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How to export an animatic to Adobe Premiere

When the animatic is locked, the editor opens it as a sequence on day one of post — not a flat reference video they have to manually rebuild. The Premiere XMEML export carries the animatic timeline directly into Premiere with every clip referenced, every cut placed, and every label intact.

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Approve the animatic in /animate

Run the final pass: timing, transitions, audio levels, camera-move overlays. Toggle the safe-zone overlay (16:9, 21:9 anamorphic, 9:16 social, 1:1 square) and double-check framing. When the cut is locked, click Export.

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Choose Premiere XMEML from the export menu

The export panel offers MP4 / MOV (rendered video) and three editorial formats: Premiere XMEML, DaVinci EDL, and OpenTimelineIO (OTIO). XMEML is the richest — it carries clip metadata, transitions, audio levels, colour labels, and bin structure.

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Download the bundle ZIP

The export creates a ZIP containing the XMEML manifest plus a folder of every frame's source PNG. The editor unzips into their Premiere project root and opens the XMEML — Premiere re-links every clip to the PNG bin automatically.

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Editor opens in Premiere

File → Import in Premiere; choose the XMEML. A sequence appears matching the animatic frame-for-frame, with all your scene labels carried across as Premiere markers, all your audio tracks placed at the right levels, and all your transitions slotted in as Premiere's native equivalents.

Same export works for DaVinci Resolve (use the EDL output) and any OpenTimelineIO-compatible system (Avid, Houdini, Nuke, modern VFX pipelines).

Try it

Open /animate and follow the steps

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