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You can send your edit from Ponder to Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro or CapCut and keep working there. Click Export and pick your app. From there you can send the project straight into the app with Send to…, or, for Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro, download a file to import yourself. Sending carries over more, so use it when you can. See Downloading a file instead. For other ways to get your edit out, like a video file or a share link, see Ways to export. To find the project once it’s sent, see Projects sent to your editing app. To see what comes across to each app, like titles, color grades and synced cameras, see What carries over to your editing app.
Ponder has keyboard presets for each of these apps, so trimming, cutting and zooming feel the way you’re used to. See Keyboard shortcuts.

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Premiere Pro

Click Send to Premiere Pro. Ponder sets everything up, opens Premiere, creates a project and adds your timeline. If you send again later, it updates the same project, and Ponder checks with you before replacing anything you’ve changed in Premiere. If you’ve got a different Premiere project open, Ponder opens its own project next to yours and never closes yours. You can also send from the chat. Just type “send this to Premiere.”

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DaVinci Resolve

With Resolve Studio, click Send to DaVinci Resolve. Ponder opens or creates a Resolve project and adds two bins: Ponder Timelines for your cuts and Ponder Media for your footage. If you send again and you’ve changed a timeline in Resolve, Ponder checks with you first. It only replaces the timelines you tick. Resolve Studio looks for changes to both the cut and the grade. The free version only looks for changes to the grade. With the free version of Resolve, there are a couple of extra steps:
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Open a project in Resolve

Open the Resolve project you want the edit to go into.
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Send from Ponder

Click Export, choose DaVinci Resolve, and click Send to DaVinci Resolve.
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Run the Ponder script in Resolve

Go to Workspace → Scripts → Ponder Send to Resolve.
If you want the agent to work inside Resolve itself, see Connectors.

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Final Cut Pro

Click Send to Final Cut Pro. If you have a library open, Ponder imports the edit straight into it. If not, Final Cut asks you to pick or create a library.
If nothing seems to happen after you send, look behind your other windows. Final Cut’s library picker can open there.

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CapCut

Click Export, open the Send tab and choose CapCut. Sending to CapCut works on Mac and Windows. There’s no download option for CapCut.

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Downloading a file instead

For Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro, you can download a file and import it yourself instead of sending. It’s handy for handing the edit to someone on another computer, or for keeping a backup. Premiere and Resolve use an .xml file, and Final Cut uses .fcpxml. If you export several timelines, you get one ZIP in the browser, or a folder of your choice in the desktop app. Some things only come across with a send:
  • Resolve: the color grade, clip colors and stabilization. You can’t download a Resolve file for a graded timeline at all.
  • Premiere: editable titles and select markers on your clips. In a download, titles come in as picture clips, so change the wording in Ponder before you export.

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Before you start cutting

Once the edit’s in your app, compare it with your Ponder timeline. Check that it’s the same length, every clip is online, there’s audio on every track you expect, slow-motion clips start and end where they should, and labels, markers and color grades look the way they did in Ponder. If a send stops because footage is missing, Ponder lists the files. They were probably moved, renamed or deleted, or they’re on a drive that isn’t plugged in. Put the files back or plug the drive in, then send again. If you moved the footage on purpose, ask Ponder to relink it.