The licence, and what we each answer for.

// Who you are dealing with.

The Drop Cut Assistant is made and sold by The Drop Cut, operated from Romania. Questions, notices and complaints go to hello@thedropcut.com — that address is read by the people who built the tool.

// What the software is, and is not.

The Drop Cut Assistant analyses multi-camera nightlife footage, proposes a synchronisation, proposes drop moments, and assembles vertical reels in DaVinci Resolve Studio. It is called an assistant on purpose. Every one of those results is a proposal for a professional to review — the application itself tells you what to check at each step, and the guide is organised around those checks.

You are the editor of record. You review the sync, the drops and the reels before anything is delivered to anyone. The software does not remove your judgement and these terms do not shift it: a reel delivered unchecked is delivered on your responsibility, exactly as an unchecked edit made by hand would be.

// Your licence.

While your trial or subscription is active, you have a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the application on up to two Macs that you control. The software is licensed, not sold; we keep all rights in it.

You may not:

• share, sell or publish your licence key, or use someone else's;
• circumvent or attempt to circumvent the licensing, the device limit or the trial;
• reverse engineer, decompile or modify the software, except where the law expressly permits it despite this clause;
• resell, rent out or provide the software as a service to third parties.

Your licence key is a credential. Keep it private, the way you would a password — whoever holds it can occupy your device slots and clear your machines. If it leaks, write to us and we will issue a new one.

// Trial, payment, cancelling, refunds.

The free trial runs three days, once per Mac, no card required. After it, access is by subscription — monthly, quarterly or yearly — paid through Stripe. Card details go to Stripe directly and never pass through us or through the application.

Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Cancel any time from the application's licence panel — it opens Stripe's own page — and the subscription runs to the end of the period already paid, then stops. There is no partial-period refund for a cancellation.

If you are a consumer in the EU, you have a statutory 14-day right of withdrawal from a distance purchase. By starting the subscription you ask for the service to begin immediately; where you have used the service in those 14 days, the law lets us deduct the value of what was used. The three-day trial exists precisely so you can find out whether the tool suits you before paying. Nothing in these terms limits rights that consumer law does not allow to be limited.

A chargeback on a payment we consider honest may lead to the licence being withdrawn (see revocation, below). If a payment goes wrong, writing to us first is faster for everyone.

// Devices, offline use, revocation.

• A licence runs on up to two Macs. You can clear the registered machines yourself once every 30 days; we can clear them for you at any time on request.
• The application checks in over the internet and then works offline for up to seven days at a stretch — long enough for an event weekend with no signal. After that it needs to reach the internet once. This is how the licence works, not a fault.
• We may withdraw a licence for breach of these terms, for a chargeback, or for abuse of the licensing system. Where the reason is ours rather than yours, we refund the unused part of the period.

// What you bring, and what you answer for.

• Your footage and audio. You confirm you have the rights needed to process the material you feed the tool, and to publish what you make from it — including music rights for anything posted publicly. The application processes your footage locally on your Mac and does not upload it anywhere.
• DaVinci Resolve Studio is Blackmagic Design's product, licensed separately by you. We are not affiliated with Blackmagic Design, and a change in Resolve is outside our control.
• Backups. The tool writes into your Resolve project and renders files onto your disks. Keeping copies of irreplaceable footage is your job before it is anyone else's — that is true of every tool that touches an edit.
• Delivery. What you send to your own clients is your deliverable. Check it the way the guide describes before it goes out.

// No warranty.

The software is provided as is. We do not promise that every drop will be found, that every clip will land on the frame, that the tool fits a particular event, or that it is free of faults — on a hard event it will need your hand, and the product page says the same. Where the law implies warranties that cannot be excluded, they apply; to the extent the law allows, everything else is excluded.

// Limits of liability.

To the extent the law allows: we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss — lost bookings, lost profits, lost audience, a deadline missed, footage you had no copy of — and our total liability arising from the software or these terms is capped at the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law — including liability for intent or gross negligence, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence — and nothing here limits a consumer's statutory rights.

// Privacy.

The application is built to know as little as possible. What exists, where it lives, and why:

• Your email address and licence record — who the licence belongs to, whether it is active, which plan. Stored with our database provider (Supabase, EU region). Kept while the licence exists and for as long afterwards as tax and accounting law requires.
• A machine identifier — the two-Mac limit needs to recognise a Mac. What is stored is a one-way hash computed on your machine; the real hardware identifier never leaves it, and the hash is useful for nothing except comparing to itself.
• Payment data — held by Stripe, who are the ones processing your card. We see subscription status and never card numbers.
• Two emails — your licence key when an account is created, and a notice if the devices on your licence are cleared. Sent through Resend. We do not send marketing email.
• Your footage — never collected, never uploaded, never seen by us. All analysis runs on your Mac.
• A problem report, only when you send one. The application can attach a summary of the project you are working on — how each clip was placed, what you changed afterwards, how long each step took. It is off unless you tick it, the full text is shown on screen before it goes, and it travels through your own mail app, so nothing leaves without you pressing Send. It contains no file names, no folder names, no project path and no footage: cameras appear by their role, and clip lengths as ranges. Your clients' events stay theirs.
• The update check — at launch the application asks our site which version is current. It sends the version you are running and nothing that identifies you.

Under the GDPR you can ask for access to your data, correction, deletion, or a copy to take elsewhere — write to hello@thedropcut.com. Deleting the licence record ends the licence. You can also complain to your data protection authority; in Romania that is ANSPDCP.

// Third parties.

The application ships with FFmpeg, which it runs as a separate program rather than linking into itself. The build included is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3. Its full licence text travels inside the application — About › Third-party licences — together with the configuration it was built with and where to obtain its source. You are entitled to that source: it is at ffmpeg.org, and we will also send you the exact sources these binaries were built from, free, if you write to hello@thedropcut.com within three years of receiving the software.

Nothing in that licence extends to The Drop Cut Assistant itself, which is a separate work and is licensed to you under the terms on this page.

FFmpeg is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard. DaVinci Resolve is a trademark of Blackmagic Design. Stripe, Supabase, Resend and Cloudflare provide payment, database, email and hosting infrastructure under their own terms.

// Changes, endings, the law.

• Changes to the software. Builds improve and we will tell you a newer one exists, but we do not promise any particular future feature. The changelog is the record of what actually changed.
• Changes to these terms. If they change in a way that matters, the date at the top changes and the new terms apply from your next renewal — not retroactively to a period you already paid for.
• Ending. You end this agreement by cancelling and ceasing to use the software. We may end it as described under revocation. Sections that by their nature survive — liability, privacy, your responsibility for what you delivered — survive.
• Law. These terms are governed by Romanian law. If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory law of the country you live in, and EU consumers may use the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform. Disagreements we would rather resolve by email first.