Export Your Cut to Final Cut Pro

You can now export your ScriptCut selection as a timeline that opens in Final Cut Pro, alongside DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, and Avid Media Composer.

What It Is

ScriptCut's Timeline (XML) export rebuilds your selected lines as a frame-accurate timeline, trimmed to the exact moments you chose, with your groups turned into markers. That export works with all four major editors: DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, and Avid Media Composer. If you cut on Final Cut, your pre-edit now lands there in the same shape you built it in ScriptCut.

The Problem It Removes

Picking the best lines from a long recording is only half the job. Getting that selection into your actual editing software, in the right order, at the right frames, is where a lot of time gets lost. Final Cut editors previously had no direct path from a ScriptCut project into their timeline. Now they do.

How It Works

Say you're cutting a documentary interview. You upload the recording, mark the moments you know you're keeping as Must have, arrange them into a rough story on the Review page, and get sign-off from your producer through a share link. When it's approved, you open Export, choose Timeline (XML), and that file rebuilds your story as a real timeline. Open it in Final Cut Pro and your selects are already in order, trimmed, with markers showing where each group starts.

For a project you started by uploading footage straight into ScriptCut, the exported timeline is built from that file's own timecode. For a roundtrip project, you attach the XML on import so it lines up frame-exact with your original media.

One thing worth knowing before you export: in Cleanup, the only safe edits are fixing spelling and splitting a line in two. Retyping or deleting words there pulls the text out of sync with the timecodes, and your export will drift. To drop a filler word, use Remove fillers. To leave a word or line out of the final cut, deselect it on the Select page instead.

Who This Helps

• Editors who cut in Final Cut Pro and want their client-approved selects to arrive ready to place, not as a pile of clips to re-sort
• Agencies and producers running approvals in ScriptCut while their editor works downstream in Final Cut
• Documentary and long-form editors moving hours of footage from transcript to timeline without retyping a script

A guided, start-here workflow for Final Cut Pro is on the way in the New Project picker, similar to the one DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro already have. For now, start a project from Blank or Transcribe, do your selection, and export the Timeline (XML) whenever you're ready to bring it into Final Cut.

Try it now in ScriptCut.