Exporting projects: supported features

Catalyst Edit supports the following features when exporting projects.

Design your Catalyst Edit project with these features in mind to ensure a smooth interchange.

Media Composer 6 (.aaf)

  • Timeline (including frame rate)

    Catalyst Edit timelines are always exported as stereo.

  • Markers

  • Frame rate

  • Clips

    Clips from nested timelines are exported to the main Media Composer timeline.

    Crossfades between nested timelines and other events in the parent timeline are ignored.

    Track volume, nested timeline track volume, and clip gain are summed and applied as clip gain in Media Composer.

  • Audio channel routing (including timeline channel output and clip channel assignment)

  • Clip audio fades and gain

    Audio clip gain and audio track gain are exported as clip gain.

  • Overlapping clips

  • Track gain (converted to clip gain)

Premiere Pro CS6 (.prproj)

  • Timeline (including width, height, pixel aspect ratio, frame rate, and field order)

    Catalyst Edit timelines are always exported as stereo.

  • Markers

  • Clips (including nested timelines)

  • Clip fades and gain/opacity

  • Overlapping clips

  • Title clips (multiline text, text angle, text color, background color, and shadow color are supported)

  • Track gain, pan, mute, and solo

Final Cut Pro X (.fcpxml)

  • Timeline

    Catalyst Edit timelines are always exported as stereo.

    Projects with multichannel audio will play through the left channel only in Final Cut Pro.

  • Markers (timeline markers are exported as clip markers, and markers beyond the last clip are omitted)

  • Clips (including nested timelines)

  • Clip fades and gain/opacity

    Video clip gain is exported as clip opacity.

    Audio clip gain and audio track gain are exported as clip gain.

  • Audio channel routing (including timeline channel output and clip channel assignment)

  • Overlapping clips

  • Title clips (title text, font, font size, bold, italics, alignment, color, shadow, outline, and rotation are supported)

    Please confirm font sizes in Final Cut Pro X after exporting your project.

  • Track gain, pan, mute, and solo

Vegas EDL (.txt)

  • Timeline

    Catalyst Edit timelines are always exported as stereo.

  • Clips

    Clips from nested timelines are exported to the main Vegas timeline.

    Crossfades between nested timelines and other events in the parent timeline are ignored.

    Track volume, nested timeline track volume, and clip gain are summed and applied as clip gain in Vegas.

  • Clip fades and gain/opacity:

    Video clip gain is exported as clip opacity.

    Audio clip gain and audio track gain are exported as clip gain.

  • Audio channel routing

  • Overlapping clips