Import from Premiere, Final Cut or Resolve

Already organizing footage in your NLE? The Eddie AI desktop app connects with Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve, so you can send footage into an Eddie project without hunting for the files by hand.

Set it up

1. Install the desktop app — it includes the NLE integrations.
2. In the web app's import options you'll see Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro entries; each points you to the desktop app if you don't have it yet.

The round trip

The integrations work in both directions:

• In: bring the footage you've gathered in your NLE into an Eddie project, so Eddie can transcribe, analyze and rough-cut it.
• Out: when the cut is done, export a timeline back to the same editor and relink to your original media. See Export to your editor.

For DaVinci Resolve specifically, the hand-off runs through a Resolve script installed with the desktop app — in Resolve, look under Workspace > Scripts for Eddie AI AE. See Getting an Eddie timeline into DaVinci Resolve for details and troubleshooting.

Before you import from Premiere, Resolve or Final Cut

These rules apply to all three editors:

• Bring everything in one import. Adding more media from your editor to a project after its first import isn't supported yet. Support is coming soon. Until then, select every clip, multicam clip and timeline you need before you click Import. If you need more footage later, start a new project.
• Import a timeline on its own. A timeline can't go in the same import as other clips.
• Don't mix your editor's multicam clips or timelines with standalone files (.mp4, .mov and so on) in the same project.

If a file can't be imported, Eddie tells you which one and why, and the credits for that file are refunded automatically. See Import stuck or failed.

Importing from Premiere Pro

The Premiere import runs through the Eddie AI AE panel, which the desktop app installs for you (see Get the Eddie AI extension).

• Open Premiere Pro, the Eddie AI AE panel (Window → Extensions → Eddie AI AE) and Adobe Media Encoder. Eddie uses Media Encoder to prepare your clips. Keep it open, and keep your computer awake, until the import finishes. If Media Encoder stops responding partway through, the import stops too.
• Very large bins: if the list of assets from your bin doesn't load, move the clips you want into a smaller bin and try again.

Importing from DaVinci Resolve

Keep Resolve open with the Eddie AI AE script running (Workspace → Scripts → Eddie AI AE) until the import finishes. See Get the Eddie AI extension if the script isn't there.

Resolve from the Mac App Store (free or Studio) works too, with Eddie desktop version 4.0.42 or later.

Importing from Final Cut Pro

Select the clips, multicam clips or project in your Final Cut event and drag them into Eddie together, as one batch.

Prefer to skip the NLE on the way in? Plain uploads and cloud imports work from any browser.