How to Send AI Cuts and Markers Straight to DaVinci Resolve

If you use DaVinci Resolve, you've probably watched Premiere users get plugin after plugin while Resolve waits in line. AI tools generate great timestamps, hook locations, and caption tracks — and then leave you to copy each number by hand into a timeline that lives in a completely separate app. The analysis is automated; the part where it reaches your edit is not.

The fix is a direct bridge between the tool doing the analysis and the NLE doing the editing, so the output lands on your timeline instead of in a list you have to transcribe.

The copy-paste-timestamp problem

Without a bridge, every AI result becomes manual data entry:

• You read a timestamp off the screen, switch to Resolve, scrub to that point, and drop a marker.
• You repeat that for every shorts moment, every B-roll suggestion, every engagement beat.
• One transposed digit sends you to the wrong frame, and you don't notice until you're already cutting.

For a single video that's tedious. Across a content schedule it's a real tax on your time, and it's exactly the kind of mechanical work the analysis was supposed to save you from.

How the bridge works

SmoothyDesktop includes a built-in plugin that connects directly to your NLE over a local connection. Nothing routes through the cloud — the app talks to Resolve running on the same machine, and what you generated in the Smoothy toolset gets written onto the timeline you already have open.

The result is one continuous workflow: analyze, then send. No manual transcription step in the middle.

What you can send to the timeline

The bridge isn't limited to a single type of marker. It carries the output of the tools you'd actually use:

• Shorts markers. The timestamps for your most clip-worthy moments land as markers, so you can jump straight to each one and cut.
• Multicam cuts. Speaker-detected camera switches come through as a cut you can refine, instead of switching angles by hand.
• Caption tracks. Word-level captions generated locally with Whisper drop in as a caption track, already aligned to the audio.

Each one arrives as something you can edit, not a flattened result. The tool does the detection; you keep control of the final cut.

Resolve and Premiere, the same workflow

If you've read about connecting SmoothyEdit to Adobe Premiere Pro, this is the same idea extended to DaVinci Resolve. The Smoothy suite treats both editors as first-class destinations, so the workflow you build doesn't depend on which NLE you've committed to. Switch projects, switch editors, and the bridge works the same way.

Getting started

The Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve bridge is part of SmoothyDesktop — the native app that runs the full Smoothy toolset locally and sends its output straight to your timeline. It's in active development and coming soon to the suite. See the SmoothyDesktop product page for the complete feature set, including local captions, silence removal, and hardware-accelerated export.