Color / Grade in the DaVinci Resolve MCP — grading, correcting, shot matching, developing looks, or applying/modifying LUTs, CDLs, DRX grades, or copied grades.
Conform / Interchange in the DaVinci Resolve MCP — importing/relinking editorial, checking a conform against a reference, repairing reversed/retimed subclips, tracing grades across a re-conform, or QCing a conformed timeline.
Delivery / Deliverable QC in the DaVinci Resolve MCP — preparing render jobs, validating render settings, QCing a finished render vs spec, building render manifests, expanding texted/textless/stems deliverables, verifying media ingest, or producing a provenance/episode report.
Timeline Edit in the DaVinci Resolve MCP — cutting, trimming, pacing, duplicating/moving clips, copying ranges, building variants, tightening a cut, or generating an editorial changelist.
Media Pool / Ingest in the DaVinci Resolve MCP — importing media, building multicam timelines, organizing/relinking clips, normalizing metadata, or verifying/inventorying a card before ingest.
This document gives AI assistants the context needed to use the DaVinci Resolve MCP server effectively. It covers the tool landscape, page prerequisites, common workflow patterns, error recovery, and known gotchas.
At most 3 mods per repository are shown here, and a mod shipped inside a plugin is left to that plugin's page — the rest are on their repository pages: