FCPXML explained: what it carries, what it does not, and the import gotchas

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.

Transcript-based editing means selecting interview clips by reading the words instead of scrubbing through audio. Here is why it dominates modern documentary post and how the workflow runs.

A timeline exported as FCP 7 XML can be traced clip by clip to the interviews it came from and read back as a paper cut. How the tracing works, what comes back, and what does not.