How do you import AI-generated video clips into Final Cut Pro?

AI-generated video clips import into Final Cut Pro exactly like any other footage: download them from your generation tool as standard MP4 or MOV files, then press Command+I (File > Import > Media) or drag them into a library event. No transcoding step, no special plugin, and no interchange format is required for individual clips.

Download your clips from the generation platform first — the invideo agent delivers finished assets as a downloadable folder rather than editing them itself; one documented production received 26 video clips, 4 text cards, and 1 music score in a single export, ready for NLE assembly. The invideo agent is a production asset generator, and a separate editor such as Final Cut Pro handles the final cut.

Step 1 — Import the clips. Open your library, press Command+I or go to File > Import > Media, select the downloaded clips, and choose the event they should land in. Drag-and-drop from Finder into an event works identically. As one professional editor put it while cutting AI B-roll into a client project: "It works the same way as you import any other clip in Final Cut. You just press command I." Individual clips need no interchange format; FCPXML — Apple's documented exchange format — only matters when you're moving whole sequences and metadata between applications, not raw generated media.

Step 2 — Organize for heavy selection. Import everything you generated, then select inside the browser rather than pre-filtering in Finder. AI production runs long on raw material: one documented animated episode generated 164 clips and used 41 in the final cut (a ~25% selection rate), with an average of only 5 seconds used from each 15-second clip. Keyword the clips by scene or shot number on import so you can rate and reject fast — the edit is where most of the footage gets cut, not the generation stage.

Step 3 — Cut AI clips alongside original footage. Once imported, AI-generated clips behave like any other media on the timeline — you can mix them with camera footage, rate takes, and grade them normally. If you're generating B-roll to match footage you already shot, run the loop in the other direction too: use File > Share > Save Current Frame in Final Cut Pro to export a frame as a PNG, upload it to the invideo agent as an anchor image, and every new generation will match the lighting, color, and style of your existing shot before it ever hits your import queue.

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It works the same way as you import any other clip in Final Cut. You just press command I.

— a professional editor, from a documented AI B-roll workflow in Final Cut Pro