Export Your Cut To Avid Media Composer

You can now export a ScriptCut selection as a Timeline (XML) and open it directly in Avid Media Composer.

What It Is

ScriptCut's Timeline (XML) export already worked with DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro. It now opens in Avid Media Composer too, along with Final Cut Pro. Pick your best lines in ScriptCut, then bring that exact selection into Avid without retyping in and out points.

The Problem It Removes

Editors who cut in Avid used to have to watch or skim a full recording again just to find the good parts, then rebuild the selects by hand. That's slow and easy to get wrong, especially on long interviews, panels, or raw documentary footage. The transcript-first pick happens in ScriptCut, and Avid gets a timeline that already reflects it.

How It Works

Say you're cutting a 90 minute panel discussion. In ScriptCut, you read the transcript, mark the strongest answers, clean up false starts, and arrange the story on Review. When it's ready, open Export and choose Timeline (XML). ScriptCut rebuilds your selection in order, trimmed to the frame, with your groups turned into markers. Import that XML into your Avid project and the sequence matches your ScriptCut cut exactly, ready to finish.

If the project started as a transcribed recording in ScriptCut, the timeline is built from that file's own timecode. If you're doing a roundtrip on footage that started in Avid, attach the timeline XML on import so the selection lines up frame-exact with your original media.

Getting Started In Avid

There's no dedicated guided workflow for Avid in the New Project picker yet, that's coming. For now, start your ScriptCut project from Blank if you're bringing in an existing transcript, or from Transcribe if you're starting from a recording. Do your selection and cleanup as usual, then export the Timeline (XML) into Avid.

Who This Helps

This is for editors and agencies who cut long, unscripted footage, podcasts, panels, documentaries, talking-head interviews, UGC, in Avid Media Composer. It also helps producers who want to hand off a clean, client-approved selection to an Avid editor without sending timecode notes back and forth.

Try it on your next project in ScriptCut.