davinci-resolve-mcp: community DaVinci Resolve MCP server for Studio

• Opens, lists, creates, saves and deletes your Resolve projects

  Lists the projects in your Project Manager, opens, creates, saves, imports, exports or deletes them, and gives a one-shot summary of the open project.

  Try: “List my projects and open the one called 'My Film'”

  Delete · project_manager

• Builds and edits timelines: tracks, clips, titles, imports and exports

  Works on the current timeline: adds or removes tracks and clips, creates timelines, adds titles and generators, and imports or exports edit lists. Risky changes archive the timeline first.

  Try: “Create a timeline called 'Assembly Cut' from all clips in the current bin”

  Delete · timeline

• Organizes the Media Pool: bins, clips, timelines and imports

  Creates bins, moves and deletes clips, builds timelines and multicam clips from clips, and imports media into the Media Pool, with safer checked versions of each action.

  Try: “Make a bin for each shooting day and move the clips into them”

  Delete · media_pool

• Browses your drives and imports files into the Media Pool

  Lists the drives and folders Resolve can see and imports files or whole folders into the Media Pool.

  Try: “Import everything in the /Volumes/Card01 folder into the Media Pool”

  Write · media_storage

• Lists a bin's clips and runs transcription or slate analysis on it

  Lists the clips and sub-bins in a Media Pool folder, exports it, and runs Resolve's transcription, audio classification and slate detection on everything in it.

  Try: “Transcribe every clip in the Interviews bin”

  Write · folder

• Reads and edits a clip's metadata, properties and proxies

  Reads or changes one clip's metadata, properties, marks and clip color, and links or unlinks proxy media for it.

  Try: “Set the scene and take metadata on this clip to 12 and 3”

  Write · media_pool_item

• Changes a clip on the timeline: size, position, speed, keyframes

  Reads and sets a timeline clip's transform, crop, opacity, speed, audio volume and keyframes, plus multicam and other clip properties.

  Try: “Slow the second clip on video track 1 to 50% with optical flow”

  Write · timeline_item

• Adds, finds and removes markers on the timeline and moves the playhead

  Adds, lists and deletes timeline markers and moves the playhead to a timecode.

  Try: “Add a red marker named 'Fix audio' at 01:02:10:00”

  Delete · timeline_markers

• Adds markers, flags and clip colors to clips on the timeline

  Adds, reads and removes markers, flags and clip colors on individual clips in the timeline.

  Try: “Flag every clip on track 2 that has no audio in green”

  Delete · timeline_item_markers

• Adds markers and flags to clips in the Media Pool

  Adds, reads and removes markers and flags on Media Pool clips, including markers that carry custom notes.

  Try: “Mark the clap in each of these clips with a blue marker”

  Delete · media_pool_item_markers

• Captures a frame from the timeline so the assistant can see it

  Grabs a still of what Resolve shows at a timecode so the assistant can check framing, titles, a grade or a cut by looking at it.

  Try: “Show me the frame at 00:00:42:00 so we can check the title placement”

  Files · timeline_frame

• Sets up render jobs, checks formats and starts or stops renders

  Adds and removes render jobs, checks which formats and codecs work, applies render settings, starts or stops rendering and checks the output.

  Try: “Build a ProRes 422 HQ render job for this timeline and start it”

  Delete · render

• Grades clips: copies grades, versions, LUTs and color matching

  Works on a clip's color grade: snapshots and versions, copies a grade to other clips, applies LUTs and DRX grades, and matches clips to a hero shot after you confirm.

  Try: “Copy this clip's grade to every clip from camera B”

  Delete · timeline_item_color

• Reads and edits color nodes on a clip, timeline or color group

  Reads node counts, LUTs and cache settings on a grade's node graph and sets LUTs, enables or disables nodes, or applies a saved grade.

  Try: “Put the Rec709 LUT on node 2 of this clip”

  Write · graph

• Lists color groups and the clips in each

  Lists color groups, renames them, and shows which clips belong to each and how many nodes their group grades have.

  Try: “Which clips are in the 'Exterior Day' color group?”

  Write · color_group

• Manages Gallery albums for stills and PowerGrades

  Lists, names, picks and creates Gallery still albums and PowerGrade albums.

  Try: “Create a new still album called 'Client looks'”

  Write · gallery

• Grabs, imports, exports and labels Gallery stills

  Grabs stills from the viewer, imports and exports still files, labels them and removes them from an album.

  Try: “Grab a still of every clip and export them to my Desktop as JPGs”

  Delete · gallery_stills

• Analyzes footage: transcripts, silence, slates, sync and shot notes

  Analyzes clips, bins or a whole project without touching the source files: transcription, silence and slate detection, visual notes, and then writes summaries and markers back into Resolve.

  Try: “Analyze the Interviews bin and add markers wherever someone says the product name”

  Runs code · media_analysis

• Runs Resolve's AI tools on the timeline, like auto subtitles

  Creates subtitles from the audio, lists and applies subtitle and title presets, and runs other Resolve AI analysis on the current timeline.

  Try: “Create English subtitles for this timeline from the dialogue”

  Write · timeline_ai

• Plans and runs assembly, tighten and swap edits from analysis

  Proposes an assembly cut, tighter cuts or shot swaps from the media analysis, explains each choice, and only applies the plan after you confirm.

  Try: “Plan a tighter version of this interview cut and show me what you would remove”

  Write · edit_engine

• Shows timeline backups and rolls back changes

  Lists the timeline copies saved before each risky change and restores one if you want to undo.

  Try: “Undo your last change and restore the timeline from before it”

  Write · timeline_versioning

• Adds, imports and exports Fusion compositions on a clip

  Adds, lists, loads, imports, exports and deletes Fusion compositions attached to a timeline clip.

  Try: “Add a Fusion comp to the first clip on track 1”

  Delete · timeline_item_fusion

• Builds Fusion node graphs: adds tools, sets inputs, connects nodes

  Inspects a Fusion composition, adds tools such as Text+, sets their inputs and connects nodes, with checks that the connections are valid.

  Try: “Add a Text+ title that says 'Chapter 1' to this clip's Fusion comp”

  Delete · fusion_comp

• Manages alternate takes on a timeline clip

  Adds takes to a clip, lists them, switches the selected take, deletes takes or finalizes one.

  Try: “Add take 4 of this shot as an alternate take and select it”

  Delete · timeline_item_takes

• Reads and changes project settings like frame rate and color

  Reads every project setting or one by name, changes settings, renames the project and loads settings presets. Some settings Resolve does not let it change.

  Try: “What is this project's timeline frame rate and color science?”

  Write · project_settings

• Moves between and manages folders in the Project Manager

  Lists, opens, creates and deletes folders in the Project Manager and moves up to the parent or root folder.

  Try: “Create a folder called '2026 Clients' in the Project Manager”

  Delete · project_manager_folders

• Shows and switches project databases

  Shows the current project database, lists available ones and switches to another.

  Try: “Which project database am I on right now?”

  Write · project_manager_database

• Creates, loads and restores Blackmagic Cloud projects

  Creates, loads, imports and restores cloud projects. Needs Blackmagic Cloud set up.

  Try: “Load the cloud project called 'Series Ep 3'”

  Write · project_manager_cloud

• Imports and exports render and burn-in presets

  Imports, exports, lists and deletes render presets and burn-in presets as files.

  Try: “Export my YouTube 4K render preset to a file I can share”

  Delete · render_presets

• Saves, loads and shares Resolve window layouts

  Lists, saves, loads, updates, imports, exports and deletes UI layout presets.

  Try: “Save the current window layout as 'Grading'”

  Delete · layout_presets

• Finds, installs and removes LUT files

  Lists every LUT Resolve can see and installs or removes LUT files in Resolve's LUT folder.

  Try: “Which LUTs do I have for Sony S-Log3?”

  Delete · lut

• Writes and installs DCTL color shaders and ACES transforms

  Creates, installs and removes DCTL files and ACES transforms so they show up in Resolve's LUT and effects lists.

  Try: “Install this DCTL and make Resolve pick it up”

  Delete · dctl

• Writes and installs Fusion Fuse plugins

  Creates, installs, edits and removes Fusion Fuse plugins. A new Fuse needs a Resolve restart before it appears.

  Try: “Write a simple Fuse that adds film grain and install it”

  Delete · fuse_plugin

• Writes and installs scripts for Resolve's Scripts menu

  Creates, installs and removes Lua or Python scripts that appear under Workspace, Scripts in Resolve.

  Try: “Install a script on the Edit page that exports all markers to a CSV”

  Delete · script_plugin

• Used by the assistant behind the scenes

  Launches Resolve, switches pages and checks the connection

  Starts or reconnects to Resolve, switches pages, reports the version and whether it is Studio, and checks background jobs. The assistant calls it when it cannot reach Resolve.

  Write · resolve_control

• Reads built-in editing, color and audio guidance before acting

  Gives the assistant the project's own editing, color, audio and workflow guidance so it checks known traps before a creative or risky change.

  Read · knowledge

• Changes the server's own defaults, like safe mode and update checks

  Reads and changes the server's settings: analysis defaults, update checks and safety options such as safe mode and confirmation tokens.

  Try: “Turn on safe mode for risky deletes”

  Write · setup

Watch out for

• It can delete projects, clips and markers

  Deletes ask for confirmation by default. Turn on safe mode to block the riskiest ones, and back up your project database first. github.com

• It can install scripts, DCTLs and Fuses

  Anything it installs runs with your own access to disk and network. Only approve installs you asked for. github.com

• The free-version workaround can stop working

  The author says Blackmagic could close it at any update, and on Resolve 21.1 free it no longer loads. github.com

• A different project uses the same PyPI name

  pip install davinci-resolve-mcp installs someone else's server. Use the npx setup command or the GitHub repo. pypi.org

• Camera original files stay untouched

  Analysis writes reports to separate folders and metadata to the Resolve project. It changes source media only if you ask for exactly that. github.com

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