Selects hands off to Adobe Premiere as a .prproj file, Premiere's own project format. It opens as a native project with your clips, tracks, cuts, and markers already in place, so there is no XML to parse and nothing to rebuild by hand.
Hand off to Premiere
Open the timeline you want to work from.
Click [Export] in the top right and choose [Adobe Premiere] under [Handoff to]. If you picked Premiere as your main editing tool, its icon sits beside [Export]: click the icon to go straight to Premiere.
Choose your settings in the Handoff to Premiere dialog, set where the file goes in [Save in], then click [Handoff].
Handoff runs in the background, so you can keep working. When the handoff finishes, a dialog opens with your .prproj file name at the top. Click [Open folder] to find the file.
Open the .prproj file in Premiere.
Note: With more than one draft in the project, Selects asks which ones to hand off. All of them are selected to begin with, so handing off without changing anything takes every draft across. See Export your edit to editing software, or as a transcript or video.
Handoff settings
Three settings sit at the top of the dialog:
Premiere version: choose [2024], [2025], or [2026] to match the version you will open the file in.
Nest multi-cam: when this is on, your camera angles are nested into a single sequence. When it is off, each camera arrives on its own track so you can switch angles freely in Premiere.
Include captions: adds captions to the exported sequence. Selects uses the draft’s captions if it has any, and your transcript if it does not.
Click [More settings] for the rest:
Caption language: shows when Include captions is on and your captions have a translation. Choose [Original], a translation, or [Original + translation].
Separate caption tracks by speaker: shows when Include captions is on and more than one person speaks. Each speaker’s captions go on their own track. Off by default.
Topic titles: choose [As markers], [As captions], or [Off].
Enable all multicam angles: available only while Nest multi-cam is off. Every camera of a synced clip arrives enabled, not just the selected angle.
Include muted audio tracks: brings your muted tracks across alongside the audible ones.
Keep all cut points: keeps every cut you made, including B-roll and standalone audio, instead of merging neighboring clips that came from the same source. On by default, and remembered between exports.
Selects remembers these settings, so your next handoff starts from whatever you chose last time. That includes Nest multi-cam, so it is worth checking before a multicam export rather than assuming it is off.
What lands in your Premiere project
What lands in your Premiere project is a copy of what you already had in Selects. The Project panel mirrors your Selects project panel, so your folders keep the names and the structure you gave them. Selects does not rename or reorganize anything on the way out. Clip color labels come across on every media track, not only Main, and folder colors come across too. If you use Premiere Assistant on the same computer, your transcript is already there when you open the project, so there is no need to transcribe it again.
Alongside your own folders you will find three things:
Synced Timelines: the one folder Selects adds itself. It sits at the top of the project panel and holds every timeline you synced.
Your drafts, as sequences: every draft arrives as its own Premiere sequence, keeping the name it had in Selects.
A multicam sequence: included on every multicam handoff, even when Nest multi-cam is off, so you can switch angles in Premiere without handing off again.
Note: If you use Selects in a language other than English, the Synced Timelines folder still arrives in Premiere under its English name. Selects translates that folder label inside its own interface only.
What does not carry over to Premiere
Your edit carries over to Premiere, but some of the finishing touches you add in Selects do not. These stay in Selects and appear only when you export a video from Selects:
Graphics: text, caption styles, and stickers from the [Graphics] app. Their spots arrive as empty gaps.
Visual effects and transitions from the [Effects] app. A transition becomes a plain cut. Sounds you add there do come across, as audio clips.
Filters and color grading, including [Color & Tone] in [Adjust].
Position, scale, and other transform changes you make in [Adjust].
Keyframes: animation does not carry over, so nothing moves or changes over time.
Audio fades and volume changes: clips arrive at their original levels.
Caption styling: with Include captions on, captions arrive as plain text.
If your drafts have effects, filters, color grading, transitions, graphics, keyframes, or audio fades, Selects shows Some edits won’t carry over in the handoff before the handoff starts. Click [Handoff anyway] to continue without them, or [See what Handoff supports] to compare what goes across. Your draft in Selects keeps everything. To keep these edits, export a video instead.
Tip: The [Graphics], [Effects], and [Adjust] panels show an [Export only] label at the bottom, a reminder that effects, graphics, and adjustments made there appear only in an exported video. Click it to see what a handoff carries.
FAQs
How do I keep my camera angles separate in Premiere?
Turn Nest multi-cam off before you hand off. Each camera then arrives on its own track, and you can switch between angles in Premiere as normal. With it on, all the angles are nested into one sequence instead.
Can I choose which drafts to hand off?
Yes. With more than one draft, [Select timelines to handoff] opens and you choose what goes across. Everything is selected to begin with, so clicking straight through hands off all of them, and you can clear anything you do not want. With a single draft there is nothing to choose and it goes straight across.
Can I use proxy files with Premiere?
Yes. Create proxies in Premiere, import only the proxy folder into Selects, then relink to your original camera files after you open the .prproj. See Using proxy files in Selects.