Drag your AIFF, WAVE or MP3 files to the XMiL Songster icon, and it will create an XML document that includes the metadata from the files' ID3 tags. It shoots that XML right into Final Cut Pro and the clips will appear automatically in a new untitled project.

Watch a short video demonstration of XMiL Songster here.

Do you use lots of audio files in your project - music or sound effects? Are you tired of typing meta-information into the Final Cut Pro bin column that are in iTunes anyway? XMiL Songster is for you, and it is available now. Read more about XMiL Songster here.

XMiL SongsterALE is for Avid users. It's very similar to XMiL Songster, but the result is an Avid Log Exchange file (not an XML file). Drag your AIFF, WAVE or MP3 files to the XMiL SongsterALE icon, and it will create an ALE document that includes the metadata from the files' ID3 tags. After the log file has been imported into the Avid, the sound files can be batch-imported, including all metadata in custom columns.

More about XMiL SongsterALE is here.

XMiL Sequencer converts an XML file exported from a Final Cut Pro timeline and turns it into an Avid Log Exchange (ALE) file. This file can then be imported into an Avid nonlinear editing system, turning the segments used in the FCP timeline into Avid master clips.

Output a video tape from Final Cut Pro and digitize the clips in the Avid to edit. Metadata from the original QuickTimes, such as source time code, comes across in the ALE file from XMiL Sequencer. This provides the capability to trace back to the original QuickTimes, and, in turn, to their original source files, such as DPX files or Red Cine files from the Red camera. Alternatively, finish the show using the Final Cut Pro output tapes. Read more about XMiL Sequencer here. Watch a short video demonstration of XMiL Sequencer here.

Still in the works is XMiL Exporter, an application that works on clips contained in an XML export from Final Cut Pro. Text files for import into database applications are generated. Those text files can contain information on markers placed on the clips in Final Cut Pro. In addition, still frames can be exported from the QuickTime files based on markers and the QuickTimes' Finder-level poster frames can be set. The anticipated release date for XMiL Exporter is in the second quarter of 2008.

If you have any questions, suggestions or requests for applications around Final Cut Pro and XML, please send an email to info@xmil.biz.