Exporting
Download caption files or open a clip in Premiere, Final Cut or Resolve
Get a clip's captions as SRT, VTT or ASS, or a ready-cut timeline for Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve.
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Besides the MP4, you can take a clip out of Reeltopus in two other ways: as a caption file for another player or editor, or as a ready-cut timeline you open in Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Both are free, and neither needs you to export the MP4 first.
Download a caption file
- Open the clip and go to the Export & post tab.
- Next to Caption file, pick SRT, VTT or ASS.
The file is timed to the exported clip, not the full video: cuts you made (like removed silences) are taken out, and if your brand kit adds an intro card, every caption starts later by the card's length. Captions break into lines where the clip's caption style breaks them, so the file matches the captions burned into the MP4. Any fixes you made in the transcript are included.
| Format | Good for | What it carries |
|---|---|---|
| SRT | YouTube, most players and editors | Text and timing |
| VTT | Web players | Text and timing |
| ASS | Players and tools that read styled subtitles | Text and timing, plus the style's font, colors, outline, shadow, background box, position and uppercase setting |
Word-by-word animation (pops, karaoke boxes, typewriter effects) only exists in the MP4. No caption file can carry it.
For a dubbed clip, the caption file holds the translated captions.
Open the clip in your editor
On the Export & post tab, press Open in your editor (Final Cut, Resolve, Premiere). You get a .zip with:
- an FCPXML file for Final Cut Pro (10.5 or later) and DaVinci Resolve (17 or later)
- an XML file for Premiere Pro
- an SRT of the captions, timed to the sequence
- a README.txt with the steps below
The sequence is the size of your export. It holds the parts of your original video the clip keeps, back to back, with silences and filler words already cut. The reframing comes through as position and scale keyframes on each piece. A split-screen clip comes through as two cropped panels on two video tracks.
Import it
- Final Cut Pro: File, then Import, then XML.
- DaVinci Resolve: File, then Import, then Timeline.
- Premiere Pro: File, then Import, and pick the Premiere XML file.
Point the editor at your video
The timelines cut your original video, which is not in the download. When your editor says the media is missing, link it to your copy of the file (Final Cut Pro: Relink Files; Resolve: Relink Clips; Premiere: Link Media). If you renamed the file, rename it back to the name in the README, or pick it by hand.
Captions
Captions aren't burned into the timeline. Import the SRT as a caption track, or restyle them in your editor.
Limits
- Editor export isn't available for dubbed clips yet, because the timeline cuts your original video and its original sound. Download the dub's MP4 instead.
- Editor export needs the same processing that MP4 export uses. If MP4 export isn't switched on for your workspace, editor export isn't either.
Related
- Export clips for MP4s and resolutions
- Caption styles to change how captions look before you download
- Fix the transcript if a word is wrong in the captions