MalibuClipCopy it. Capture it.
Record it for Final Cut Pro.
MalibuClip lives in your menu bar. It keeps your clipboard history with Final Cut Pro formats intact, adds a Final Cut Pro pasteboard buffer with numbered slots, takes and marks up screenshots, and is a full screen recorder (beta) with zooms planned from your clicks, ready to export to Final Cut Pro.
Illustration of the workflow, not a screenshot.
Four steps
From copy and paste to a Final Cut Pro timeline.
Copy, then paste from history
Copy as usual. Press ⌘⇧V, search or filter, and click a clip to paste it into the app that was in front. Pasting into other apps needs the Accessibility permission.
Capture and mark up
Click the screenshot icon in the menu bar popover for an area capture; the other capture modes start with a shortcut you assign. Every screenshot goes to the clipboard and to the Screenshots list. Press Space to edit it at once, or open it later.
Record and refine
Choose Record Area, Record Window or Record Screen. The .mov is saved in ~/Movies/MalibuClip. Open it in the editor to adjust zooms and the Look.
Export
Quick Export writes an MP4, Export GIF a GIF, and Export to Final Cut Pro a folder with an FCPXML, the recording and the camera movie.
What's inside
What version 2.8.1 does. Recording, the exports and the FCP Buffer are new and have so far only been tested automatically.
History that respects Final Cut Pro
MalibuClip records what you copy and keeps Final Cut Pro clipboard content with its formats intact. Search by text or app name, filter by kind or app, pin clips, and paste with a click. The list shows the 500 most recent clips, and a single format larger than 50 MiB is not recorded.
Paste your way
Paste, Paste as Plain Text, or drag a row into another app; Space previews a clip. Text clips can be edited, and saving replaces all formats with plain text. Editing is new and so far only tested automatically.
Blocklist
Add apps by bundle identifier. 1Password, LastPass, the Bitwarden desktop app, Keychain Access and items marked concealed are always ignored. This is not a general password filter: other apps are recorded unless you block them.
Screenshots
Area, area with toolbar and a 3, 5 or 10 second timer, window, full screen, and the last area again. No capture shortcut is assigned until you assign it.
Mark up
Pen, Arrow, Text, Numbered Step, Blur, Mosaic, Blackout, Spotlight and more, plus Crop and Beautify. Save updates the Screenshots list, Copy puts the image on the clipboard.
Text and scrolling pages
Capture Text copies recognized text from an area as plain text. Capture Scrolling Page stitches up to 60 slices; you scroll, or MalibuClip scrolls for you with Accessibility access.
Screen recording (Beta)
Record an area, a window or a screen. System audio, microphone and camera are off by default, and the camera is saved as a separate movie. If a source is missing, the screen is still recorded and the panel shows a warning.
Auto-Zoom
Plans zooms from the clicks MalibuClip stores while it records. A click during or just after a zoom gets none. Move, trim, add or delete zooms on the editor timeline. Recordings from 1.x have no cursor data, so Auto-Zoom is disabled for them; you can still add zooms by hand.
Studio Mode
Records without the cursor in the picture. The editor draws it, smoothed, in the video and GIF export. Off by default; the Final Cut Pro export has no cursor for such a recording.
Look
A background (colour, gradient or image), padding, corner radius, shadow and a click highlight. It applies to video and GIF export only, and ⌘Z does not undo Look changes.
Video and GIF
Quick Export writes an MP4 next to the recording. Export GIF offers 8, 12 or 15 fps and 480, 720 or 960 px. A GIF has no audio and is limited to 72 seconds.
Final Cut Pro export
Writes a folder with an FCPXML timeline (29.97 fps, event MalibuClip), a copy of the recording and the camera as picture in picture, with the zooms as keyframes. Optional Captions need the Speech Recognition permission and cover seven languages.
FCP Buffer
1 to 20 numbered slots (10 by default) that keep text, images or Final Cut Pro clips for later pasting. Fill them from the history, from the clipboard, or from the selection in the frontmost app through a malibuclip://buffer/... URL. Each slot can have one paste shortcut; none is set by default.
Good to know
What you need, what to watch for, and what it does not do yet.
Requirements
- macOS 26.0 or later on a Mac with Apple Silicon
- Screen Recording permission for every screenshot and recording; Accessibility permission for pasting into other apps
- Microphone, Camera and Speech Recognition are requested only when you turn on the matching switch
- Free trial, started once you enter your email address on first launch; then a license
- Final Cut Pro to open the exported FCPXML
Not there yet
- The Recording tab is labelled Beta. Auto-Zoom, the editor, microphone and camera recording, Studio Mode, Look, GIF export, Captions and the Final Cut Pro export are new and have so far been tested automatically, not in daily use. The same goes for the FCP Buffer
- Auto-Zoom needs cursor data, which recordings made with 1.x do not have
- The Look is not applied in the Final Cut Pro export, and a Studio Mode recording has no cursor there
- A GIF has no audio, and recordings over 72 seconds are refused
- Captions are part of the Final Cut Pro export only, not of the video or GIF export
Worth knowing
- Only Show Clipboard has a default shortcut, ⌘⇧V. Capture, recording and FCP Buffer shortcuts stay empty until you assign them in Settings.
- Newly recorded clips are encrypted at rest with a key in the macOS Keychain; earlier entries are not converted. The Screenshots list, recordings and FCP Buffer slots are not encrypted.
- Clear Slot in the FCP Buffer empties a slot immediately, without asking.
- Done in the screenshot editor does not save. Click Save or Copy first.
- Auto-Delete After is Never by default, and it never deletes recordings or files saved to a folder.
- Exporting again replaces the earlier export next to the recording.
Download MalibuClip
Version 2.8.1 for macOS 26.0 or later on Apple Silicon.