Director's cut:Fine Cut: A director'sThe fine cut is an ordinary edited versionthe phase after the assembly edit and the rough cut [rough organiztion of a film thatscenes] stage. In this stage the music is supposedfinalised and an EDL is created to representlog the director's own approved editscenes. Overall, you eliminate any extraneous scenes or lines of dialogue and fix anything else that isn't working.
Cut explicitly refers to the process of film editing: the director's cut is preceded by the rough editor's cut and followed by the final cut meant for the public film release.