Your client’s notes, as to-do markers in Final Cut.

From your client’s note to your timeline.

1. 1Your client leaves notes

   Your client opens your link on a phone or a computer, pauses on a frame and types. The note keeps the exact moment and your client’s name.

2. 2You download the markers

   In the project, you download the notes on one film for Final Cut Pro. The frame rate is read from your master file, and when it can’t be, you pick your clip’s rate before you download. Drop frame is handled at 29.97 and 59.94.

3. 3You import them into Final Cut

   In Final Cut, choose File, then Import, then XML. You get a project with one title the length of the film, carrying every note as a to-do marker. The file holds no media, so nothing comes in as a missing file.

4. 4You paste them over your cut

   Copy that title, put the playhead on the first frame of the film in your own project, and paste it as a connected clip (Option-V). Each marker sits on the frame your client noted. The title shows nothing in the picture.

5. 5You tick them off as you cut

   Each marker reads your client’s name and note. You tick it when it’s fixed, and the list empties as you work through the round.

What comes over, and what stays.

• Notes on the film

  Each one becomes a to-do marker on its frame, with the name of whoever left it.

• Notes you already marked done

  Left out, unless you ask for them. Then they come in already ticked.

• Pins on photos and PDF pages

  They have no moment on a timeline, so you get them in the spreadsheet and the plain list instead.

• Drawings on a frame

  A marker can’t hold a shape, so the drawing stays on the note in your studio, on the frame it was drawn on.

• Replies

  The replies under a note stay in your studio. The note itself comes over.

Other editors, and other tools.

Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve aren’t supported yet. For any other app, you download your client’s notes as a spreadsheet or a plain timecode list, on every plan.

Notes already in an email or a text? Paste them into the free notes to Final Cut markers tool and download the same file, with no account.

Every way to do it, step by step: how to import comments into Final Cut Pro.

Other review tools bring client comments into Final Cut too: Frame.io exports them for Final Cut, Premiere, Resolve and Media Composer, and Dropbox Replay drops them onto a Final Cut timeline as markers. Here the markers come off the same link your client approves and downloads the finals from, with the photos on it too.

What other tools do was read on their own pages on October 16, 2026. Compared with Frame.io