Cutting Room Now Available on macOS

Nick Valencia — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:49:16 +0000

Cutting Room AI now runs on macOS. If you edit in DaVinci Resolve Studio on a Mac, you can control your timeline with plain English.

What It Does
You type something like "set opacity to 50% on the third clip" or "add markers at every cut point on track 1" — and it happens. No scripting knowledge required. No copy-pasting code from forums. Describe what you want, confirm, done.

It connects to your running Resolve instance and executes operations against your live timeline in real time.

Why I Built It
I kept running into the same repetitive timeline tasks — batch property changes, organizing clips, setting up renders with specific settings. Resolve's scripting API can do all of this, but writing Python scripts for every little thing breaks your creative flow.

So I built a layer on top: natural language in, timeline changes out. The AI understands Resolve's API and your current timeline state, generates the right operations, and runs them.

What's New
The Mac version is the same app, same capabilities — just built natively for macOS. Signed and notarized, so it opens cleanly without Gatekeeper friction.

What It Can Do (v1)
Clip properties: opacity, zoom, pan, tilt, rotation, flip, crop, composite mode
Track operations: add, delete, enable/disable, lock, rename
Markers: add, delete, list, color-code
Clip organization: colors, flags
Timeline navigation: jump to timecode, switch pages
Media pool: list clips, create bins and timelines
Rendering: configure settings, add jobs, start/stop renders
Batch operations across entire tracks

Requirements
DaVinci Resolve Studio (external scripting requires the paid version)
Claude API key from Anthropic (~$0.01 per command)
macOS 12+ or Windows 10+

Get It:

Personal Site - https://nickvalenciatech.com
Gumroad — https://nickvalenciatech.gumroad.com/l/cuttingroomai

$39 one-time purchase, both platforms included. You bring your own API key.

Built by a video editor who got tired of the gap between "I know what I want to do" and "now I have to figure out how to script it."

NLP Video Editing Copilot

Nick Valencia — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:17:46 +0000

Hey y'all!
I'm very excited to announce the launch of Cutting Room AI, a natural language video editing copilot. Here's what it is...

Cutting Room AI is a standalone Windows desktop app that lets DaVinci Resolve Studio users control their timeline with plain English. Type what you want — "set opacity to 50% on all clips on track 2" or "add a red marker at the current timecode" — and the AI generates and executes the scripting API calls against your live Resolve session. No scripting knowledge required.

Key Features

Natural language commands executed against your live DaVinci Resolve timeline

Clip properties: opacity, zoom, pan, rotation, crop, composite mode, retime

Track operations: add, delete, enable/disable, lock, rename
Markers, clip colors, flags, media pool queries, and rendering control

Sandboxed script execution with AST-level validation and restricted builtins

Prompt library with pre-written commands to get started fast

Your feedback on the product will be greatly valued and appreciated!

https://nickvalenciatech.com/apps/cutting-room-ai

Forem: Nick Valencia

Cutting Room Now Available on macOS

NLP Video Editing Copilot