Ask for a look, a change in plain words, or a match to a reference image. Made grades the clip and adds it as a new color version, then Claude checks the frame and adjusts. Your original grade stays one click away.
Match this clip to sunset.jpg on my desktop.
resolve_statusDone“Coffee Spot”, Timeline 1. A001_C003.mov is under the playhead: 1 node, Version 1.
resolve_get_frameDoneThe frame at 01:00:02:12, as it looks now.
resolve_gradereference_path: ~/Desktop/sunset.jpgDoneAdded “Made · Match sunset” with a Made LUT on node 01. Version 1 is untouched.
Done. It’s brighter, with softer contrast and lifted blacks, blue in the shadows and warm gold in the midtones and highlights, like the still. Say the word and I’ll switch back to Version 1.
LUT: Made/match-sunset-3f9a1c2b.cube
A match to a reference and two looks, from the same engine that makes the plugin’s LUTs. The line sweeps between the original and the grade.
Graded by Made’s engine in the browser, original on the left of the line. The plugin puts the same grade on your clip in Resolve as a LUT.
Your assistant does the colorist’s part in words. Made does the math and hands Resolve the result in a form it can’t lose track of.
Name a look, say what to change in plain words, or point at a reference image. Your assistant looks at the frame first, and can preview an idea before it touches your project.
Made builds the grade and adds it to the clip as a new color version, with the grade as a LUT on node 1. On a clip you’ve already graded, it goes after your nodes instead.
The clip’s other versions aren’t touched. Switch back from the clip’s Local Versions menu, or ask your assistant to go back to the original.
Resolve’s scripting can’t add nodes or set primaries, so Made’s grade arrives as one LUT in its own version. It carries balance, contrast, saturation, the color wheels and skin protection. Film grain, halation, bloom and the other textures aren’t in a LUT, so add those with Resolve’s own effects.
Download the plugin, run its installer, and add Made to your AI app. The installer prints every line below with your own paths.
One folder with the two Resolve scripts, the MCP server and an installer. Keep it somewhere permanent, like Documents.
It copies the scripts into Resolve, checks Made can write its LUT folder, and prints the setup for your AI app with your paths filled in.
Studio: turn on external scripting. Free, 21.0 or earlier: run Made Bridge from the Scripts menu each session.
Claude Desktop runs the Made server on your computer. Add it to its config file once.
In Claude Desktop, open Settings, then Developer, then Edit Config.
Merge this into claude_desktop_config.json, with the paths install.py printed:
Match sunset.jpg
{
"mcpServers": {
"made-resolve": {
"command": "/usr/bin/python3",
"args": [
"/Users/you/Documents/Made for DaVinci Resolve/made_resolve_mcp.py"
]
}
}
}Restart Claude Desktop, open Resolve with a clip on the timeline, and ask for a grade.
One command adds Made for every project. install.py prints it with your paths.
Run this in a terminal:
claude mcp add --scope user made-resolve -- "/usr/bin/python3" "/Users/you/Documents/Made for DaVinci Resolve/made_resolve_mcp.py"Start Claude Code and ask it to grade the clip under Resolve’s playhead.
Cursor reads the same server block from its MCP settings.
Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json (Cursor Settings, then MCP, then Add new global MCP server).
Add the made-resolve server, with the paths install.py printed:
{
"mcpServers": {
"made-resolve": {
"command": "/usr/bin/python3",
"args": [
"/Users/you/Documents/Made for DaVinci Resolve/made_resolve_mcp.py"
]
}
}
}Ask Cursor’s agent for a grade while Resolve is open.
The paths are examples. install.py prints these with your Python and your folder, and on Windows the command is the full path to python.exe.
Blackmagic keeps scripting from outside Resolve for Studio. The free version still gets Made’s grades, from a menu script.
Grade in your browser, click LUT, then run Workspace › Scripts › Made - Apply latest grade. The newest LUT from your Downloads goes on the clip as a new version. No assistant needed.
Turn on external scripting once and your assistant grades, looks at the frame, and adjusts, with nothing to run inside Resolve.
Nothing to buy from Made. Grades are built online; your footage stays on your computer.
Free and Studio, what changes in your project, and what leaves your computer.
Not yet. It follows Blackmagic’s scripting documentation and published measurements of how Resolve’s scripting behaves, and it passes tests against a simulated Resolve, but it hasn’t run in DaVinci Resolve itself. If something doesn’t work, tell us at support@made.app.
Up to 21.0, yes: Made - Apply latest grade puts your newest Made LUT on the clip, and Made Bridge gives your assistant live control. Resolve 21.1 moved Python scripting to Studio, so on free 21.1 and later the scripts can’t run; you can still download the LUT from Made’s Color Grading tool and put it on a node yourself.
Each grade is a new local color version on the clip, named like “Made · Teal & orange”, with the grade as a LUT on one node. The clip’s other versions, including its original, aren’t touched, and Made never deletes a version you made. The LUT files go in a Made folder inside Resolve’s LUT folder.
Resolve’s scripting can’t add nodes or set primaries. It can add a color version and put a LUT on a node, so that’s how the grade arrives. The LUT carries balance, contrast, saturation, the color wheels and skin protection. Grain, halation, bloom, haze, softness and vignette aren’t part of a LUT.
Yes. It can look at the frame under the playhead before it grades, and every grade returns the new frame so it can check the result and adjust. It can also preview an idea without changing your project.
No. Looks and plain-word changes send only the settings. Matching a reference or previewing sends one small still of the current frame. Your footage and project stay on your computer.
The plugin does a fixed list of things: read the project, export the frame, add a graded version, switch versions and import media. It can’t run code. Made Bridge only listens on your own computer, with a random token, and turns itself off after an hour without requests.
Resolve only applies a LUT from a script when the file is in its main LUT folder. Made writes its LUTs to a Made folder there. If that folder belongs to an administrator, the installer and the error message give you the one command that lets Made use it.
The plugin and Made’s grading are free, with no account needed.
Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and other apps that run local MCP servers. The installer prints the setup for each.
Ask for a look, a change or a match. Made adds it as a new version, and your original is one click away.