Open in Premiere Pro

With Premiere Pro set as your editor, every "Open in" button in Hailo hands Premiere an .xml timeline that references your original files at full quality. Nothing is re-encoded.

Set your editor under Settings > Your editor, or in the Edit settings gear under NLE Target. Both are the same setting. See Edit settings.

Open a timeline

1. On the done panel after a run, click Open in Premiere. The same button sits on every row under What the run actually made, on a couple's Edit hub, and on the film builder's done screen.
2. Hailo exports the timeline if it has not already, then opens it in Premiere. The status line reads "Exporting your timeline…", then "Opened in your editor."
3. The timeline appears as a sequence in your open Premiere project, with every clip coloured by moment.

If Premiere does not open by itself, use Show files (or Reveal in Finder) and import the .xml through File > Import in Premiere.

A new project or the project you have open

To choose where a timeline goes, open the ... menu on the finished screen, click Change, and pick under Where it opens in How it lands in your editor:

• New project: Hailo makes a project for this wedding and says its name: 'Made "{project}" in Premiere and imported your timeline.'
• Project I have open: the timeline goes into the project open in Premiere, and Hailo names it: 'Added to "{project}" in Premiere.'

A big wedding can take Premiere a few minutes to bring in. Hailo waits for it rather than sending it twice: "Premiere is still bringing it into "{project}". It will be there when it finishes."

Before anything imports into the project you have open, Hailo checks two things:

• It holds another couple's footage. A card titled That's {couple}'s project asks first. Bring it in anyway imports it there; Cancel imports nothing ("Nothing imported. Open the project you want it in, then click again.").
• It already holds this wedding's clips. You see "{project} already has N of this wedding's clips. Importing again adds a second copy of every one." Press Use the clips already there to build from the clips it has, importing nothing, or Import a second copy. When building from the existing clips is not possible, the choice is Import anyway.

Build the project

Build the project appears on the done panel for Premiere Pro only. Its tooltip reads "Build a Premiere project with your footage in bins and every timeline this run made". It puts your footage into bins, one per moment in the order of the day, files every clip under its moment, and adds each timeline the run made as its own sequence.

1. Open Premiere Pro.
2. Click Build the project. The label reads "Building in Premiere…".
3. When it finishes the label reads "Built · 12 bins, 412 clips, 2 timelines".

Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve do not have this button, because they take the whole project in one file.

Get a real multicam clip

Premiere creates a multicam source sequence only from its own menu, so Hailo clicks that menu item for you. That needs the macOS Accessibility permission, once. See Multicam permission for Premiere Pro.

With the permission on, a Multicam film build opens in Premiere as "a real multicam clip, angles synced, already on a timeline. Press 1, 2, 3 to cut between them."

Without it, your synced angles open on their own tracks and you make the multicam yourself, from that same timeline: Select All, right-click and choose Nest, then Clip > Multi-Camera > Enable. Nesting keeps every angle exactly where Hailo put it, so the sync survives.

Hailo also saves a multicam file next to the timeline. Do not import that one by hand. Premiere takes the file but drops every angle to the start, so it plays your cameras seconds apart with nothing on screen to tell you. That file only arrives synced when Hailo hands it over itself, which is what the Accessibility permission is for.

Timeline colours

Each clip carries a label colour by moment. The legend under the completion banner shows the mapping. Change the colours in the Edit settings gear under Timeline Label Colors, click Save Colors, then Re-export with Current Preferences. See Re-export.

If Premiere does not open

What you see	What to do
Nothing happens after Open in Premiere	Premiere is not installed where macOS expects it, or it is still starting. Open Premiere first, then click again.
"Revealed the timeline in Finder."	Hailo could not find Premiere, so it showed you the file. Import it through File > Import.
"No project is open."	Build the project needs an open Premiere project. Open or create one, then click again.
"Could not read the run: …" or "Could not write the plan: …"	The deliverables folder or the footage drive is not reachable. Check the drive.
The sequence imports but every clip is offline	The footage drive has a different name than when Hailo analyzed it. Relink the media in Premiere, or plug the drive in under its original name.
The multicam did not appear	See Multicam permission for Premiere Pro.