Send a Premiere Pro cut to your producer without the media

Your producer has opinions about the cut, and until now the only way to act on them was an email, a guess and another export. A review cut lets them show you. They rearrange, shorten and annotate a video of your cut, without Premiere and without your media, and you take the changes you agree with back into your own .prproj.

What your producer does

They open a link on a phone or a laptop, with no account. On it is your cut as a video and the shots in a row underneath. They can:

• drag a shot to a new place,
• drag a shot's ends to make it shorter,
• remove a shot,
• pause and leave a comment,
• drop in a title card such as "shot of dog" where footage doesn't exist yet.

Then they press Send. They never see your project, your bins or your media, and they can't make a shot longer than it is in the copy. If they need more footage, they add a card saying so.

What you do

Start inside Premiere with the panel

Install the CutConvert panel for Premiere Pro, then open Window → UXP Plugins → CutConvert. With your cut active, choose Send to producer. Check the sequence and saved project path, then choose Save project & continue. The panel saves your latest work and opens the review page. No panel key or paid plan is needed for this handoff.

In the browser, choose the saved .prproj shown in the panel and the same sequence, then follow the steps below. Opening the page does not upload your project or notify your producer. See the native panel and browser screenshots.

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

1. Save the project in Premiere. The panel supports Premiere Pro 25.6 or newer. Projects saved by Premiere Pro 26 support guarded write-back into the original .prproj; older projects return as a Premiere XML sequence to import.
2. Add the project. Drop the .prproj and choose the sequence. The free check says what your producer can change, what stays in your project untouched (effects, color, titles, markers, other sequences and bins), and anything to look at after export. There's a Premiere sample to try it on first.
3. Choose your media folder. The cut's files are found by name, folder and size and checked, on your computer. Nothing is uploaded.
4. Prepare the producer's copy while filling in who it is for. Your browser starts making a review copy (720p, or 1080p on Pro and Studio) as soon as the footage is linked. Sign in and confirm you may share the cut before it uploads with the cut's edit decisions; your project file is stored privately for updated downloads, and your source footage stays on your computer. Copies can be up to three hours. Over 30 minutes, or when the browser cannot make the copy, export an MP4 from Premiere using the exact settings on the page. Free accounts can have five cuts out for review at once; Pro and Studio have no cap.
5. Send the link. Copy it or email it. Your producer needs no account; you can set an expiry date or a passphrase.
6. Review and accept their changes. Their version arrives with their name on it, and the bell and an email tell you. Choose Your reviews in the panel to open the review room. Review what they moved, shortened, removed and added, and accept it.
7. Download your updated cut. The free check runs again, then the export. Open the updated .prproj in Premiere Pro when write-back is supported. Older Premiere projects, or changes that cannot be written into the original, offer a Premiere XML sequence to import and check against your media.

What comes back

The file you started with, with only the cuts you accepted changed. Clips still point at your original media. Comments and accepted proposals arrive as sequence markers at their frames. A title card becomes a Premiere text graphic of its length with the producer's words. A Premiere sequence ends at its last clip, so under a card after the last shot there's a Black Video clip of the card's length.

We checked this with Premiere Pro 26 itself. A producer's reordered, shortened and carded cut, with a comment, was exported, saved by Premiere and read back. All 13 clip ranges and every marker matched. That was a test project, not your project, so open the result and check it against your media before you deliver.

What it won't write back yet

Native write-back remains guarded: unsupported titles, speed changes through effects, nests or ramps may require the Premiere XML fallback. The free check explains what can return before you share the cut.

FAQ

Does my producer need Premiere or my footage? No. They see a video of your cut and the shots in a row. They never download your project or your media.

What happens to my effects and color? They stay in your project as they were. Only the cuts you accept change, and comments arrive as sequence markers.

What does it cost? Sending, reviewing and downloading the updated project are free on every plan. Free accounts can have five cuts out for review at once; Pro and Studio have no cap. Producers never pay.