Drive DaVinci Resolve from Claude Code, including multicam podcast cuts

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Any Resolve operation from Claude Code: media pool, timelines, markers, subtitle tracks, render presets, project settings, through the Resolve MCP and scripting API; plus multi-camera, multi-mic podcast editing with speaker detection and cutaways.

Kit

video-offline-tools

You need

Account	Why	Free or paid	Plan
DaVinci Resolve Studio	The NLE for long-form and podcast cuts. Claude drives it through the Resolve scripting API and the davinci-resolve MCP: additive plates on V2+, offline titles, OGraf native titles, exports.	Paid	Studio (295 USD one-time) is required: the free version has no external scripting, no OGraf loader and no hardware encode options used here. Version 21.1 or newer.
ffmpeg + ffprobe	Every cut, mux, loudness pass, proxy, contact sheet and platform encode. The delivery encoder uses h264_videotoolbox on Apple Silicon.	Free	Free (Homebrew build includes VideoToolbox).

What you bring

Your DaVinci Resolve Studio licence
Your raw footage, on folder paths that do not move

The steps

Install the MCP server and take the lock
Learn what the API can and cannot do, then work additively
Restructure only into a NEW timeline
Captions and subtitles
Renders leave the Deliver page as they found it
Podcast lane: topology, sync, who is speaking, the cut

Get the full playbook

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Part of: Install your video editing suite