How to Use AI Assistants to Manage a DaVinci Resolve Project. (Claude, Claude Code, and ChatGPT Codex)

DaVinci Resolve Studio 21.1 now lets you connect AI assistants such as Claude, Claude Code, and ChatGPT Codex to your projects so you can use voice commands to get things done instead of manually performing repetitive operations. You can give your AI assistant instructions and let it interact with your Resolve project. It's still brand new, and the results aren't always perfect, but it's a great way to automate a lot of crappy, time-consuming tasks.

What can an AI assistant do in DaVinci Resolve?

Once you have connected an AI assistant, you can ask it to get to work on a set list of supported operations. Blackmagic says this includes analysing projects, organising media, changing project settings, batch rendering timelines, and handling other repetitive operations. These tools will have full control over the actions, so you need to be prepared for them to make major mistakes, so I would avoid using them on a timeline that you'd already done a lot of work on. Unless you have a good backup.

Note: Don't forget that giving AI assistants access to your content pretty much guarantees that they will be using anything and everything you are doing for training, etc.

Here's the complete list of things AI Assistants can do in DaVinci Resolve.

• Analyze projects
• Organize media
• Change project settings
• Create edits from source media
• Perform other project operations using natural-language instructions
• Batch render timelines
• Perform repetitive or tedious tasks
• Carry out render operations

Analyse a DaVinci Resolve project

• Instead of manually going through your timelines, media, and project structure, you can ask the assistant to examine the project and provide information about it.

This could be useful when working with a large project that contains a lot of media or multiple timelines. An AI assistant can help you understand what is in the project and identify information without requiring you to manually inspect everything.

This is probably the riskiest part of using an AI assistant since it is probably not going to understand the nuance of a lot of projects. So if you have really specific things you want to be included, it will probably miss them. Especially when you are making content that doesn't include people or speaking.

Organise your media

AI assistants can also help with media management. You can give the assistant instructions to organise media within your Resolve project rather than manually sorting everything yourself.

Of all the AI assistant features, this one is probably one of the better ones that has fewer issues with errors. It simply sorts things based on your command, and it generally does a decent job of putting things into good groups.

Change project settings

Instead of searching through all the different settings and menus yourself, you can tell your chosen assistant what you want to change. The assistant can then make the changes within the project. This is another simple thing that AI Assistants do a decent job of. However, you probably still want to double-check things the first few times you use it to make sure that it is understanding your voice commands correctly.

Batch render timelines

You can ask the assistant to batch render timelines instead of manually setting up each render operation. For example, you can give your assistant instructions to render multiple timelines for review. This is a pretty big time saver, but you should check your render settings and the final files to make sure everything has been processed properly. You don't want everything exported in H.265 if you planned to use H.264.