You've finished your edit in Adobe Premiere Pro. The captions are perfect. Now you need to deliver to a client who uses Final Cut Pro โ but FCPX doesn't read Premiere's caption format. You need FCPXML.
Premiere Pro can export captions in two useful formats:
Both can be imported into Final Cut Pro using our free converter.
Window โ Text โ Captions
Export Captions. Choose either:
SubRip (.srt) โ Standard, widely supportedText (.txt) โ Plain text format.srt or .txt file onto the dropzone.
File โ Import โ XML, select your .fcpxml file. Your captions appear on the timeline.
AAF (Advanced Authoring Format) is a project interchange format. While Premiere can export AAF, AAF files do not contain subtitle text โ they store timeline structure, markers, and metadata only.
To get subtitles from Premiere, always use the Export Captions menu (which produces .srt or .txt), not the AAF export.
If your Premiere timeline starts at 1:00:00:00 (common for broadcast), the exported SRT will have cues starting at 01:00:00,000. After conversion to FCPXML, this is preserved. If you need to start at 0, use the DaVinci โ 0 button in the converter to subtract 86400 frames.
Premiere's CSV uses "HH:MM:SS:FF" (frame numbers, not milliseconds). Our converter handles this automatically when you select CSV as input format.