Final Cut Pro turnover workflows, available two ways: a standalone macOS app and a native Final Cut Pro Workflow Extension bundled inside it. Use either on its own, or both together.
Grab the latest build from the Releases page.
Turnover-Standalone-v*.zip- the standalone app. Also bundles Timeline Index+, a Final Cut Pro Workflow Extension panel, automatically.SHA256SUMS-v*.txt- checksums for verifying a download.
Turnover is signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple - macOS opens it normally, no Gatekeeper warning. If you still see a warning the first time, Control-click the app, choose Open, then confirm once.
- Apple Silicon Mac, macOS 14 or later.
- Final Cut Pro, for importing generated FCPXML results.
- Node.js and required spreadsheet packages are bundled with the app - no separate runtime install needed.
- Extract the downloaded archive.
- Move
Turnover.appto your Applications folder. - Open it from the Applications folder. This also registers Timeline Index+ with Final Cut Pro, which only lists it once Turnover has been opened from there.
From v1.5.0 on, Turnover updates itself: it checks for new versions in the background and installs them from Turnover > Check for Updates....
Turnover Standalone works from an FCPXML export, not a live connection to Final Cut Pro:
- In Final Cut Pro, export the project you want to work on as FCPXML
(File > Export XML), or export a
.fcpxmldbundle. - Drag the
.fcpxml/.fcpxmldinto the Turnover window, or use Choose File. You can also drag a project directly from Final Cut Pro's own browser into the window - Turnover reads it the same way. - Pick a tool from the sidebar and run it.
- Turnover writes its own output XML/files alongside your input - your original export is never modified.
- Import the result back into Final Cut Pro where the tool's own instructions say to (some tools produce a file to import; others export a movie or spreadsheet directly).
- Conform Prep - flattens sync clips, the common kinds of multicam clip, and retimed/speed-ramped structures into a video-only version safe to hand to an online/finishing artist working in a different NLE. It removes audio structures it understands automatically and keeps retimes, titles, markers and effects. Multicam inside compound clips, nested multicam and similar shapes are skipped and listed in the report. Work on a duplicate timeline, since the goal is a flattened copy, not an edit of your original.
- Data Burn-In - builds a customizable on-screen data overlay (source filename, timecode, camera/reel/scene/take metadata, retime/transform values, and more) from your FCPXML, previewed live against a reference movie you supply. Exports either a transparent ProRes 4444 overlay (to composite yourself) or a burned-in H.264/HEVC/ProRes 422 review movie with audio, at the size you choose. See Data Burn-In below for more on how it decides what to show.
- VFX Auto Naming / Reset Naming - numbers
VFX NAMINGtitle clips in sequence, or resets them back to placeholders for re-numbering later. - VFX Auto Marker - creates Standard, To Do, or Chapter markers from VFX naming titles already on the timeline.
- VFX Shot List - extracts a thumbnail for each VFX shot (anchored by marker) from a reference movie you export, and builds an Excel workbook listing every shot.
- VFX Pull EDL - builds a source pull EDL/TSV with handle frames added
to both sides of each range - enter
8to add 8 frames head and tail. - VFX Timeline - places returned VFX renders back into the timeline at
the correct position and tags them with a
VFX Deliverieskeyword. - Marker Export - exports Final Cut Pro markers as EDL, CSV, or TXT.
Data Burn-In reads your FCPXML, builds a frame-by-frame index of what's visible on the timeline at every moment (which clip, its metadata, any retime/transform on it), and lets you place any of that data anywhere on screen as text.
- Choose a preset, or build a custom layout from independent elements: add as many as you like, drag them anywhere in the preview, type plain text or insert data from the Insert Data menu (source filename, timecode, camera, reel/scene/take, custom metadata, retime/transform values, captions, and more). Every change can be undone.
- An element can repeat its own text for each connected layer (stacked above or below the source, labelled V1, V2... like the timeline's video tracks), and can show caption text or VFX shots from the roles you choose, so captions can be burned in as subtitles.
- Preview plays back against a reference movie you choose, with standard J/K/L shuttle controls, so what you see matches what exports.
- Export a transparent overlay (ProRes 4444 with alpha, no reference movie required) to composite yourself, or a burned-in reference (H.264, HEVC or ProRes 422, with audio from your reference movie) as a self-contained review file, scaled up or down while keeping the aspect ratio.
- Save layouts as presets, locally or as a shareable JSON file.
Multicam support is still experimental - if your timeline has multicam clips, flattening them first (in Conform Prep, or with a third-party multicam flattener) before running Data Burn-In gives more reliable results.
Bundled inside Turnover Standalone - no separate install. Move Turnover to the Applications folder and open it from there once; then open the panel from Final Cut Pro's own Window > Extensions > Timeline Index+. Turnover warns in its sidebar if the extension is not registered yet.
This is a different kind of tool from everything else in Turnover: instead of working from an FCPXML export, it reads your currently open project directly from Final Cut Pro's own library, live - the same data Final Cut Pro itself is showing you, updated as you edit, with no export step and nothing that can go stale.
- Every clip actually placed on the active timeline in one list - ordinary clips, sync clips, multicam clips/angles, compound clips, storylines, gaps, transitions, titles, and generators - not just clips with an effect applied.
- Filter by feature (Retime, Optical Flow, Machine Learning, Stabilization, Magnetic Mask, Auto Mask, Tracker, Transform, Spatial Conform, Rate Conform, Crop, Distort, Composition), by clip type, or by Enabled/ Disabled state. Search by name.
- What actually changed on a clip - Blend Mode, Transform, Retime speed, Crop, and more - described in plain language, not raw values.
Click a clip in the list and Final Cut's playhead jumps to it and the clip is selected in the timeline, including clips inside a storyline. A small helper inside Turnover, Turnover Helper, does the selecting; macOS asks you once to allow it, and the panel has a button for that. Move Final Cut's own playhead and the matching row selects itself, and a thin line in the list marks where the playhead is. See the Timeline Index+ Guide for the details.
Exports whatever's currently visible under your search/filter, in timeline order, with real Timeline and Source In/Out timecodes, camera/ reel/scene/take/custom metadata (resolved from your whole library, not just the current project), on-screen Title text, and a plain-language summary of every tracked change - ready to hand off as a shot log or turnover reference.
Before an export that depends on cached analysis (Optical Flow, Machine Learning retime, Stabilization, Magnetic Mask, Auto Mask), click the status icon next to the refresh button for a breakdown of what's actually cached in your library right now - including libraries whose cache lives on a relocated external volume rather than next to the library itself.
Stabilization can be checked per clip reliably, and a missing one links straight to that row. Optical Flow, Machine Learning retime, Magnetic Mask, and Auto Mask can only be confirmed in aggregate (Final Cut Pro's own export warning for these doesn't name the clip either) - every clip requesting one of these is still listed and clickable, so you can quickly jump through and check/re-analyze each one by hand.
A button in the header opens the full Turnover Standalone app directly, for Data Burn-In and the rest of the tools, without leaving Final Cut Pro.
- Requires an open Final Cut Pro project - there's no offline mode, since the whole point is reading the live library.
- Multicam angle camera selection, in the rare case a clip's real media sits behind a synced double-system-sound recording with no other disambiguating signal, uses a reasonable best-effort default rather than a fully general per-placement selector.
The SpliceKit plugin edition has been retired. Every tool it offered is in Turnover Standalone.
- FCPXML can represent visually identical timelines through different nesting and timing structures - keep your original timeline and verify generated results before turnover.
- Conform Prep works best on a duplicate timeline with audio detached; titles and markers should be cleared when validating flattening behavior specifically. Multicam flattening covers the common shapes only.
- Complex or previously unseen nested retime structures may still need a reduced reproducible case reported.
- Data Burn-In's multicam support is experimental - flatten multicam clips first for reliable results.
- Timeline Index+ requires an open Final Cut Pro project.
- Turnover Tools Guide: detailed workflow descriptions and settings for every tool - Conform Prep, Data Burn-In, Marker, VFX Naming, VFX Auto Marker, VFX Shot List, VFX Pull EDL, VFX Timeline, and Title ↔ Caption.
- Data Burn-In Guide: the burn-in user manual - elements, presets, connected layers, captions, analysis details, and export settings.
- Timeline Index+ Guide: the native Final Cut Pro Workflow Extension - live clip index, filters (including roles), playhead following, CSV export, and analysis-cache checking.
- Keyboard Shortcuts: every shortcut in the main window, the Burn-In Customizer and Timeline Index+.
- Release notes: v1.5.3 · v1.5.2 · v1.5.1 · v1.5.0 · v1.4.3 · v1.4.2 · v1.4.1 · v1.4.0 · v1.3.2 · v1.3.1 · v1.3.0 · v1.2.2 · v1.2.1 · v1.2.0 · v1.1.0
From v1.5.0, Turnover checks for new versions in the background (about once a day) and installs them after you confirm. Use Check for Updates... in the app menu or the sidebar to check manually. Earlier versions do not update themselves: install v1.5.0 by hand once.
Download page: https://wtembundit.github.io/Turnover/
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