Premiere

Adobe Premiere opens StoryCut's FCP7 XML export (.xml). Premiere can't open FCPXML, the Final Cut Pro format. Choose Premiere as the editor in the export form; see Exporting to your editor for the rest of the form.

Import it

1. In Premiere, choose File › Import… and pick the .xml file you downloaded.
2. Premiere adds a bin named after the file, with the sequence and the clips it uses. Open the sequence.
3. Premiere may show an FCP Translation Results report of anything it couldn't bring across. Read it if something's missing.

If clips come in offline, select them and choose Link Media…, or export again with the right paths.

What comes across

• A recording: each camera angle on its own video and audio tracks, stacked in sync, cut into the clips you exported. Premiere has no multicam in XML, so to cut between angles, nest the tracks, open the nest in the Source Monitor and choose Multi-Camera › Enable.
• A timeline: the rough cut, one video track for each StoryCut track that carries picture and audio tracks for each that carries sound, each slot playing its take, with the top track's picture winning, as in StoryCut.
• Markers: story panels' labels and a recording's comment markers come across as sequence and clip markers.