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Batch exports and handoff to other editors

Beyond exporting one video at a time, Sprocket can line up several exports to run back to back, and it can write your edit out as an interchange file that other editing programs can open.

What’s in this guide

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Export several files at once

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The Export Queue lets you set up several exports and run them one after another — for example the same video as both a 4K master and a 1080p web copy, without waiting at the screen between them.

  1. Open File ▸ Export Queue… (or press Ctrl+Shift+E).
  2. Click Add…. The Export Settings window opens; choose your settings and where to save the file, just like a normal export. The job is added to the list.
  3. Repeat Add… for each export you want.
  4. Click Start. Sprocket runs the jobs in order, showing progress for each.

Each job in the list shows its name, its format, and a status: Queued, Exporting… with a progress bar, Done, Cancelled, or Failed.

  • Stop cancels the running job and any still waiting.
  • Cancel on a single job stops just that one.
  • Remove takes a finished job off the list, and Clear Finished removes all completed jobs at once.

Tip: You can keep adding jobs while the queue is running — a job you add mid-run is picked up after the current ones finish.

When the queue finishes, the status bar summarizes how many exports succeeded, failed, or were cancelled.

Hand your edit to another editor

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If you want to continue your edit in another program — or hand your cuts to an editor who uses a different app — Sprocket can write your sequence out as an interchange file. This describes your edit (which clips, in what order, with what timing) rather than rendering a finished video, so the other program can rebuild the timeline using the original media.

Open File ▸ Export Interchange and choose a format:

  • EDL (CMX3600) — the long-standing Edit Decision List format, understood by almost every editing and color program.
  • Final Cut XML — a richer format that carries more of your edit’s detail.

Pick where to save the file, and Sprocket writes it out.

Tip: An interchange file doesn’t include the video itself — just the instructions for rebuilding the edit. The other program needs access to your original media files to relink them.

Interchange formats can’t represent everything Sprocket can do. If some detail of your sequence can’t be carried across, Sprocket tells you exactly what was left out after the file is saved, so there are no surprises on the other end.

Where to go next

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