Turnover

Turnover bundles the Final Cut Pro turnover work that usually gets stitched together by hand — conform prep, review burn-ins, and VFX shot tracking — into one tool, built on a shared FCPXML planning core.

Three ways to work:

• Turnover Standalone — drag and drop FCPXML or a Final Cut Pro project into a compact native macOS app. No other plugin required.
• Timeline Index+ — a native Final Cut Pro Workflow Extension panel (Window > Extensions > Timeline Index+) that reads the active project directly from Final Cut Pro’s own library, live — every clip on the timeline, playhead-following, CSV export, and analysis-cache checking, with no FCPXML export step. Bundled inside Turnover Standalone.
• Turnover for SpliceKit — runs the full tool set from inside Final Cut Pro’s own Turnover menu, for studios already running SpliceKit.

Conform Prep flattens sync clips and does a conservative, video-only reconstruction of a timeline ahead of online conform — similar in result to detaching and deleting audio before flattening — while keeping the original timeline untouched.

Data Burn-In builds a frame-resolved preview cache from FCPXML, so review movies can carry exactly the data a client needs: source filename, source and timeline timecode, metadata, retime, transform, and VFX notes — exported as transparent ProRes 4444 overlays or burned-in H.264/HEVC movies.

The VFX tools round out the loop: VFX Shot List captures marker-anchored thumbnails into an Excel workbook, VFX Pull EDL builds a source pull list with handles, and VFX Auto Naming / Auto Marker / VFX Timeline keep shot naming, markers, and returned renders in sync across the cut.

Turnover is still a work in progress — some FCPXML edge cases (complex retime/speed-ramp combinations, nested sync clips, unusual multicam shapes) are known to need refinement. Work on a duplicate timeline and report reproducible cases through the GitHub Issues page.