Open MLT files in your browser
The project Shotcut, the free video editor, saves as MLT XML. See its timeline right here, with every transition and marker and the media it needs. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your project opens as its timeline: the tracks down the left, and their clips along it with the pictures and waves of the media dropped with it, under its markers.
- Every track and clip • Zoom from the whole edit to a frame
- Media • A tab of every file it uses, missing ones marked
- Titles and transitions • Their words and lengths on the clips
- Export • Save the clips and the media list as CSV
About MLT
Shotcut saves its projects in MLT’s XML, the multimedia framework it plays through: a producer or chain for each video, picture, song and color with its path and its filters, a playlist of clips and blanks for each track, and the tractor that stacks them, with Shotcut’s names for the tracks and its markers. A crossfade between two clips is a small tractor of their ends.
Filepeek opens it as Shotcut shows it: V1 at the bottom of the video tracks, A1 under them, each clip by its caption, its text filter’s words, and each crossfade on the clip it leads into. Drop the project with its media and each clip shows its pictures and waves.
Any app built on MLT can write these files, and melt, MLT’s command line player, plays them.
Shotcut project
.mlt
Format
- MIME type
- application/xml
- Made by
- Meltytech and the MLT project
Inside the file
- Holds
- Tracks, clips, transitions and markers
- Media
- Video, audio and pictures, by their paths
- Format
- MLT XML
- Made by
- Shotcut and MLT
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens MLT projects in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers show their XML as text.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open MLT
- WindowsShotcut, free
- MacShotcut, free
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
How do I open an MLT file?
Drop it on this page or press Peek an MLT. It opens as its timeline in your browser, on Windows, a Mac, an iPhone or Android, with nothing to install.
Why do my clips show their names instead of pictures?
A project only keeps its media’s paths. Drop it with its media and each clip finds its file by its name.
Why does Shotcut say files are missing?
The files moved since the project was saved. The Media tab here lists every path, and Export saves the list as CSV.
How do I render an MLT file to a video?
Open it in Shotcut and export, or run melt with an output, as melt project.mlt -consumer avformat:movie.mp4.
Is an MLT file the same as a Kdenlive project?
Both are MLT XML, so Filepeek reads them the same way, but each app keeps its own properties in it.