This may be a 'everything looks like a nail when you have a hammer' moment since I have been immersed in penetration testing, but I have only known scalpel to drill into disks and analyze file systems for recovery/forensics. Is there a legitimate use for including scalpel in production code for a video app? Is the app store code review thorough enough that I am being overly paranoid?
I have started gathering Xcode debug output and proxying the traffic to learn more but figured I would see if there is an easy answer from people who are more familiar with app development. Thank you in advance for any input/advice.
PS: Why not just mention the video software's name? This is entirely too vague to give any sort of decent answer.
My best guess is that it is being used to carve out portions ("cuts") of a video file.