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The AI edited a real video end to end inside DaVinci Resolve

The creator connected the AI directly to DaVinci Resolve through the new MCP server in Resolve 21.1 and had it edit a real video by talking to it. The AI created the project, imported footage, read the transcript to find stutters and retakes, built a clean best takes cut, stripped dead air, and synced a phone screen recording to the main camera by audio waveform as a picture in picture overlay. The description notes some parts did not work on the first try.

How it works

  1. Connected the AI to DaVinci Resolve using the MCP server
  2. The AI created a new project and imported raw footage
  3. The AI read the full transcript and found stutters, retakes and repeated sentences
  4. Built a clean best takes cut and stripped dead air and pauses
  5. Synced a second phone recording by audio waveform matching
  6. Placed it as a picture in picture overlay on a second track

Why it’s worth knowing

The AI synced a second camera with no timecode or clapperboard by matching audio waveforms alone

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on youtube.com. See the original ↗

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