A Real DaVinci Resolve Panel

ScriptCut now has a panel that lives inside DaVinci Resolve Studio, so you can send clips over and pull your finished cut back already linked to the real media.

What it is

This is a dedicated panel for DaVinci Resolve Studio on Mac. You download it from Settings > App Integrations, in the NLE Plugins section, alongside the Premiere Pro panel. Once it's paired, ScriptCut and Resolve talk to each other directly instead of you moving files back and forth by hand.

The problem it removes

Normally, bringing a ScriptCut timeline into your editor means exporting a Timeline (XML) and then relinking every clip to your footage yourself. That works fine, but it's a chore, especially on a project with a lot of clips. The Resolve panel skips that step: the timeline opens already relinked to the actual media on your machine.

How it works

Say you're cutting a panel discussion. You transcribe the recording in ScriptCut, pick the best lines, arrange the story, and get it approved. Instead of exporting and manually relinking, you open the paired panel in Resolve and bring the cut straight in. Your selects show up trimmed to the frame, in order, with your footage attached, ready to finish grading and mixing.

If you're exporting subtitles from Resolve to bring word-level timecodes into ScriptCut, remember to set Maximum to 1 character per line, Lines to Single, and check Include Speaker Name. That's what gives ScriptCut a timecode for every word instead of whole sentences, which matters if you want tools like Remove Pauses to work cleanly.

Who it helps

This is for editors and agencies who already live in DaVinci Resolve Studio and want their ScriptCut selects to land in their timeline without extra relinking work. It's available on the Starter and ProAI plans, not on Free or the Social plan.

What about other editors

ScriptCut's Timeline (XML) export works in DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, and Avid Media Composer today, so all four are supported. The dedicated panel with automatic relinking currently exists for DaVinci Resolve Studio (Mac) and Premiere Pro 2025+ (Mac and Windows). A guided start-here workflow for Final Cut Pro and Avid is on the way; until then, those editors work great from Blank or Transcribe with an exported XML.

Ready to skip the manual relink? Pair the panel in ScriptCut.