Big Idea

The argument in one line.

A free MCP bridge lets Claude Code drive DaVinci Resolve directly, handling rough cuts, motion graphics, and LUT-based color grading autonomously, but it still can't add nodes or effects on the Color page, so hand-built grading detail stays manual.

Who This Is For

Read if. Skip if.

READ IF YOU ARE…

You're a content creator or solo video editor curious whether Claude Code can realistically take over parts of your edit.
You already use Claude Code and want a concrete, working setup rather than a vague pitch.
You're comfortable installing CLI tools (Homebrew, FFmpeg, Node, Python) and troubleshooting a terminal if something breaks.
You own or are willing to try DaVinci Resolve Studio, since the workflow leans on Resolve-specific automation.

SKIP IF…

You're not on DaVinci Resolve, this setup is Resolve-specific and doesn't transfer to Premiere or Final Cut.
You want a zero-setup tool, this requires installing and configuring two separate MCP servers plus CLI dependencies.

TL;DR

The full version, fast.

The DaVinci Resolve MCP lets Claude Code directly control DaVinci Resolve, so a single prompt can produce a rough cut, and a detailed prompt can produce full motion graphics using the free HyperFrames engine, which builds real animation by recording an animated web page instead of dropping in stock templates. On camera, a rough cut took 5:41, a vague full-auto graphics pass took 1:38:00, and the same graphics task redone with specific direction took about 20 minutes. Color grading with an existing LUT took about 2 minutes, but Claude can't add nodes or effects on the Color page, so extras like glow and grain still need manual work. The lesson: prompt specificity is the main lever on both speed and output quality.

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Chapters

Where the time goes.

00:00 – 00:54

01 · Intro

Cold open claiming Claude can now fully control DaVinci Resolve, with a preview of the rough cut, motion graphics, title cards, color grading, and exporting the setup will cover.

00:54 – 03:08

02 · What You Need First

Lays out the required stack: Claude Code (paid, $20-$100/mo), DaVinci Resolve or Resolve Studio ($30/mo or lifetime license), and the free open-source tools, HyperFrames, the DaVinci Resolve MCP, and CLI dependencies like FFmpeg and WhisperX.

03:08 – 03:55

03 · Get the Pre-Built Version

Pitches a paid Skool community folder with the whole system pre-built (skills, assets, docs, presets) for viewers who don't want to do the setup themselves.

03:55 – 06:24

04 · The Setup

Walks through creating a project folder, opening it in Claude Code, and pasting a single free prompt that installs the CLI tools and both MCPs, flagging Homebrew installation as the most likely snag.

06:24 – 07:42

05 · Rough Cut

Live demo: a single prompt asking Claude to build a rough cut of the creator's own intro footage, create the Resolve project, and pull context from a linked Notion page. Finished in 5 minutes 41 seconds.

07:42 – 10:18

06 · Motion Graphics: Full Auto

A vague, fully autonomous prompt to add motion graphics runs for 1 hour 38 minutes and produces visually impressive but off-target results, illustrating why unspecific prompts drift from intent.

10:18 – 14:02

07 · Motion Graphics: Take Two

A second, highly specific prompt (exact colors, frame rate, restyle instructions) redoes the same motion graphics task in about 20 minutes with a much closer result.

14:02 – 16:21

08 · Color Grading

Claude groups the intro clips and applies a supplied LUT file in about 2 minutes, including an automatic before/after comparison, then the creator manually tones down the LUT intensity.

16:21 – 17:26

09 · What the MCP Can't Do

Names the workflow's real limitation: the MCP can't add nodes or effects on the Color page, so glow, halation, and grain still require manual work, even though it can add nodes in Fusion.

17:26 – 19:02

10 · Final Thoughts

Wraps with a pitch for the paid Skool community's pre-built project folder and support calls, plus a sign-off encouraging viewers to try AI-assisted editing.

Atomic Insights

Lines worth screenshotting.

A DaVinci Resolve MCP bridge lets Claude Code build a rough cut, group and color-grade clips, and generate motion graphics inside a real edit session, not just suggest edits.
A single prompt turned raw footage into a finished rough cut in 5 minutes and 41 seconds, including creating the Resolve project itself.
Left unsupervised with 'take as much time as you need,' Claude spent 1 hour and 38 minutes building motion graphics that looked impressive but missed the creator's actual intent.
The same motion graphics task, redone with a highly specific prompt naming exact colors, frame rate, and style, finished in about 20 minutes with a closer result.
Vague instructions to an autonomous AI agent get filled in by the model's own judgment, treat it like a genie wish: leave out a detail and you may not like what you get back.
Grouping intro clips and applying a preset LUT took about 2 minutes and included an automatic before/after comparison render.
Claude can't reliably build a color grade from scratch since it doesn't have real color vision, feeding it an existing LUT file works far better than asking it to invent one.
The MCP can add nodes and effects inside Fusion but not on the Color page, so hand touches like glow, halation, and grain still require manual work in this setup.
HyperFrames builds motion graphics by animating a web page and recording that animation, which produces real motion design instead of assembling stock templates.
The only required paid tool is Claude Code itself, everything else in the stack, the DaVinci Resolve MCP, HyperFrames, and the CLI dependencies, is free and open source.
The $100/month Claude Max plan is recommended specifically to avoid hitting usage limits when running Opus on long, unsupervised graphics passes.
The entire local setup installs from a single copy-pasted prompt, most manual friction comes from installing Homebrew and CLI dependencies, not from configuring the MCPs themselves.

Takeaway

AI can now run a real edit, but only as well as you specify it

WHAT TO LEARN

Claude can genuinely drive DaVinci Resolve end to end, rough cuts, motion graphics, and LUT-based color grading, but the single biggest variable in the result is how specific the prompt is, not the tool itself.

02What You Need First

Claude Code is the one paid requirement; the $20/mo plan works but the $100/mo Max plan avoids hitting usage limits when running Opus on long autonomous passes.
DaVinci Resolve Studio costs $30/month or a lifetime license; the free version of Resolve is untested with the MCP but likely compatible.
Everything that actually drives the automation, the DaVinci Resolve MCP, the HyperFrames motion-graphics engine, and the CLI tooling, is free and open source.

04The Setup

The entire setup is a single prompt pasted into a fresh Claude Code project folder; it installs the CLI tools and both MCPs largely on its own.
Homebrew is the most common install snag and may need manual terminal commands and a password.
Once Resolve is open and the MCP connection tests successfully, the assistant is ready to run actual edits.

05Rough Cut

A single prompt asking Claude to build a rough cut from raw footage, create the Resolve project, and pull context from a linked doc produced a finished cut in 5 minutes 41 seconds.
Pointing the assistant at an external reference (a Notion page, in this case) lets it pull project-specific instructions instead of guessing from raw footage alone.

06Motion Graphics: Full Auto

Left fully unsupervised with a 'take as much time as you need' instruction, Claude spent 1 hour 38 minutes building motion graphics that looked impressive but drifted from the actual intent.
Vague prompts get vague-but-elaborate results; treat autonomous AI runs like a genie wish, every unstated detail gets filled in by the model's own judgment.

07Motion Graphics: Take Two

A second, highly specific prompt naming exact colors, frame rate, style references, and what to cut brought the same task down to about 20 minutes with a closer result.
Specificity is the real lever: more detail up front produces both a better match to intent and a shorter iteration loop.

08Color Grading

Handing Claude an existing LUT file and asking it to group clips and apply the grade took about 2 minutes, including an automatic before/after render.
The assistant can group clips and apply a LUT on its own, but can't reliably build a strong grade from scratch since it lacks real color vision, a preset LUT works better than asking it to invent one.

09What the MCP Can't Do

The DaVinci Resolve MCP cannot add nodes or effects on the Color page, so grade-level extras like glow, halation, or grain still have to be dragged in by hand.
The same MCP can add nodes and effects inside Fusion, an inconsistency worth knowing about before you're an hour into a session.

Glossary

Terms worth knowing.

MCP (Model Context Protocol): A connector standard that lets an AI assistant like Claude directly control a separate application, in this case DaVinci Resolve, instead of just describing what to do.
DaVinci Resolve MCP: A free, open-source MCP server that gives Claude Code direct control over DaVinci Resolve: creating projects, editing timelines, grouping clips, and applying color grades.
HyperFrames: A free, open-source toolkit Claude uses to build motion graphics by animating a web page and recording that animation, producing custom motion design rather than stock templates.
LUT (Look-Up Table): A preset file that remaps an image's colors to apply a specific look; feeding Claude an existing LUT produces a more reliable grade than asking it to build color grading from scratch.
Rough cut: A first-pass edit that assembles raw footage into a usable sequence, removing dead air and obvious mistakes, before any graphics or color work happens.
Color page vs. Fusion page: Two different work areas inside DaVinci Resolve; the MCP can add nodes and effects in Fusion but, as of this video, cannot add nodes or effects on the Color page.
DaVinci Resolve Studio: The paid tier of DaVinci Resolve ($30/month or a lifetime license), as opposed to the free version, which the creator believes but hasn't confirmed also works with the MCP.

Resources

Things they pointed at.

01:04toolClaude Code

01:30toolDaVinci Resolve Studio ↗

02:06toolDaVinci Resolve MCP ↗

02:12toolHyperFrames ↗

02:28linkFree starter prompt (Google Doc) ↗

03:28productAI Leverage Lab (Skool community) ↗

14:55toolLondon Rec 709 LUT

Quotables

Lines you could clip.

00:04

“Claude can now take full control over DaVinci Resolve and do edits completely done for you.”

clean, high-stakes claim with zero setup needed→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote

16:30

“The AI is like a genie. If you leave one little detail out, you gotta be careful what you wish for.”

quotable, generalizes past this specific tool→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote

10:55

“You just have to be very, very, very specific about what you prompt.”

punchy standalone lesson→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote

The Script

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Behold, Claude can now take full control over DaVinci Resolve and do edits completely done for you. This is big news for the unemployed as we now have more time to scroll Instagram Reels while Claude does all of our work for us.

No. But seriously, guys, this is an actually insanely powerful workflow that I'm about to show you.

And I promise it's gonna save you a ton of hours when it comes to manual editing labor, and it's gonna allow you to edit much higher quality videos. So whether you're a content creator or a video editor, buckle up, strap in because I'm about to put you on game for completely free. By the end of this video, I promise you're gonna have a fully functioning working AI video editing assistant that can do rough cuts, advanced motion graphics, title cards, color grading, exporting, and more.

So without further ado, let's get into the video.

Alright, guys. So I'm gonna cover everything that you need to set this up and get started. So there are a couple prerequisites.

Let's go over them right now. So, obviously, the first thing you that you're gonna need is Claude code. You can do the $20 a month plan.

I think Sonnet five will work, but you might run into limits. I would recommend being on the $100 a month plan so that you can use Opus five freely and not have to run into any limits.

So get on a Claude code plan. That's the first thing that we're gonna need. Now the next thing is gonna be obviously DaVinci Resolve.

I think the free version should work. If you wanna try it out with the free version, you can. I haven't tested it, but I'm pretty sure it will work with the MCP.

But if you clicked on this video, it probably means you already have DaVinci Resolve Studio anyways. And if you don't have Studio and you wanna try this out, it's only $30 a month.

You can actually sorta get a license from their Blackmagic Cloud website. If you do decide that you like DaVinci Resolve Studio and you decide you're gonna be using it for more than ten months, then, you know, it'd be cheaper to go with the $2.95 lifetime. But if you just wanna try out DaVinci Resolve Studio, again, $30 a month.

So that's all the paid stuff. Now here's what we're gonna be using for free because it's already, you know, just open source out on the Internet. So the first thing that we need is the Hyperframes GitHub repo.

This is the engine that allows Claude to create motion graphics. Next thing we're gonna need is the DaVinci Resolve MCP. Again, this is a free open source repo on GitHub that allows Claude to connect to DaVinci Resolve and actually control it.

And then the third thing is we're just gonna need, again, some more free open source tools like WhisperX, a bunch of CLI tools like Homebrew, FFmpeg, UV, Node, Python. This is just basic coding stuff that Claude needs to be able to run, you know, this entire video editing system.

So lucky for you guys, I have created a completely free prompt that I'm gonna give you guys link in the description. If you just go down in the description and click that free prompt and have that in hand ready to go, then that covers all of this open source free stuff.

So you don't need to worry about it. It'll install everything for you or just walk you through installing it. So the free prompt will be linked in the description as well as probably a link to where you can go to get that $30 a month license to try out DaVinci Resolve Studio.

Now if you're someone who values your time and you don't wanna spend the time and hours and work to set all this stuff up with all the blah blah blah, and you want a folder of files that is already, like, set and ready to go with all of these skills and all of these assets, docs, packaging, presets, workflows, and all this stuff.

This is all included in my school community and that'll be the first link down in the description below. If you join my school, you can skip the tutorial and just go straight into use cases and get started right away. And I also host group calls twice a week so I can hop on live and you can speak to me, and I will help you out with your problem.

So you can join the school if you wanna skip all this busy work. But for those of you that are doing this for free, just have this free prompt that's linked in the description.

Have that ready to go, and we're gonna move into the setup now. I'll see you there. Alright, guys.

Let's get into the free setup guide. So the first thing that we wanna do is open up Finder. If you're on Windows, that's gonna be your file explorer.

You just wanna open up your files right here. I already have a projects folder set up. But if you want to set up a projects folder to house all of your Claude code projects, then what you can do is click view and then you can click this thing right here that says show path bar and that's going to show you the path back to your user folder.

And in here you can click to create a new folder and call it projects. Then you can take that projects folder and drag it to your sidebar so it's easily accessible. I already have this set up and as you can see I have a lot of Claude code projects already made.

So now that we're in here, we're gonna click to create a new folder. We're gonna call this Claude Resolve Editor.

Something like that is fine. Once you have that folder created, then we're gonna go back into Claude code and we're gonna click this little folder thing right here. We're gonna click open folder and find that folder that you just created.

Click that. Click open. Now we are in the correct project folder.

Now we can take this free prompt. Just command a, command c, copy everything, go back to ClaudeCode, paste in that free prompt, hit enter, and then we're ready to go.

So it's gonna install all the CLI tools, it's gonna install the MCP. It already has both the links to the, uh, DaVinci Resolve MCP and the HyperFrames MCP, so that's all taken care of. It'll install all of that, like, pretty much automatically.

The one thing that you might need if you've if you're new to Clog code, you'll probably need to install Homebrew, which that might require you entering some commands in a terminal and entering your password. You just wanna make sure that Homebrew is installed.

Ask if you get confused, just ask chat. Be like, yo.

I don't know what to do. Explain this to me like I'm a 12 year old. Just walk me through this so that I can get this done and everything set up.

Once it gets done though, you open up DaVinci Resolve, you test the connection, and it's ready to go, then you're pretty much good to go. You just might need to chat back and forth and get some things installed like homebrew, etcetera, etcetera. And this is going to give you the basic functionality.

Now if you join my school community and you downloaded the folder from right here in this tab in the classroom section, then you should be good to go already. Like, it comes with a lot of the basically, everything's already built out.

So, you know, you're pretty much good to go there. But, yeah, give this a couple things. Install Homebrew.

Get everything installed. Once it's ready, you're ready to move on to the next section.

Alright, guys. For the first use case, we're gonna be doing a rough cut. Now, I am actually building the video that you're watching right now.

So I'm gonna build the rough cut of the intro that you just watched in this YouTube video. So let's start. I'm in the video editor project folder.

I'm on Opus five, which is fine. I think Sonnet will work fine too.

But anyways, let's get on with the prompt prompting. Yo. What up?

I just recorded the intro to a new YouTube video in my downloads folder. So I want you to do the rough cut and set it up in DaVinci Resolve, create a new project for it with the name and everything, and also check Notion for the correct page.

It's the one about Claude and DaVinci Resolve. That's the new YouTube video project that we're working on. And let me know when you're done.

Send off that prompt. And now I'm going to time how long this takes. Time starting now.

Done. There we go. Pause.

Timer. And that took exactly five minutes and forty one seconds.

And as you can see, it built the entire rough cut in DaVinci Resolve for us. Pretty good and pretty straightforward.

So let's move on to the next use case, shall we?

Alright, guys. Let's move on to use case number two, which is motion graphics. So I have this rough cut of my YouTube intro right here, and we're gonna put some motion graphics on top.

So I'm gonna open a new chat. And for this, I'm using Opus five on high, and I'm just going to prompt something like this.

Hey. So for the current YouTube intro that I have opened on my DaVinci Resolve timeline, I want you to do a graphics pass. So first, like, plant like, you know, read the whole script of the intro or see what's on the timeline, and then plan out what we should do for the graphics.

Think really, really hard about it to create, like, actually good graphics that are really on point. And then what I want you to do is create them, create all of them, put them on the timeline. And then and then after that, I want you to do a second pass over each of the graphics elements.

So for each of them, I want you to go one by one through them and, like, adjust them and refine them so that they're absolutely dialed in. They're placed correctly.

Nothing is off. Right? None of the everything all the effects are working correctly.

I need them absolutely dialed in, and I want you to take your time with each of the graphics one by one after you do the initial pass. So go ahead and do that now. Take as much time as you need.

Okay, guys. So I'm gonna send off that voice prompt right now, and I'm gonna start a timer and come back when this is done. Alright, guys.

I'm back. And that took a full one hour and thirty eight minutes.

Almost one hour and forty eight minutes. But I think it's because I was like, yo, like, take as much time as you need and dial it in. And it did do a very impressive job.

Like, it really went to town, and I'll actually play the clip for you right now. Behold, Claude can now take full control over DaVinci Resolve and do edits completely done for you.

This is big news for the unemployed as we now have more time to scroll Instagram reels while Claude does all of our work for us. No. But seriously guys, this is an actually insanely powerful workflow that I'm about to show you.

Okay, guys. So that was very, very impressive. Like, obviously, it did a really good job, especially for just being fully autonomous.

Like, I didn't even give it any directions, and it was able to come up with some really amazing graphics. It's not even on Fable. It was on Opus.

So pretty amazing. And if you want, like, super intense, like, crazy motion graphics like that, then definitely you could leave it overnight, you know, or something like that. Especially if you have a longer thing you're trying to edit.

So that's useful. It wasn't exactly what I was actually looking for. And that reminds me, this is a good piece of knowledge for you to know is that you gotta be very specific about what you want.

Right? The AI is like a genie. Like, if you leave one little detail out, like, you gotta be careful what you wish for.

Right? So, um, you just have to be very, very, very specific about what you prompt.

So So I'm gonna actually try and redo this right now. Actually, for the first two clips, can leave like, we don't need any graphics for that because I'm gonna do that manually. I'll probably get some stock footage and do some, very light, like, meme editing for the first two clips.

So everything else is pretty much good. I do actually like the full frame like full frame with the background and everything for the very last c two graphic.

All that we really need to change here is look, let's just change the style to the more like modern UI style.

We can keep it 12 frames per second to get that, like, posterized time effect. But I definitely do want a more like modern, like, glow, like, tech, you know, like, UI look.

Maybe, like, a dark blue color palette. And we can use our dark blue grid background that we already have.

So everything else, you can basically just, like, restyle. You can get rid of the the graphics on the first two clips, which is, like, what you spent the most time on. We actually don't need that at all.

Just kinda, like, restyle everything else. Everything else looks fine. And then when I say, like, oh, for free, like, definitely that should be like the free should be like glowing green or something.

You know? And then your own personal AI video editor, that doesn't need to be full frame.

Like, that can just be like a graphic that comes up. It's like Claude mascot, maybe he's glowing and, like, controlling a timeline or something.

But that doesn't need me to be a full frame. It's just to be overlay that comes over me.

Try again and look. I want this to be, like, thirty minutes max.

Okay? The last one took like a whole hour and forty minutes. I just want this to be like thirty minutes, get it done, put on the timeline so I can review it.

Go ahead and do that now. Alright, guys. So we're gonna send off that prompt.

Send that off. And again, I'm gonna time this, And this is gonna be a little bit more accurate of a timer for, like, how long it takes to do the graphics.

It really depends on what you want. If you want it to take more time and spend longer on it, you totally can and just leave it, like, overnight or something like that. But if you're like working on it like this, then you definitely want like faster iterations.

And so this should be fine. So we're gonna time it. I'll see you in a bit.

Alright. So that just got done and the timer lost the timer.

So I'm gonna have to check the time from when it started.

Okay. I like that a lot better. And so this is looking good actually.

Really, all we need to do is just kinda move move this stuff around. So we could just move this over here, kinda make it smaller, move it over here, etcetera, etcetera.

That's no biggie. But, yeah, I think this is a lot better. So much faster.

And this should show you how good it is at creating graphics autonomously. So, yeah, I'd say that we'll call this demo done. Alright.

Let's move on to the final use case.

Alright, guys. So for the final use case here, we're gonna have the AI help us out with some color grading. So I have this intro of the video right here, and I wanna color grade it.

So what I'm gonna do is go into Claude and hop into a new chat. Make sure that I'm in the video editor.

I'm in the correct folder. And I'm going to voice prompt. Yo, what's up?

I want to color grade the intro of my DaVinci Resolve project that I'm working on right now. And I already have a LUT that I want you to use.

So I'm gonna give that to you right now. The AI can actually build and color grade using LUTs that it builds itself. But it's really not that good at it since, you know, AI doesn't really have vision like that.

So let's just give it a preset LUT. And for this, I'm gonna go in my finder and I'm gonna search for the one that I typically like to use is London.

So I have this London Rec Seven Zero Nine Dot Cube. I'm just gonna copy this, copy the the file path, and then I'm just going to paste that in. So go ahead and color grade the intro of this video.

Toss on that LUT, please. Thank you.

Yeah. That's all I really need to say. What it's gonna do now is it's gonna group together all of the intro clips and color grade them for me.

Let's see how it does. Honestly, this is something that you could probably just do manually anyways. I mean, it doesn't really take that much time.

But I just wanna show you guys the capabilities of what this can do. You know, maybe if you toss on this prompt at the end of another big string of things that you're doing, you just wanna have it do it autonomously, that might be useful.

So I'll come back when it's done. So that just got finished. And that really only took, like, two minutes.

Two minutes. Very quick. So it did a good job.

Kinda it even, like, rendered everything and checked for us to make sure before it oh, it give us a comparison. Cool. If we go to the color view, it's you can see it grouped all of the clips together which is awesome.

So now we have all of our intro clips grouped. Okay. Very cool.

So it applied the LUT here and I wanna tone it down to 75. So I'm just gonna go key and then I can go key output gain and go point seven five and that like tones down the intensity of the LUT.

Okay. So one very important thing to note here guys is that it can do the grouping of the clips for you and it can apply a LUT to the clips all by itself. But it cannot add further nodes and effects.

So for example, if you wanted to add some glow, you're gonna have to drag that in yourself and do the you know blah blah blah. Unfortunately, the MCP currently is not capable of adding in more nodes and effects.

It can do that in fusion, you know, for effects like that. But, uh, in terms of color, it unfortunately cannot.

I don't know why it can add nodes and do things in fusion, but not in color. Kinda silly in my opinion. I feel like they should give it that capability.

Anyways, so next we're gonna be doing some manual hand tweaking and adjusting to add some more effects on top of this color grid.

Boom. That's so tough. Okay.

So before, after, before, after.

Nice. But as you can see, it helps to speed up our color grading process. So very cool.

And that's gonna be the last use case.

If you guys try to build this entire Claude video editor for yourself for free, you can do it. It's just gonna take a lot of hours and a lot of refining, a lot of fixing, a lot of errors and debugging and coding and stuff like that, which I already did the work of doing.

So if you want a custom built Claude project that already has all of this stuff in here that I already took the time to make with all of these skills and all of these assets, docs, packaging, presets, workflows, and all this stuff.

This is all included in my school community and you can download all of this right away. So you don't have to do any of the debugging or coding or customizing. It already comes like, locked in, pretty dialed, and will be able to edit your videos much, much better right off the bat.

So if you wanna get all these folders, files, assets for this Claude video editor project that I've been working on for the past, like, month and a half, then you can definitely join my school community and get the files for yourself. Not only that, but there's also a full walk through on how to install it and everything.

And you get the support of me and the community. I respond to everyone with a full Loom breakdown every single day. And I host group calls twice a week, once on, uh, Tuesday, once on Thursday.

I'm literally about to hop on right now and speak to all the members. So if you wanna speak to me one on one and get my one on one help, you could do that in the community, uh, right here.

But other than that, guys, that's gonna conclude this video. I really hope you guys enjoyed. I hope you got value out of this one, and happy editing.

I hope you use AI to help you edit faster and better. I'll see you in the next one. Peace.

The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

The creator opens by handing Claude full control of DaVinci Resolve, then proves it by editing this video's own intro that way. What follows is a live, timed walkthrough of what an AI video editor can and can't do yet.

Frameworks

Named ideas worth stealing.

01:04list

The Claude Video Editor Stack

Claude Code (paid, $20-$100/mo)
DaVinci Resolve or Resolve Studio (free or $30/mo)
HyperFrames (free, open source, motion graphics engine)
DaVinci Resolve MCP (free, open source, controls Resolve)
CLI tooling: Homebrew, FFmpeg, uv, Node, Python, WhisperX (free)

The full list of tools required to reproduce the setup, split into what actually costs money versus what's free and open source.

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