The editor

Not a lite version.
The whole thing.

A multi-track timeline with keyframed motion and speed curves, colour with tone curves, per-clip EQ, transitions, effects, captions in dozens of languages, recording, and export up to 4K. Every one of those is on the free plan. There is no tier where they unlock and no watermark to remove.

v2.9.0 · 124 MB · signed & notarised

Fifteen seconds, in your hands

Scroll it. That's the playhead.

A real project playing in the app: picture, narration, music, captions and dissolves, with the inspector counting a keyframed move as it happens. Nothing here is staged or sped up — it is fifteen seconds of the editor, and the transport is yours.

The CNEX Cut editor playing a fifteen-second project: the playhead travels the timeline while the preview cuts between four shots, captions appear in time with the narration, and the inspector's zoom value counts up
What happens in it
  1. Four shots, a narration track, and a music bed under both.
  2. The playhead runs. The preview cuts with it.
  3. A dissolve carries one shot into the next — drawn across the cut.
  4. Captions arrive in time with the words, on their own layer.
  5. Zoom 114% — the inspector counts a keyframed move as it happens.
  6. Picture, voice and music stay in sync, because it is one composition.
  7. Fifteen seconds. Nothing rendered, nothing waited for.
What you just watched

Every layer of that is a tool you have.

A timeline that behaves like one

Layers, magnetic snapping, ripple close, per-clip fades. Drag a clip to its neighbour and it snaps without being pushed onto a new layer.

Motion, keyframed

Push-ins, drift, handheld and Ken Burns as presets — or set a value at one moment and another later and it animates between them.

Colour that goes further than a filter

Exposure, contrast, temperature and tone curves per clip, with presets when you want the quick answer and curves when you do not.

Sound worth keeping

Per-clip EQ, fades, music beds that duck under narration, and voice clean-up that costs nothing because it runs here.

Captions in the language you need

Generated from the audio, styled, timed, translated, and exportable as a subtitle file for somebody else’s player.

Every shape from one edit

Build 16:9 and check 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5 against the same timeline, with guides showing what each crop would lose.

The panels

One window. No mode to switch into.

Colour, motion, sound and captions are all one click from the clip they belong to — not a separate page you learn before your first cut.

The timeline: a captions layer, four video clips with dissolve markers and keyframe diamonds, narration and music waveforms
Fig. 01TimelineLayers, snapping, transitions drawn across the cut, keyframes on the clip rather than hidden in a dialog.
The preview panel showing a graded coastal shot with a title across the lower third
Fig. 02PreviewTitles, grades, motion and effects composited live, with crop guides for the other deliverable shapes.
The clip inspector showing Edit, Color and Motion tabs, speed, zoom and still-duration controls
Fig. 03InspectorOne clip and all of its properties. Colour and Motion mark themselves once a clip has either.
The library panel with AI video, AI image and AI voiceover generators, add media, this device, and record
Fig. 04LibraryYour footage, the music library, generation and the recorder — all in the panel you already have open.
What it costs

All of it, on the free plan.

No watermark, no trial clock, no effect that turns out to be paid at export. The only operations that cost anything are the ones that spend somebody else's GPUs — generated clips and voices — and the app quotes those before it spends them.

Rendering on your own machine is unlimited and free. Cloud rendering on Free is 20 minutes a month at up to 1080p, which is written down rather than discovered.

The whole table, limits first →

A multi-track timeline: captions, video clips with dissolve markers and keyframe diamonds, narration and music waveforms

It's the whole editor.
It's free.

v2.9.0 · 124 MB · signed & notarised