Optimize your Final Cut Pro workflow.

During heavy processing tasks (like archiving massive amounts of video data), macOS might display the "Application Not Responding" status in the Activity Monitor or show the Spinning Beach Ball cursor. Please ignore this.

The app is not crashing; it is simply experiencing a heavy workload and utilizing maximum system resources to finish the job. The processing will complete successfully in the background, and the rest of your macOS system remains fully functional while you wait.

Crucial: Never use the same external drive (e.g. a USB-C SSD) as both source and destination. Due to the enormous data volumes involved, this can cause the drive to disconnect. Always use a separate drive for your destination archive.

Frame drift. Due to FFmpeg limitations, a minimal 1–2 frame drift may occur. This is structurally unavoidable but practically irrelevant, as the minimum 5-second trim handles easily cover the offset.

Metadata cleanup. During archiving, advanced macOS attributes (Finder tags, quarantine flags, Spotlight metadata) are removed. All essential data — video, audio, containers, timecodes and FCP requirements — is fully preserved.

Roles only. The app identifies standard Roles, but not Sub-Roles.

Overlays. Overlays created with our GPS to FCP Converter App are trimmed frame-accurately.

Supported formats. .mov, .mp4 and .avi files are trimmed and archived. Other video formats are copied without trimming.

Dropzones. The link to a dropzone's content is lost during archiving. As long as the file is present in the timeline — ideally placed below the primary storyline (lane 0), at the position of the dropzone — the source is of course copied along with your archive. Afterwards, simply re-link it in your project.

The following clip types are excepted from trimming and are copied untrimmed instead:

• Speed ramps (3 or more timing points, or non-linear speed changes)
• Reversed clips
• J/L cuts with an adjacent transition

Multicam. Multicam clips are currently not supported and will not be processed.

Compound clips. Copy errors may occasionally occur with Compound Clips, meaning some associated video files might be missing from the final archive.

Object tracking. Object-tracking data is lost during consolidation and may need to be recreated in your new project.

When you re-import the consolidated XML into Final Cut Pro, the project is created correctly and all effects are applied. You may still see the warnings below — these are inherent to Final Cut Pro's own XML export behavior and are not caused by Creator Companion PRO.

Recommendation: import archive bundles into a fresh, empty library.

Final Cut Pro identifies every media file by an internal UID. When you import an archive into a library that has seen the same media before (earlier imports, tests, or the original project), FCP may link the clips to the previously known library entries instead of the media files inside the archive bundle. If those old references are offline, the clips appear red — even though the files are present and intact in the archive's Media folder.

No media is lost in either case: all files are physically contained in the bundle. The behavior only concerns how FCP links clips on import.

Creator Companion PRO relies on FFmpeg / FFprobe for media processing. You can download the build here: