Export for an editing app

Slicer builds the reel by itself, but sometimes you want to finish it in a professional editing app: advanced color, layered graphics, changes requested by a client. Export for an editing app gives you not the finished video but the edit itself — the timeline: clip order, source in and out points, speed, transitions, music and markers. The app opens it on top of your source files, and you pick up right where you left off in Slicer.

It's free.

Where to find it#

The project's “⋯” menu in the header → Export for an editing app. The item is there for a finished project and for a draft of a manual project, as long as the sources haven't been deleted after the storage period. The timeline is built from the latest saved edit in the editor — you don't need to export the reel first.

How to download it#

1. Pick a format

   In the Export for an editing app sheet, pick a Format — a hint below it says which apps open it.

   Format	For which apps	What to know
   Final Cut Pro (FCPXML)	Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve	titles are transferred as text
   OpenTimelineIO (OTIO)	DaVinci Resolve, Premiere and Avid via OTIO	titles are not transferred
   EDL (CMX 3600)	any app	one video track, no music or titles

   If you're not sure, start with FCPXML: it carries the most. EDL is an old, simple format every app understands, but it holds only the clip order and transitions.

2. Download the archive

   Web

   iPhone and iPad

   Press Download archive — the zip archive is saved to the browser's downloads folder.

   The archive holds the timeline file, captions as an SRT file (if the reel has speech) and a README: what was transferred, what wasn't, and where to put the source files.

3. Download the sources

   Further down the sheet is Sources: the files used in the reel — videos, photos and music, one by one, in their original quality.

   Web

   iPhone and iPad

   Click a file to download it. Put them into a "media" folder next to the timeline file — the app will find them.

   If the sources have already been deleted after the storage period, instead of the list you see The sources were deleted after the storage period — the timeline will open without files.

4. Open it in the app

   Unpack the archive next to the media folder and import the timeline file into the app. If the app doesn't find the sources by itself, point it to the media folder. The timeline has your reel's frame size (for example, 1080×1920 for 9:16) and 30 frames per second.

What is transferred#

• clip order, source in and out points;
• clip speed and freeze frames;
• transitions that overlap frames — as cross dissolves;
• music — on its own track (except EDL), fitted to length if you turned that on;
• markers;
• titles — as text (FCPXML only).

What isn't transferred#

You do this in the editing app itself, with its own tools:

• color: filters, adjustments, LUTs;
• clip effects and animations;
• masks and chroma key;
• background removal;
• transitions without overlapping frames (dip, flash and others) — they become cuts;
• 9:16 reframing, camera motion and zooms — the sources keep their own size;
• the reel's graphics: hook, plaques, emoji, media cards, captions — the captions come in the archive as a separate SRT file;
• microphone voice-over and sound effects;
• music fade-ins, fade-outs and ducking under the voice.

The full list for your reel is in the archive's README: it mentions only what this edit actually has.

What's next#

• Export: presets and file settings — the finished video with the settings you need.
• Download and share
• Data storage — how long the sources are kept.