Convert FCPXML to SRT
Extract the titles and captions from a Final Cut Pro FCPXML timeline as clean, timed SRT subtitles.
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How to convert FCPXML to SRT
Convert FCPXML to SRT online. CutConvert walks the Final Cut Pro timeline in your .fcpxml, extracts every title and caption with its exact offset and duration, and writes clean, numbered SRT subtitles.
Export the FCPXML
In Final Cut Pro, select the project and choose File > Export XML (Resolve: File > Export > Timeline). Any recent FCPXML version works.
Convert FCPXML to SRT
Drop the .fcpxml on the converter. Titles and captions are read with FCPXML's offset semantics, including the sequence's start timecode.
Download your result
Download the converted file instantly, or a single ZIP archive when you convert a batch of files.
Send your producer the cut
After converting, you can share the same sequence as a review cut. Your producer rearranges it, shortens it and marks what is missing on the video you already rendered, without your media. Their changes come back into your original Premiere, Final Cut or Resolve project as changes you approve and notes on your timeline; everything else in the project stays as it was. The round-trip check is free and names anything it cannot write back before you pay. See the open-prproj guide for what carries over.
FCPXML timeline and SRT subtitles, explained
Subtitles built as titles in Final Cut Pro are trapped in the timeline; YouTube, players, and translation workflows all want SRT. This converter reads the FCPXML export, resolves each title's real position (offsets are relative to containers and the sequence start timecode, which is why naive extraction lands an hour off), and writes standards-compliant SRT.
Extract the titles and captions from a Final Cut Pro FCPXML timeline as clean, timed SRT subtitles. 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.
FCPXML to SRT FAQ
Does it read titles, captions, or both?
Both. Basic Titles (and other title effects with text) and caption elements are extracted with their timing; empty placeholders are skipped.
Why do other tools put my subtitles an hour late?
FCP timelines often start at 01:00:00:00, and title offsets in FCPXML are relative to containers rather than absolute. This converter resolves the offset chain and subtracts the sequence's start timecode, so the first cue lands where it should.
Which FCPXML versions are supported?
The structure this converter reads (resources, sequences, spines, titles, captions, rational times) is stable across FCPXML 1.6 through 1.11, so exports from any recent FCP or Resolve version work.
Will multi-line titles keep their line breaks?
Yes. The text is read exactly as stored in the title, line breaks included, and written into the SRT cue.
Can I convert several timelines at once?
Yes. Drop a batch of .fcpxml files and download one ZIP of SRTs. Free to start; guests convert up to 2 files per batch, and a free account raises the limits.
Guides for this workflow
- Export SRT from ResolveTwo clicks when your subtitles live on a subtitle track, and the honest workaround via FCPXML when they are Text+ titles Resolve won't export.Read guide
- Open a newer .prproj in older PremiereThe version-lock error, why there's no "Save As previous version," and the three ways out: side-by-side installs, FCP7 XML, and the direct converter.Read guide
- Open a .prproj without PremiereThere's no .prproj viewer, but the converter plus free DaVinci Resolve gets you the full timeline: tracks, cuts, clip names, and the media paths inside.Read guide
- Import SRT into Final Cut ProThe native caption import, the insertion-time setting that puts subtitles an hour off, and the FCPXML route when you want styleable titles instead.Read guide
- Export SRT from Final Cut ProThe native Export Captions route (and its two settings that matter), the hour-offset trap, and the FCPXML converter rescue when subtitles are titles.Read guide
- Add subtitles in Final Cut ProGenerate Captions, the SRT import, or converted titles: which of the three routes fits which job, and how to get the subtitles back out.Read guide
- What is FCPXML?The FCPXML vs FCP7 XML naming trap, rational timing, the version rules, and the subtitle workflows the format makes possible.Read guide
- What is a .fcpxmld?Final Cut's XML bundle is secretly a folder. The two-click way in, the flat-file export option, and the converter that accepts the bundle whole.Read guide
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Why editors trust it
Free to start
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. 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.