davinci-resolve-mcp is an MCP server that lets AI assistants control DaVinci Resolve Studio through its scripting API, including editing, media organization, rendering, grading, and other project tasks. It is for users who want agents to operate Resolve and inspect media through a local control panel. The catalogue entries support agent workflows for this Resolve integration.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
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What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00097 | $0.02883 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00048 | $0.01442 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00577 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00288 |
Grade A, and why
resolve-rough-cut scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Resolve Rough Cut
Turns a folder of raw footage into an assembled, gapless timeline. The timeline is the deliverable, not a finished video.
For editorial craft (why a cut works) see docs/guides/editorial-decision-guide.md.
For the analysis layer see the resolve-media-analysis skill. This skill is the
assembly recipe and the traps between them.
The deliverable contract
Deliver an assembled timeline. Do not add titles, captions, text cards, effects, transitions, music, or grading unless explicitly asked. Editors who ask for a rough cut want shot selection and pacing; styling is theirs. Adding graphics is work that gets thrown away — and see the Fusion trap below for why it also silently fails.
Render an mp4 only to preview the cut, and say that is what it is.
Workflow
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Probe before importing.
ffprobeevery clip forr_frame_rate,avg_frame_rate, androtation. Two things routinely differ from what the filenames and Resolve suggest — see Verified traps. -
For a series, add a timeline to the existing project — don't create a new one. Check
project_manager listfirst. One project per series keeps the bins, analysed clips and settings in one place; one per episode scatters them. Only create a project for a genuinely new series. -
On a NEW project, set BOTH frame rates before any timeline exists.
timelineFrameRateis locked once a timeline is created — set it viaproject_manager safe_set_project_settings.timelinePlaybackFrameRatecannot be set through the API at all, so ask the user to set it in the UI now, as a setup step:Project Settings (gear, bottom-right) → Master Settings → Playback frame rate
Quote that path as written and do not extend it from memory — if the user cannot find it on their build, say you cannot see their screen and point at Blackmagic's manual rather than guessing a second location. Improvised UI directions are what issue #132 cost a user; see the retime entry in
resolve-editfor the rule.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 9d ago Changed · -1 lines 8c1cda947c19
- 11d ago First seen · 174 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 39c4a0ac70dc
resolve-rough-cut is a skill published in the GitHub repository samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp (2,622 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 2,883 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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