AI Podcast Clips in Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve: XML and EDL Export

If you edit podcasts for a living, an AI clipper is only useful if its picks can land in your own timeline. Skapo picks the moments from a whole episode, and on its paid plans every clip also downloads as a timeline for Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve: the clip rebuilt as cuts against your original episode, so you can reframe, caption and grade it your way at full source quality. This guide covers what the files contain, how to import them in each editor, and what stays outside the file.

What you download

The XML is Final Cut Pro 7 XML because that is the XML Premiere Pro imports. Premiere has never imported Final Cut Pro X’s FCPXML, and DaVinci Resolve reads both, so this is the one format that opens in both editors. Sequences run at a whole frame rate, 30 or 60 fps, the same as the rendered clip.

Importing in Premiere Pro

1. On the job page, download “Timeline for all clips (XML)”, or one clip’s XML from that clip.
2. In Premiere Pro, choose File > Import and pick the XML. Each clip arrives as its own sequence in a bin.
3. The media shows as offline. Link it to your own copy of the episode once; every sequence relinks with it.
4. Set the sequence to vertical if you are finishing for Shorts, Reels or TikTok, and reframe the shot.
5. Import the clip’s SRT as captions and style them as you usually do.

Importing in DaVinci Resolve

1. Download the XML (all clips or one) or a clip’s EDL.
2. Choose File > Import > Timeline and pick the file.
3. When Resolve asks for the media, point it at your copy of the episode.
4. Reframe, add the SRT as a subtitle track, grade and deliver.

What is not in the file

• Captions. A Final Cut Pro 7 XML clip cannot carry subtitles that Premiere or Resolve import as a caption track, so captions are a separate SRT or VTT per clip.
• Framing, split-screen and branding. The vertical crop, the split-screen for two to four speakers, the burned-in captions and a client’s logo are in Skapo’s rendered MP4. The timeline gives you the cuts so you can make your own version of the rest.
• The media itself. The file references the episode by name. For a YouTube episode that is the video’s title, for an upload your own file name. You relink to your copy, so you finish at your source’s full resolution.
• A few older clips. Some older clips that had silences trimmed cannot be mapped back to the source. Those say so instead of handing you an inaccurate cut list.

Timeline or rendered clip?

Use the rendered MP4 when the clip is ready to post as it is: framed, captioned, split-screen where it applies, and ranked against the other moments. Use the timeline when you or your client want your own captions, colour or framing, or when the clip goes into a longer edit. Many editors do both: post the strongest few straight away and finish the rest in their own timeline. Every clip on the job page shows where it sits in the episode and why it was picked, which is the part that saves the scrubbing.

Which plans include it

Timelines come with the paid plans, Freelancer Pro and White Label. The free plan lets you run an episode and see which moments Skapo picks. For agencies clipping several shows, White Label adds a workspace and brand kit per client and delivers approved clips as one bundle; the video editors page covers the rest of the workflow.