An AI rough cut you finish in DaVinci Resolve

To get an AI rough cut into DaVinci Resolve, let CoProd Premium edit your recordings, then export the cut as an editable timeline built on your original camera files. In Resolve, choose File → Import → Timeline and finish the color, sound and pacing there.

It suits technical explainers, product walkthroughs and training videos made from narrated screen recordings and talking-head takes, and YouTube videos made the same way. The rough cut arrives with the story already picked and the graphics already placed, so Resolve is where you polish rather than where you start.

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What the rough cut already contains

The story. Lines picked from what you actually said, with retakes, false starts and dead air removed. Each line keeps its take and exact source range.
The cut. Cuts and punch-ins between your takes, and your B-roll placed where the narration talks about what it shows, covering jump cuts where a matching shot exists.
Technical graphics. Architecture diagrams, request flows, code reveals, code diffs, terminal sessions and metric charts, plus layouts that keep you on screen beside them.
Sound. Your narration, music that ducks under your voice, and the natural sound of your B-roll on its own tracks, with its dips as keyframes you can move.
Captions. One or two burned-in emphasis captions per scene.

How to get it into Resolve

Start from footage. In CoProd Premium, choose New Project, then Start from footage, and drop in your screen recordings and camera takes together.
Let the story and the edit run. Hands-off is the default: the Producer checks the story drafted from your words, then plans and builds the edit. Tick Check the story before editing if you want to approve the story yourself first. With the offline writer, the story always waits for you.
Review the rough cut. Watch the cut in CoProd and revise it there if the story or a graphic is wrong; that is cheaper than fixing it in Resolve.
Choose Open in editor. CoProd writes a timeline file for your editor.
Import it into Resolve. In DaVinci Resolve, choose File → Import → Timeline and select the exported file. The free version of Resolve works.
Finish in Resolve. Grade, mix in Fairlight, adjust pacing, and add anything you want as an editable Resolve title.

With DaVinci Resolve Studio and its scripting enabled, CoProd can also render its own finishing presets through Resolve: H.264 Master, H.264 Narrative, ProRes 422 HQ or ProRes 422.

What arrives in the timeline

Your original camera files, linked into the timeline.
Every element as its own clip: your takes, B-roll, graphics, captions, narration and music.
Graphics and captions as rendered clips, not editable Resolve titles or Fusion compositions.
A 1080p timeline at 30 fps.

Final Cut Pro takes the same export, if you finish there instead. For the script-guided version of this workflow, see a Mac editor for your YouTube recordings.

How this differs from other timeline exports

Descript, Recut and TimeBolt also export timelines that DaVinci Resolve can import, mostly as cuts of your footage. The difference here is what is already in the cut when it arrives: a story picked from your own words, and technical graphics placed where the narration needs them.

What doesn’t transfer

There is no Premiere Pro XML, EDL or AAF export: Open in editor targets DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro. Graphics can’t be re-edited as motion graphics in Resolve; change them in CoProd and export again.

What you need

CoProd Premium on an Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 14 or later.
DaVinci Resolve, free or Studio. The finishing presets need Studio with scripting enabled.
Your own AI keys for story selection and AI direction. Paid AI usage is billed separately by those providers.

Product details checked against CoProd Premium 2026.54.0 on October 20, 2026.