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 native macOS app, built on a shared FCPXML planning core.

Two ways to work:

• Turnover Standalone — drag and drop FCPXML or a Final Cut Pro project into the app. Every tool lives in one window with a sidebar, and the FCPXML you are working on stays at the top because every tool uses the same file.
• 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; open Turnover once from the Applications folder and the extension registers itself. The first time you open the panel, macOS asks whether Turnover may control Final Cut Pro — choose Allow.

The SpliceKit plugin offered up to v1.4.3 has been retired — everything it did is in the app.

Conform Prep flattens sync clips and the common multicam clips into plain video-only clips that reference the original media, with retimes, titles, markers and effects kept — while keeping the original timeline untouched. Multicam inside compound clips, nested multicam, and angles that are sync clips are skipped and reported.

Data Burn-In builds a frame-resolved preview cache from FCPXML, then lets you design the burn-in from independent elements you drag anywhere in the preview: source filename, source and timeline timecode, metadata, retime and transform, connected layers (numbered V1, V2, V3…), and caption text. Export transparent ProRes 4444 overlays, or burned-in H.264, HEVC or ProRes 422 review movies, scaled by percentage or a custom size while keeping the picture’s shape.

The VFX tools round out the loop, and work with Final Cut Pro captions as well as titles: VFX Shot List captures thumbnails into an Excel workbook, VFX Pull EDL builds a source pull list with handles, VFX Naming / Auto Marker / Title ↔ Caption keep shot naming and markers consistent, and VFX Timeline puts returned renders back in the cut.

Turnover requires an Apple silicon Mac with macOS 14 or later, is signed and notarized by Apple, and — from v1.5.0 — updates itself.

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.