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Third-party notices — Cutvey Offload

Cutvey Offload is proprietary software, © 2026 Cutvey LLC, and is licensed under the End User License Agreement distributed with it.

This page lists the third-party components distributed with the application, and the licenses and ownership that apply to them. Those terms govern those components, not Cutvey Offload itself.

A copy of these notices, and of every license text they reference, ships inside the application at Cutvey Offload.app/Contents/Resources/Licenses/ and in the Licenses folder on the disk image.

Questions about anything on this page: contact@cutvey.com

1. FFmpeg — ffmpeg and ffprobe

License: GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later. Full text: COPYING.LGPLv2.1, shipped beside these notices.

Copyright © 2000–2026 the FFmpeg developers. https://ffmpeg.org

What it is used for

Cutvey Offload bundles the ffmpeg and ffprobe command-line tools in Cutvey Offload.app/Contents/Resources/. They are used by the Camera Reports feature as a frame-grabber and metadata probe for video containers macOS cannot open natively, mainly MXF (Sony XAVC, Canon XF-AVC, Panasonic P2, Avid DNxHD and DNxHR, XDCAM) and AVCHD/MTS. They are run as separate programs; they are not linked into the application.

Version and exact source

  • Release: FFmpeg 8.1.2
  • Source archive: https://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-8.1.2.tar.xz
  • Source archive SHA-256: 464beb5e7bf0c311e68b45ae2f04e9cc2af88851abb4082231742a74d97b524c
  • The bundled binaries were compiled from that archive without modification, for arm64, configured without --enable-gpl and without --enable-nonfree.
  • The exact configuration is reported by the binaries themselves: "Cutvey Offload.app/Contents/Resources/ffmpeg" -version

Written offer for the source code

For at least three years from the date this build was distributed, Cutvey LLC will provide to any third party, on request, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code for the bundled FFmpeg — the FFmpeg 8.1.2 release identified above together with the script used to configure and compile it — on a medium customarily used for software interchange, for no more than the cost of physically performing the distribution.

Requests: contact@cutvey.com

The upstream archive above is the same source, byte for byte, and can be verified against the SHA-256 given.

Replacing the bundled FFmpeg

The LGPL gives you the right to use your own build of the FFmpeg libraries. Because ffmpeg and ffprobe are bundled as separate executables rather than linked in, you can exercise that right by replacing them:

  1. Build FFmpeg 8.1.2 (or your own modified version) for arm64.
  2. Replace Cutvey Offload.app/Contents/Resources/ffmpeg and …/ffprobe with yours.
  3. Re-sign the application afterwards, because replacing a file inside the bundle invalidates its existing signature and macOS may otherwise refuse to launch it:
codesign --force --deep --sign - "/Applications/Cutvey Offload.app"

Cutvey Offload does not check the version, origin, or signature of these two tools — a replacement is used as-is. If they are missing or unusable, the app still runs and simply falls back to placeholder thumbnails for the affected formats.

2. RED Digital Cinema — R3D runtime libraries

RED, R3D, REDCODE, and all associated names, logos, trademarks, and intellectual property are the property of their respective owner. They are referred to here solely to identify the file formats the application reads and the runtime components it loads. Cutvey Offload is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by that owner.

What is included

Builds of Cutvey Offload that include R3D decoding bundle RED's redistributable runtime library REDR3D.dylib at Cutvey Offload.app/Contents/Resources/r3d/. It is loaded at runtime to read .R3D metadata and decode frames for thumbnails and Camera Reports.

Only that one library is included. The SDK's GPU decompression libraries (REDMetal, REDOpenCL) and its async decoder (REDDecoder) are not distributed, because the application decodes on the CPU and never uses them.

These libraries are not covered by Cutvey Offload's license or by the LGPL. They remain subject to their owner's own license terms, and all rights in them are reserved to that owner. No source code for them is provided, and the rights granted in Section 1 above do not extend to them.

You can confirm whether a given build includes them by checking for the Contents/Resources/r3d folder inside the application bundle; builds without R3D support do not contain it, and fall back to metadata plus a placeholder for .R3D clips.

The RED R3D SDK itself — headers, static libraries, samples, and documentation — is not distributed with the application in any build.

3. Blackmagic Design — Blackmagic RAW

Blackmagic Design, Blackmagic RAW, BRAW, and all associated names, logos, trademarks, and intellectual property are the property of their respective owner. They are referred to here solely to identify the file formats the application reads and the runtime components it loads. Cutvey Offload is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by that owner.

What is included

Cutvey Offload bundles the Blackmagic RAW redistributable framework at Cutvey Offload.app/Contents/Frameworks/BlackmagicRawAPI.framework. It is loaded at runtime to read .braw metadata and decode frames for thumbnails and Camera Reports. You do not need to install anything for .braw support to work.

The framework is included without its optional accelerator libraries (DecoderMetal, DecoderOpenCL, and the x86-only InstructionSetServicesAVX and AVX2), which the application's decode path does not use.

This framework is not covered by Cutvey Offload's license or by the LGPL. It remains subject to its owner's own license terms, and all rights in it are reserved to that owner. No source code for it is provided, and the rights granted in Section 1 above do not extend to it.

The Blackmagic RAW SDK itself — headers, samples, and documentation — is not distributed with the application.

4. Apple system frameworks

Cutvey Offload is built against macOS system frameworks provided by Apple Inc. and links no other third-party libraries. The interface uses the system typefaces SF Pro and SF Mono. Apple, macOS, and Finder are trademarks of Apple Inc.

Reproduced from the THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md that ships with the application and on its disk image.