The Free, Open-Source CapCut Alternative — Mastered in 10 Minutes

The complete companion to the OpenCut video. THE STORY: on June 12, 2025 CapCut shipped Terms of Service granting itself a perpetual, irrevocable license to your content — including biometric rights to your face and voice. Ten days later, OpenCut was born on GitHub: the open-source CapCut alternative. Free, MIT-licensed, and your footage never leaves your machine. Now at 67,000+ stars. INSIDE THE KIT: (1) The 10-minute first edit — the exact click-by-click walkthrough, verified on the real app: open, import, cut, title, export a real MP4 with no watermark, no account, no bill. (2) The honest CapCut vs OpenCut decision table — 10 rows covering price, content rights, biometrics, templates, self-hosting — plus who should switch today and who should wait. (3) The rewrite roadmap in plain English — Rust core, Editor API, plugin-first architecture, scripting tab, headless mode, and the built-in MCP server that will let AI agents edit video on your machine for $0 per render. (4) The self-host quickstart — run a private video editor on your own hardware with Bun + Docker that no terms-of-service update can ever touch. This is an independent guide, not an official OpenCut product.

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