Portable: Bandicut

He found it in the cluttered downloads folder — a compact filename, an unassuming promise: Bandicut_Portable.exe. No installer, no ribbons of permission requests, just a small utility that claimed it could cleave and stitch video like a surgeon with a scalpel. For someone whose hard drive had become a museum of half-finished projects and old footage of summers that smelled like grass and barbecue, that promise felt dangerously seductive.