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Convert CapCut to Premiere Pro

CapCut has no way to export an edit for Premiere Pro. Your edit is in the project's draft_info.json (draft_content.json on Windows). Drop it here and Premiere Pro opens it with your clips, trims and speed changes in place.

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How to convert CapCut to Premiere Pro

Convert a CapCut desktop project to Premiere Pro. Upload the project's draft_info.json and download a file Premiere Pro opens with your cuts, speed changes, transforms, volume, fades, transitions and text.

  1. Find the project file

    On a Mac it's in ~/Movies/CapCut/User Data/Projects/com.lveditor.draft/, one folder per project; on Windows, %LOCALAPPDATA%\CapCut\User Data\Projects\com.lveditor.draft\. Open the folder with your project's name and take draft_info.json (draft_content.json on Windows).

  2. Drop it here and convert

    The converter reads the CapCut timeline: the main track and overlays as video tracks, each clip's own sound and your music on audio tracks, and text and captions as titles. Premiere imports the XML as a sequence at the CapCut project's frame rate and size, with the media linked where CapCut found it.

  3. Open it in Premiere Pro

    File > Import in Premiere Pro, and pick the .xml. Keep the media where CapCut had it, or relink it once in Premiere Pro.

CapCut project and Premiere Pro XML, explained

CapCut stores a project as JSON: every clip with its trim in microseconds, its speed, and its position and scale relative to the frame. CutConvert reads those values as CapCut 9.5 writes them and rebuilds them in Premiere Pro's own terms. A clip CapCut scaled to 120% of the frame lands at the same size, and a crop keeps the framing CapCut showed. CapCut's effects, filters, stickers and text animations have no counterpart in Premiere Pro. The conversion report lists each one by name so you can recreate what you need.

CapCut has no way to export an edit for Premiere Pro. Your edit is in the project's draft_info.json (draft_content.json on Windows). Drop it here and Premiere Pro opens it with your clips, trims and speed changes in place. It is free to start, encrypted in transit, and converts a whole batch into one ZIP — sign in when you need large, high-volume jobs.

CapCut to Premiere Pro FAQ

Can CapCut export XML for Premiere Pro?

No. CapCut exports video, audio and captions, and CapCut's help center says it can't move project files to other editors. The edit is still in the project's draft_info.json, and this page turns that file into the XML Premiere Pro imports.

Does CapCut have to be installed?

No. The project file has the whole edit. Premiere Pro needs the media files themselves. The conversion runs in your browser, so neither the project nor your media is uploaded.

What about CapCut effects and filters?

They're CapCut's own and don't exist in Premiere Pro. They're left out and listed by name in the conversion report. Cuts, speed, position, scale, rotation, opacity, crop, keyframes, volume, fades, dissolves and text all carry over.

My clips come in offline. Why?

The project points to your media where CapCut found it. Library clips from CapCut's own stock and music live in CapCut's cache folder; relink those in Premiere Pro or swap them for your own files.

Is it free?

Projects up to 500 KB convert free; that covers a short edit. A full-length project is a one-time project conversion or a Pro plan.

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Convert everyday batches for free. Create an account when you need large, high-volume jobs.

Batch in, one ZIP out

Convert a batch within your allowance and download a single ZIP, or one file if that is all you need.

Made for editors

Whole timelines from Premiere, Final Cut and Avid with transitions, markers, titles, keyframes, levels, nests and bins; captions that keep their italics, colour, placement and speakers across SRT, VTT, ASS, TTML, iTT, SCC and STL, any of them in, any of them out; transcripts into Premiere with the words the engine timed. Frame rates and timecode handled the way post expects.

Private by design

Files are converted in your browser. Queued files can be saved locally to restore your job after checkout. Conversion metadata helps us diagnose errors; file contents are not uploaded.

Questions, answered

Where are my files processed?

In your browser. The converter runs on your own machine and the file never leaves it; the site only records that a conversion happened. CutConvert never sees, stores, sells or shares your media.

Is it free? Do I need an account?

About an hour of footage per file is free, on every converter: 100 KB of subtitles or captions, 500 KB of Word transcript, 2 MB of transcript JSON, 1 MB of Resolve project, 5 MB of Final Cut XML, with Premiere projects and Avid AAF a little under the hour. CapCut projects are free up to 500 KB, a short edit, since their size follows how much is in the edit rather than its length. Guests get five conversions a month, a free account has no monthly cap within those sizes, and above that project-to-project transfers are $5 per file. Every other conversion is $3, including project files to captions, reports or cut lists, and captions or transcripts into an editor. Pro is $9 a month ($90 a year) for every file type up to 50 MB; Studio is $19 a month ($190 a year) for files up to 500 MB. Paid-file access lasts 24 hours.

What do I get when I convert multiple files?

Drop several files and you get back one ZIP archive containing every converted file. Convert a single file and you get that one file back, no ZIP. Tick extra formats under the output chips and the same ZIP carries every one of them, and a file counts as one conversion whatever it is written to.

Which formats are supported?

Timelines: Premiere .prproj, DaVinci Resolve .drp (as exported, or gzip- or Zstandard-wrapped), Avid AAF and Final Cut FCPXML in; FCP7 XML, FCPXML, Resolve .drp, CMX 3600 EDL and shot-list CSV out. A Premiere or Final Cut edit travels with its transitions, markers, titles, opacity and scale keyframes, clip volume, speed changes, nested sequences, bins, audio channel routing and each file's own frame rate, wherever the output has a place for them; an Avid AAF brings its transitions, markers, clip levels with their keyframes, muted tracks, nested stacks and each clip's own rate. Captions and transcripts, read and written: SRT, WebVTT, SBV, ASS, TTML, DFXP, iTT, SCC, MCC (a second 608 channel comes out as its own file), EBU-STL, Avid caption TXT, CapCut drafts of any size, timed CSV, Word, plain text, Whisper, WhisperX, AssemblyAI, Deepgram, Rev.ai and CapCut JSON, TwitchDownloader chat logs as a chat replay, Premiere transcript JSON and .prtranscript, Rev, Otter and Word-style transcripts, with italics, colour, placement and speakers kept where the output can hold them and measured word timing into Premiere. EDLs become event CSV reports. The capability table lists what every pair keeps.

Can I pick a frame rate?

Yes. For EDL and Avid caption output you can choose 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97, or 30 fps, or let CutConvert auto-detect it from your source.