Send a Final Cut Pro cut to your producer without the media

Sharing from Final Cut gives your producer a video to watch. A review cut lets them change it. Your producer rearranges and shortens the shots on a video of your cut, without Final Cut and without your media, and you import the version you accept back as FCPXML with their notes on the timeline.

What your producer does

They open a link on a phone or a laptop, with no account: your cut as a video and the shots in a row. They can move a shot, shorten it, remove it, comment at a moment, or add a title card such as "shot of dog" where footage is missing. They press Send when they're done. They can't reach footage that isn't in the copy; if they need more, they add a card.

What you do

Send a cut to your producer walks you through it on one page:

1. Export XML. In Final Cut Pro, select the project and choose File > Export XML.
2. Add the .fcpxml. The free check lists what your producer can change and what stays untouched.
3. Choose your media folder. The cut's files are found and checked on your computer. Nothing is uploaded.
4. Prepare the producer's copy. Your browser starts making a review copy (720p, or 1080p on Pro and Studio) after you link the footage. Sign in and confirm permission before upload. Copies can be up to three hours; over 30 minutes, or when the browser cannot make the copy, export an MP4 from Final Cut with the settings on the page. Your project file is stored privately for updated downloads; your source footage stays on your computer.
5. Send the link. Copy it or email it. Your producer needs no account.
6. Review and accept their changes. Their version arrives with their name on it; review what changed and accept it.
7. Import the result. Download the edited FCPXML and choose File > Import > XML. Final Cut adds it as a new project, so your original stays as it was.

What comes back

Your storyline with the accepted cuts, still pointing at your media, and the producer's comments as markers on the clips at their frames. Final Cut keeps one marker per frame on a clip, so two notes on the same frame arrive together in one marker ("2 review notes"). We checked that with Final Cut Pro 11.2: it imported and re-exported the combined marker with both notes intact. A title card becomes a Basic Title of its length with the producer's words; one after the last shot sits on a real gap at the end.

What it won't write back yet

Titles typed in the browser that are not centred (centred titles come back as Basic Titles), adaptive-layout audio inserted from the browser, speed changes through effects, ramps or nested connected clips. The free check explains what can return before you share the cut.

FAQ

Why are two notes combined into one marker? Final Cut keeps one marker per frame on a clip. When two notes land on the same frame, they arrive together in one marker so neither is lost.

What about a title card after the last shot? It becomes a real gap of the card's length at the end, with a Basic Title carrying the text.

Can I keep browser titles? Centred browser titles come back as Basic Titles with their words and duration. Other title layouts need manual finishing; the free check explains what can return.