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Final Cut Pro Project to Premiere Pro on Windows (Beta)

Got a Final Cut Pro project but edit in Premiere Pro on a PC? Convert the XML export and import it, with the media relinked to your drive.

Opens: FCPXML 1.0 to 1.14, FCPXMLD
Saves: XML (Premiere Pro, FCP7), EDL, OTIO, SRT, CSV, PNG

Convert

Final Cut Pro XML
Choose files… or drop them here
.fcpxml, .fcpxmld, .xml, .zip · up to 200 MB each, 50 files max
    Add more files

    The .fcpxml file from File > Export XML in Final Cut Pro, or a .fcpxmld bundle in a .zip (newer Final Cut Pro versions save a folder). Several XML files or a .zip of them are fine. The media files themselves are not needed.

    Options

    Nested sequences keep each compound clip as one clip you can open, as in Final Cut Pro. Laid out flat puts their contents straight onto the timeline tracks, which the EDLs always do.

    Leave empty to keep the paths from Final Cut Pro. If the media was copied to another drive or a Windows PC, enter the folder it is in now (for example D:\Footage or /Volumes/Media/Project) and Premiere finds the files straight away.

    Clips in the exported events become clips in Premiere Pro bins, with a bin for every keyword and for favorites. Compound, synchronized and multicam clips become sequences.

    More options

    Keep subfolders when the folder holds the same subfolders as on the Mac; all in one folder when every media file was copied into the folder itself.

    Your files are deleted after processing.

    A Final Cut Pro project, opened on a Windows PC

    Final Cut Pro only runs on a Mac, and the XML it exports is not something Premiere Pro can import, on Windows or on a Mac. So when a colleague, a client or a former editor hands over a Final Cut Pro project and you edit in Premiere Pro on Windows, there is no direct way in. Rebuilding the edit by hand from a screen recording or a reference video takes days and is never frame accurate.

    How to get the edit across

    1. On the Mac with Final Cut Pro, select the project in the browser and choose File > Export XML. Newer versions save a .fcpxmld folder: compress it (right-click, Compress) so it travels as one .zip. If you only have the library, ask whoever has Final Cut Pro to do this step; it takes a minute and needs no media.
    2. Copy the media to your PC as well, the same folders as on the Mac if possible.
    3. Upload the .fcpxml or the .zip above. Under Media folder, type the folder on your PC that holds the media, for example D:\Footage\Wedding. Every clip in the converted XML then points at that folder, with the subfolders it had on the Mac (or all in that one folder, if you pick that under More options).
    4. In Premiere Pro choose File > Import and pick the converted XML. The sequences open with the clips online.

    What arrives

    Every project as a sequence with its tracks, cuts, transitions, speed changes, transforms, opacity, volume and markers; compound clips as nested sequences; event clips in bins. The media list tells you which files the edit needs, with their original Mac paths, so you know what to ask for if something is missing. Mac paths such as /Volumes/Media/... mean nothing on Windows, which is why entering the media folder saves you the relinking step.

    If clips still show offline

    Premiere Pro looks for each file at the path in the XML. If a clip is offline, select it, choose Link Media, and point at the file: Premiere Pro finds the other clips in the same folders.

    More about what this tool reads and writes: Final Cut Pro to Premiere Pro Converter (FCPXML to XML).

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