ClipExporter

ClipExporter is a simple workflow and export tool for Final Cut Pro X.

ClipExporter opens exported Final Cut Pro X projects (fcpxml) and exports each clip as a Quicktime reference movie, Nuke file or Syntheyes importable file. If you use the export feature for After Effects the whole timeline will be reconstructed by translating your edits and many parameters. It creates shot based folders with custom subfolders and extends each clip with handle frames.

Features

• Exports Quicktime reference movies. These files can be opened in other applications like Mocha, Motion, PFTrack etc.
• Export for After Effects. Translates the complete project to a composition. See feature list here.
• Exports Nuke files. All in-/out-frames and timeline positions match your exported Final Cut Pro X project.
• Export for Syntheyes. A custom (.synInfo) file format is created for import in Syntheyes. Therefore an importer sizzle-script is required, which can be downloaded from our support website.
• Supports roles for selective export of a single clip or a group of clips.
• Adds handle frames (optionally). Extends each clip length by a given number of frames.
• Creates shot based folders with naming conventions.
• Creates subfolders (optionally).
• Saves disc space by refering to the original source media. No files are copied.

Known issues

• Retimed clips are not supported. Please "unretime" all clips before export. ClipExporter warns you, if retimed clips were found in your project.
• Multicam clips are not supported. Please "flatten" Multicam clips before export.
• Effects, translations, animations and every other Final Cut Pro X related modification on a clip will be discarded (Nuke & Quicktime only).
• Video-clips with unsupported or odd fps (frames per second) values could cause inaccurate timming results. We encountered such problems while using unconverted iPhone videos that were shot with the built-in camera app.
• Event-XMLs are not supported.

• ClipExporter has been rewritten from scratch.
• Lower memory consumption and speed increase when exporting big projects.
• Removed Roles on/ off switch. To export clips with roles assigned, simply click the checkbox for that role. Leaving all roles unchecked exports the complete timeline. Use alt+click to switch on all roles at once.
• Added an export log list panel with option to export as .csv file.
• Added a new naming panel which allows to customize file- / foldernames. Naming formats can be saved as presets for frequent usage.
• Added an auto counter. ClipExporter remembers the last counter number for each individual project and uses it on the next export session.
• Added option to export all video or nuke files to a single folder.
• AE: added "linked mode". In linked mode ClipExporter exports the clips as trimmed video files (optionally with handles) and uses these files to reconstruct the timeline in AE. It's similar to a "consolidate" functionality in other editing applications.
• AE: added multiple markers support. The previous version translated only the first marker on a clip.
• AE: added support for notes. Notes on clips appear as comments in AE.
• AE: added support for keyframes (see known issues below)
• AE: added placeholder creation if source files are missing during import. Replacing the placeholder with the correct file keeps all timing values intact.
• AE: (added) source files are imported only once. In the previous version, the source file is imported for each clip in the AE project. Having one source file cut into multiple clips in the FCP X timeline, produced a bulk of unnessesary files in the AE project.
• AE: (added) All multicam angles get translated. Only the layer(s) with the active angle are visible.
• AE: fixed a lot of compound clip and multicam related import issues.
• AE: added colorisation of multicam-, and compound clip layers to have a better visual separation.
• AE: Added an option to send the generated script directly to After Effects. This streamlines your workflow as you don't have to manually run the script any more.
• AE: Added an option to precomp all clips. Available in linked mode only.
• VIDEO: added support for export of retimed clips, retimed multicams and retimed compound clips.NOTES: Avoid reversed (retimed) clips. We found that time values for reversed clips (given by the exported fcpxml) are inaccurate.Retimed clips inside compound or multicam clips get unretimed. The unretimed clips might exceed internally the ranges of it's parent clips and get trimmed or truncated. Rather retime multicam or compound clips than it's nested video clips.
• NK: The Nuke exporter works in "linked mode" only. This means that along with the nuke file a trimmed video is exported, which is refered by the Read node. This way the nuke files do not refer to the same source video files as FCP X (as in previous versions of ClipExporter).
• NK: added a Backdrop Node displaying notes, keywords, file and clip metadata
• NK: added option to choose between absolute and relative file paths for Read nodes. The files are relative to the "project directory" which is determined by the users target folder.
• RED: added R3D file support.
• VIDEO: changed Quicktime export from old QTKit to AV Foundation
• VIDEO: removed (deprecated) Quicktime reference movie export due to switch to AV Foundation
• VIDEO: added FCP X metadata support. Keywords and notes are embedded as Quicktime Metadata. Spotlight searchable. To view them open the video file in Quicktime and open the Movie Inspector (see known issues)
• VIDEO: copies Quicktime file metadata from the source media file to exported video file