Rename, sort and find footage

The problem: Hours of clips with names like C0042.MP4 and no idea where the good shot is

These tools sort clips into bins, add metadata, and let you search footage by what is in the shot or what someone said

See it work

What it looks like

Jumper's AI agents page: a local MCP server that lets Claude or Codex search your footage and build sequences Source: Screenshot of getjumper.io taken by AgentCut on 2026-10-17

Claude transcribing a clip inside Resolve Source: README of barckley75/resolve-claude-mcp

Watch it work

Video thumbnail: Introducing: Jumper. AI Search Engine For Your Footage on FCP and Premiere — Arthur Moore introduces Jumper, searching your footage from inside Final Cut and Premiere Arthur Moore · 2:42 Source: Arthur Moore on YouTube

Video thumbnail: Jumper walkthrough: Different ways to search (3/8) — Jumper's walkthrough of the different ways to search footage Jumper · 3:04 Source: Jumper on YouTube

Real people doing this

“Simple, repetitive tasks are fast as hell, but more complex work is still slow enough that you spend more time waiting and debugging than actually saving time”
Built a Claude chat for Resolve using samuelgursky's Resolve MCP server as his starting point. It was best at bulk jobs like flagging every clip shorter than 50 frames or splitting the media pool into timelines by file name, and slower than clicking for one off tasks

Poul Waligora, head of post production at ACN International, runs Wild Lion Media · Wild Lion Media blog, Apr 2026
“If you're an editor with a large collection of b-roll that you spend a lot of time trawling through, or a documentary maker with weeks worth of clips you've been meaning to watch and then log, this could be life changing”
Tested the Jumper app in Final Cut Pro and Premiere Pro on his own footage. Searching for St Pauls or Times Square found the right shots, and speech search found every interview where people said summit. This review is from before Jumper added its MCP server

Iain Anderson, reviewer, ProVideo Coalition · ProVideo Coalition, Nov 2024
Jason Levine builds a selects and storyboard workflow with Premiere and Claude Jason Levine · 2:25 Source: Jason Levine on YouTube
“talking to Claude means being very explicit, and it definitely takes getting used to”
Used Claude with Mike Chambers' MCP tools for Premiere (media-utils-mcp, which pairs with adb-mcp) to import a multi day shoot and sort it into bins, sequences and selects with markers, then compare the selects with the storyboard stills

Jason Levine, YouTube · YouTube, Aug 2025

7 tools that help

Jumper (MCP for footage search)

Solves Finding the exact shot or quote in hours of footage just by describing it

Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro

Easy setupPaid1 real example

DaVinci Resolve MCP Server (samuelgursky)

Solves Doing Resolve busywork by asking: sorting the media pool, render setup, markers and timeline cleanup

DaVinci Resolve

Easy setupFreeStudio only1 real example

adb-mcp (Photoshop + Premiere)

Solves Setting up and organizing Premiere projects and Photoshop files by asking Claude

Premiere Pro, Photoshop

Hard setupFree1 real example

EditAssist (MCP)

Solves Searching transcripts and footage and assembling rough cuts inside your editor

DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Final Cut Pro

Easy setupPrice unclear

DaVinci Resolve MCP (apvlv)

Solves Organizing projects, bins and timelines in Resolve from an AI chat

DaVinci Resolve

Medium setupFreeStudio only

Claude Video Vision

Solves Letting Claude actually watch a video so it can find moments and review cuts

FFmpeg

Easy setupFree

Demo clip

DaVinci Resolve AI Bridge MCP

Solves Editing the project you have open in Resolve, Free or Studio, from Claude, Codex or Cursor

DaVinci Resolve

Easy setupFreeFree + Studio

Ideas to try

These are our ideas, not reports from real users. Know one?

Have the agent sort a multi day shoot into one bin and one sequence per day based on clip dates
Rename clips inside your editor, not on disk, so relinking and conform still work

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