Source Cut

Every clip in your Final Cut Pro timeline, exported as its own file — still wearing its original camera filename. One click, no re-encoding, no renaming by hand, no cloud account.

If you've ever delivered selects to a client, sent a cut to a colourist, or archived the keepers from a shoot, you know the pain: batch exports from Final Cut Pro lose your camera filenames, so you end up exporting clips one at a time and renaming them by hand. Source Cut gives you back your afternoon.

New in this version: export a relink FCPXML and a CSV manifest alongside your clips — reconnect your whole project to the exported files in one import, and hand off a clean timecode report to the next room.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Click Share in Final Cut Pro and choose Source Cut.
2. Pick a folder — renaming, handles and timecode options are right there on the dialog.
3. Done. Every timeline clip lands as a separate movie named after its original source file. DJI_0042.MOV stays DJI_0042.MOV.

MADE FOR REAL WORKFLOWS
• Client selects that keep the filenames the client expects
• Dailies and stringouts that trace straight back to camera originals
• Handovers to colourists and VFX houses who need source names and timecode
• Boiling a mountain of footage down to the keepers — without exporting one clip at a time

FRAME-ACCURATE, NO RE-ENCODE
Clips are cut from your master export by passthrough — zero quality loss, no transcoding time. With a ProRes master, cuts are frame-exact.

RENAME ON EXPORT
Add a prefix or suffix, number clips in timeline order, or replace names entirely — with a live preview as you type. Build names from tokens like {source}, {seq}, {project} and {date}, and save your whole setup as a preset to recall per client or show in one click. Or leave it off and keep the original names untouched.

RELINK & CONFORM PACKAGE
Write a Final Cut Pro XML rebuilt against your exported clips — re-import it and your timeline reconnects to the cut files instantly, in Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Add a CSV manifest listing every clip with its timeline and source timecodes, ready for conform paperwork and handovers. Both write straight into the clips folder.

SOURCE TIMECODE
Every clip is stamped with its original camera timecode, so it relinks and conforms cleanly in DaVinci Resolve and other colour and finishing tools.

HANDLES
Keep extra frames on the head and tail of every clip — like Final Cut Pro 7's Media Manager — so there's room downstream to re-trim or add transitions.

NO TIMELINE SURPRISES
• Original camera filenames from the FCPXML — special characters included
• A clip used twice exports twice (_2 suffix)
• 1-hour start timecodes, gaps and transitions handled
• Multicam, synced and compound clips export under their clip names

WORKS STANDALONE TOO
Drop any master export plus its FCPXML onto the app window and cut clips without touching the share menu.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Everything happens on your Mac. No account, no upload, no analytics, nothing to subscribe to.

One purchase. Yours forever.

Requires Final Cut Pro 10.4.4 or later.