DaVinci Resolve MCP Server (Tooflex)

Solves Setting up projects, timelines, markers, grades and renders in Resolve Studio by asking

Works with
DaVinci Resolve
Setup
Medium setup
Price
Free
Resolve edition
Studio only
Type
MCP server

View on GitHub → How to set it up

Helps with batch render and export, rename, sort and find footage

Ideas to try

Ideas to try

These are our ideas, not reports from real users. We haven't found a public example of someone using this tool yet. Know one?

  • Ask the agent to check a timeline against the client's delivery spec before you render
  • Have it make the 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 versions from one master and name the files the way the client wants
  • Have the agent sort a multi day shoot into one bin and one sequence per day based on clip dates

What it does

Local MCP server with 32 tools and 6 read-only resources for Resolve projects, timelines, media, Fusion, color, audio, playback and rendering. Example asks include creating a project, importing clips into a new timeline, adding markers and saving a grade as a still.

How to set it up

  1. Install Resolve Studio 18+ and set Preferences > System > General > External scripting using to Local.
  2. Install 64-bit Python 3.10 or 3.11.
  3. Clone the repo, create a virtual environment and run pip install -e . as the README shows.
  4. Start it with run_server.ps1 on Windows or the davinci-resolve-mcp command on macOS.
  5. Add it to Claude Desktop or another MCP client and ask it to add a marker to test.

This is a plain English summary of the project's own instructions. Commands and versions change, so always follow the current README at the source link

Safety notes

  • The free edition of Resolve does not expose the external scripting connection, so the server stays disconnected there.
  • On Windows use a regular python.org Python and the run_server.ps1 launcher; the README warns uv managed Python builds can crash Resolve's fusionscript.dll.
  • No license file was found on GitHub, so reuse terms are unknown.
  • Runs locally; no API key needed for core features.

General rule: open a duplicate of your project before letting any agent make changes, and read what a script does before approving it

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