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Convert Final Cut Pro to audio AAF

An audio handoff with timing, gain envelopes and markers. Media stays on your disk; review the conversion warnings before delivery.

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How to convert Final Cut to audio AAF

Convert a Final Cut Pro FCPXML export to an external-reference audio AAF. Clip placement, source offsets, linear gain envelopes, sequence markers and timecode are written into the file.

  1. Export XML from Final Cut

    Use File → Export XML with linked media available.

  2. Convert and review

    Drop the FCPXML and read the conversion warnings.

  3. Import and relink

    Extract the ZIP, import the AAF in the receiving application and relink original media. Verify the mix before delivery.

Final Cut project XML and Audio AAF, explained

This is a composition-only audio exchange, with no embedded or rendered audio. ImportDescriptor locators reference the original files. Check relinking and compatibility in the receiving application. Video effects, plug-ins, nests and retimed clips do not transfer; the standard report identifies losses.

An audio handoff with timing, gain envelopes and markers. Media stays on your disk; review the conversion warnings before delivery. 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.

Final Cut to audio AAF FAQ

Is media embedded?

No. The AAF references original media with locators; it does not render, trim or embed audio.

Does this replace a finished Pro Tools delivery?

The binary structure is verified with pyaaf2. Native application import and relinking still need checking with your media. This is not a guarantee of Pro Tools compatibility or a lossless mix.

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Free to start

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

Batch in, one ZIP out

Drop up to 10 files at once 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. Guests get five conversions a month, a free account has no monthly cap within those sizes, and a single bigger file is $3, ten are $7, or Pro is $9 a month or $39 a year.

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.