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A working sandbox. No sign-up, no project. Sample data only.
- Word and PDF scripts with the timecode above each bite, speaker chips, highlights and a legend.
- Excel with speaker colours, struck-through cut rows and a filter on every column. CSV for anything else.
- A Google Doc or a Google Sheet created in your Drive.
- A Miro board: paper cuts and beat sheets paste as sticky notes, one column per act.
- Print, from the same page you see on screen, with a preview beside the options.
- A transcript as Word, PDF or Excel, or as SRT and VTT subtitles.
- Source only, translation only, or both side by side.
- The column order you set, saved per project and per person.
- For editors, an XML package: the sequence, EDL, locators and a conform guide. See the XML page.
A script page: the timecode above each bite, speaker chips, highlights and a legend. Landscape or portrait, with the column order you set.
How it works
Three steps from raw material to result.
Transcripts export at the file or session level as documents or subtitles. A paper cut exports from its Export menu. Both carry the speaker labels you assigned.
Pick the columns and their order, orientation, font size and what the header says. The finished page is drawn beside the options while you decide.
Send the file, or create it straight in Google Docs or Miro. For the edit bay, the XML package carries the timeline and a conform guide.
For the edit bay
A paper cut also leaves as a package: the sequence, an EDL, subtitles, markers, the spreadsheet, the assembly as one audio file, and a conform guide. Turn off what your room will not open.
Everything ships by default, because which file an editor reaches for is a property of their room and not of the cut. Switch off what your room will not open, so a shared folder does not invite the wrong import.
Frequently asked questions
Which formats can a paper cut go to?
Word (.docx), Print / PDF, Excel (.xlsx), CSV, a Google Doc, Google Sheets, a Miro board of sticky notes, and an XML package for the edit bay. The archival log has its own export.
Can I see the result before I export?
Yes. Word, PDF and Excel each have a dialog with the options on one side and the finished page on the other: orientation, font size, speaker chips, highlights, a breadcrumb header and a stats header. The three share one house style.
Can I choose the column order?
Yes. The export dialog lists the columns with a handle on each, and the Word or Excel file follows the order you set. It is saved per project, per person.
How is a transcript exported?
As Word, PDF or Excel, with the same house style as a paper cut export, or as SRT and VTT subtitles. The Excel file has a filter on every column.
Can I export translation only?
Yes. The export menu lets you pick source only, translation only, or both in a parallel layout. SRT and VTT support a translation-only export for foreign-language subtitle workflows.
Does the export preserve speaker labels?
Yes. Whatever name you have assigned in the project travels with the export, so a reader opening the file sees "Elena M." rather than "Speaker 3."
Can I send the paper cut to Google Docs or Miro?
Yes. The export menu creates a Google Doc or a Google Sheet in your Drive, and the Miro export copies the cut as a grid that Miro pastes as cards, one column per act. Beat sheets go to Miro the same way.
What does an editor get?
An XML package: the sequence, a CMX3600 EDL, subtitles, an Avid text locator list, the paper cut as a spreadsheet, the assembly as a single audio file, and a conform guide. It opens in Avid Media Composer, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve. The XML page covers it in full, including how a finished edit comes back.
What does the SRT export include?
Numbered cues with start and end timecodes and the line text. You can have one file timed to the sequence, one file per source timed to that file, or both. There are settings for line-length wrapping and for whether speaker labels are used as a prefix.
Can I get an archival clearance log?
Yes. Export for Archival Log, from a paper cut, lists every archival clip with its program and source timecode as a spreadsheet. Converting an editor's XML gives a more reliable log, because it knows which tracks carry picture and which carry sound.
Related capabilities
How-to guides
Step by step, in the support centre.
The export formats available, what is inside the XML package, and how to export the translation instead of the source.
Word, PDF and Excel exports of a transcript, with a live preview and the options that change the page.
Copying a beat sheet or paper cut onto a Miro board, either through the clipboard or by having the board built for you.
What the .docx export includes, how it looks in Word, and how to regenerate a section before exporting.
What is inside the export package, which file your room needs, and the conform steps for Premiere, Avid, and Resolve.
Further reading
Background guides and comparisons.
SRT is more widely supported. VTT has styling hooks. Here is what each format contains, which downstream tools expect which, and where mismatches cause dropped cues.
FCPXML carries edit decisions, clip references, timecodes, roles, and markers. It does not carry media. Here is how Premiere, Resolve, and Avid handle it differently, and where timecode offsets and missing audio come from.