performance monitoring: framerate monitor, video decoder logging, frame drop tracking
Logging system: ProAppSupport structured logging with configurable levels and categories
Presets for quick enable/disable: timeline_visual, performance, verbose_logging, all_off

Patcher Signing Fix:

Use ad-hoc signing only — preserves Apple framework signatures
Fixes crash in ProAppSupport when Developer ID certificate was present

Crash Prevention:

Block known unsafe trim selectors with nil error pointers that caused segfaults

Bug Fixes:

Fix retimeHold action mapping (was using non-existent retimeHoldFromSelection:, now correctly uses retimeHold:)
Updated patcher shell script with same signing fix

You can download and learn more on GitHub.

PaperCut Pro v1.0 is now live.

This is created by Chenxing Liu, the same developer behind Workspace Remapper and Subtitle Wrangler.

PaperCut Pro is a browser-based, text-driven rough cut editor for language-heavy content such as interviews, monologues, and dialogue.

Import transcribed footage (media + SRT/VTT/ITT, or FCPXML with captions). Edit directly on the text — copy, cut, paste, and rearrange like a document, with media staying in sync for preview. Export timelines as FCPXML for finishing in Final Cut Pro.

Projects can be shared for collaboration — structure can be shaped in text and returned as a timeline foundation, without rebuilding from scratch.

Built as a side project to address a long-standing pain point in FCP documentary workflows.

Free and fully local (runs in the browser, no uploads). Google Chrome recommended.

You can learn more on the PaperCut Pro website.

FCP Backup Manager v0.8.0 is out now.

It includes the following changes:

Added:

Preferred Time: optional time-of-day picker for daily and weekly schedules (e.g., run at 6:00 PM every day instead of on a rolling interval)
Quiet Hours: optional time window during which scheduled backups are suppressed (e.g., skip 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM to avoid running during editing sessions)
Quiet hours supports overnight windows (e.g., 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM)
Setup JSON support for preferredTimeEnabled, preferredTime, quietHoursEnabled, quietHoursStart, quietHoursEnd (all times in HH:mm format)
MDM profile support for PreferredTimeEnabled, PreferredTime, QuietHoursEnabled, QuietHoursStart, QuietHoursEnd
Config export now includes preferred time and quiet hours when enabled
Wake-from-sleep detection resets the schedule timer to avoid drift after the Mac wakes

Fixed:

MDM profile support for preferred time and quiet hours keys was missing — PreferredTimeEnabled, PreferredTime, QuietHoursEnabled, QuietHoursStart, QuietHoursEnd are now read from managed preferences, applied at highest priority, and locked in the Settings UI
Schedule timer now starts at app launch instead of waiting for the user to open the menu bar dropdown — previously, if the app launched via Login Items and the user never clicked the menu icon, scheduled backups would never fire
Overdue backup catch-up: if a scheduled backup was missed while the app was quit or the Mac was asleep, the app now fires the backup shortly after launch instead of waiting the full interval
Menu bar "Next:" display now accounts for preferred time and quiet hours when calculating the next run

Changed:

Schedule settings moved to their own Schedule tab in the Settings sidebar under Utilities, giving more room for the new preferred time and quiet hours controls

You can download and learn more on GitHub.

2026

April

5th April 2026

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