How to send a DaVinci Resolve timeline to Final Cut Pro
In DaVinci Resolve, choose File › Export › Timeline (Shift-Command-O), pick the Final Cut Pro X XML (FCPXML) format in the save dialog and save. In Final Cut Pro, choose File › Import › XML and select the file. If your Final Cut Pro refuses it, export FCP 7 XML from Resolve instead and convert it to FCPXML.
- Menus from official docs
- Checked 2026-11-12
Step by step
How to send a DaVinci Resolve timeline to Final Cut Pro
DaVinci Resolve 20 and Final Cut Pro 10.4 to 12.4. Menus as in the DaVinci Resolve 20 Reference Manual and Apple’s Final Cut Pro 12.4 User Guide.
Export from DaVinci Resolve
- 1Open the timeline you want to send. In the Edit page you can also right-click it in the media pool and choose Timelines › Export › AAF/XML/EDL.
- 2Choose File › Export › Timeline (Shift-Command-O).
- 3Type a name, choose the Final Cut Pro X XML format in the format menu of the dialog, and click Save.
Import it into Final Cut Pro
- 1In Final Cut Pro, choose File › Import › XML.
- 2Select the file and click Import. Final Cut Pro creates the event and project, and a library if needed.
When it goes wrong
Common problems and fixes
- Final Cut Pro refuses the file
- An older Final Cut Pro can’t read an FCPXML version newer than its own. Export FCP 7 XML from Resolve instead and convert it with Conform, which writes FCPXML 1.8 that Final Cut Pro 10.4 and later import.
- Clips from upper tracks look different
- Final Cut Pro has a primary storyline instead of video tracks: V1 becomes the storyline and clips on V2 and above become connected clips above it.
Convert Resolve XML to FCPXML
Drop the FCP 7 XML that Resolve exports and download FCPXML 1.8 for Final Cut Pro 10.4 and later, with a list of what did not carry over. Free up to 40 clips.
Sources
Menu names and behaviour checked against these pages on 2026-11-12. Software updates rename menus; if a step no longer matches, write to conform@niamori.ai.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Something else, or a file that will not convert? Write to conform@niamori.ai.
Does the grade come across?
Can Resolve convert other formats to FCPXML?
Guides
More guides
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