Open your film in After Effects or DaVinci Resolve

Click “Export”, then under “File” choose “After Effects project” or “DaVinci Resolve project”, and “Export”. The project is made in your browser, as a ZIP file: count a few minutes, and a few hundred MB, for 30 seconds of film. It exports like the MP4: the formats and the quality your plan opens, a paid plan for a Pro piece, and on the free plan the end line over the last two seconds.

Then “Download”, and unzip it. Inside: the script or the timeline, a picture of each drawn element, the transitions rendered, the sound, your own pictures, the film as a reference, a README that says how to open it, and fonts.txt. Every font is free: install the ones fonts.txt names before you open the project, or the program puts others in their place.

File › Scripts › Run Script File…, then choose Build in After Effects.jsx in the unzipped folder. It builds one composition per scene and a main one that plays the film. What stays editable: every text as a live text layer, every move as keyframes with their eases, the camera, markers at every cut and in time with the music, the sound. What comes as pictures: drawings, 3-D objects, shaders, effects and the transitions; the film's style is in the reference film only.

The free version is enough. File › Import › Timeline…, choose timeline.fcpxml and tick the automatic import of the source clips. Each scene is a clip, the transitions are on the track above. If clips show as offline, relink them to the unzipped folder. To change a scene's words or motion, open its clip in the Fusion page and drag the scene's .setting file, in the fusion folder, onto the node area: its texts are Text+ tools, its moves keyframes.

The assistant opens the export window set for the project: you click “Export”. Your own assistant, through the connector on your computer, makes the two projects too (Developers). The program is yours to get: After Effects CS6 or later, which is paid, or DaVinci Resolve 18 or later. The project is for your own films: you may change it as much as you like, never give, sell or publish it as a template, a preset or a library (terms, article 11). After Effects is a trademark of Adobe. DaVinci Resolve and Fusion are trademarks of Blackmagic Design. Cutscene is not affiliated with either.