davinci-resolve-mcp 2.180.0 → 2.181.0

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,23 @@
 
 Release history for the DaVinci Resolve MCP Server. The latest release is summarized in the root README; older entries live here to keep the README focused.
 
+## What's New in v2.181.0 — E127: DRT timelines get their real names, and compounds their kind
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **`drt.parse` / `list_sequences` named a timeline after its first clip.**
+  A SeqContainer XML carries no timeline name — its first `<Name>` is the
+  first clip's — so Resolve's DRT export of a compound timeline listed
+  "cut_src.mp4" and "white_src.mp4" as sequences (measured on 19.1.3.7; the
+  export is a permanent fixture). The pool folder's `Sm2MpTimelineClip` and
+  `Sm2MpCompoundClip` embed the `Sm2Sequence` each container's `<Sequence>`
+  names; the parser now takes names and `kind` (`timeline` | `compound`) from
+  there, tags a media-less clip named after a compound as `compound`, and
+  `list_sequences` reports `kind` and `nestedIn` so a picker can demote the
+  compound containers (E57_IN nested in E57_OUT, nested in E57_NESTED). The
+  bundled media template's sequence now lists by its real name,
+  `MediaTemplate`, where it used to read as its clip `sample.mp4`.
+
 ## What's New in v2.180.0 — E126: the sequence picker knows a nested composition from a turnover
 
 ### Added

package/README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 English | [简体中文](README.zh-CN.md)
 
-[![Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-2.180.0-blue.svg)](https://github.com/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp/releases)
+[![Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-2.181.0-blue.svg)](https://github.com/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp/releases)
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package/README.zh-CN.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 [English](README.md) | 简体中文
 
-[![Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-2.180.0-blue.svg)](https://github.com/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp/releases)
+[![Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-2.181.0-blue.svg)](https://github.com/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp/releases)
 [![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/davinci-resolve-mcp.svg?label=npm&color=CB3837)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/davinci-resolve-mcp)
 [![API Coverage](https://img.shields.io/badge/API%20Coverage-100%25-brightgreen.svg)](docs/reference/api-coverage.md)
 [![Tools](https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP%20Tools-36%20(353%20full)-blue.svg)](#服务器模式)
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 [![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.10+-green.svg)](https://www.python.org/downloads/)
 [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
 
-> 本翻译对应 v2.180.0 版 README。如与英文原版有出入，以 [英文原版](README.md) 为准。
+> 本翻译对应 v2.181.0 版 README。如与英文原版有出入，以 [英文原版](README.md) 为准。
 
 一个 Model Context Protocol (MCP) 服务器，让 AI 助手通过官方脚本 API 控制 DaVinci Resolve Studio（达芬奇）。它提供完整的 API 覆盖，外加带护栏的工作流助手，涵盖剪辑、媒体池整理、渲染设置、审阅标记、调色、Fusion、Fairlight、项目生命周期任务、扩展开发，以及不碰源媒体的媒体分析。
 

package/docs/reference/api-limitations.md

@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ equivalent, blocking full automation.
 
 - **Object:** `MediaPool`
 - **Signature:** `(filePath.xml) -> Timeline`
-- **Behavior:** Resolve's FCP7 XML importer HONOURS a generatoritem's `fillcolor` parameter (measured on Studio 19.1.3.7, E110): a Premiere-shaped Color Matte (effectid Color, category Matte) and a Solid Color generatoritem, both with <red>/<green>/<blue>/<alpha> 0..255 values, imported as Solid Color items and rendered Y81 U90 V240 (red) and Y41 U240 V110 (blue) — exact BT.601 limited-range values for a 640x360 timeline. EXPORT_FCP_7_XML writes the fillcolor back (same 0..255 channels). EXPORT_DRT carries the colour as a 55-byte <EffectFiltersBA> on the Sm2TiGenerator: 8-byte header (version 2, length 47), a fixed 20-byte prefix, a flag byte, then big-endian uint16 A R G B (0xffff = full) plus a pad word, then a second, black colour record; only the ARGB words differed between the red and blue captures. The default generator has an EMPTY EffectFiltersBA. The same importer does NOT carry a TRANSITION's parameters: a `Dip to Color Dissolve` transitionitem with a white and with a red `color` parameter imported as `Dip To Color Dissolve` elements whose 37-byte EffectFiltersBA were byte-identical (defaults), and the transition rendered inert (luma flat through its window, the E66 law) — the dip colour stays GUI-only on 19.1.3.7 (measured, E111). The writer emits a Solid Color's colour as the FxPlug parameter `input_1` (effectid FxPlugWrapper:C18E8B62_…), not `fillcolor` — an authored EffectFiltersBA colour came back exactly (white, 128/64/191; E112). The OTIO writer CANNOT: EXPORT_OTIO emits a Solid Color as a Clip.2 named 'Solid Color' with a NULL media_reference, metadata {"Resolve_OTIO": {}} and a parameterless Transform effect — no colour anywhere (measured E117) — so only an XML re-export witnesses a generator colour (editorial.verify_roundtrip exportedFormat → generatorColourNotInExport). Such an OTIO export DOES re-conform through drt.assemble_from_interchange (E118): the media-less generator clips walk as black legs and the clip→generator fade renders 124→16 — black, the colour having been lost by the writer. COMPOUND CLIPS: EXPORT_OTIO nests a compound as a Stack.1 inside the track (its source_range = the trim window into the compound; nested compounds nest Stacks recursively — measured E120 on a depth-2 timeline), while EXPORT_FCP_7_XML flattens the compound to a single media-less clipitem named after it (no inner content). editorial.parse_interchange flattens the OTIO Stacks into record time (fromCompound on each cut).
+- **Behavior:** Resolve's FCP7 XML importer HONOURS a generatoritem's `fillcolor` parameter (measured on Studio 19.1.3.7, E110): a Premiere-shaped Color Matte (effectid Color, category Matte) and a Solid Color generatoritem, both with <red>/<green>/<blue>/<alpha> 0..255 values, imported as Solid Color items and rendered Y81 U90 V240 (red) and Y41 U240 V110 (blue) — exact BT.601 limited-range values for a 640x360 timeline. EXPORT_FCP_7_XML writes the fillcolor back (same 0..255 channels). EXPORT_DRT carries the colour as a 55-byte <EffectFiltersBA> on the Sm2TiGenerator: 8-byte header (version 2, length 47), a fixed 20-byte prefix, a flag byte, then big-endian uint16 A R G B (0xffff = full) plus a pad word, then a second, black colour record; only the ARGB words differed between the red and blue captures. The default generator has an EMPTY EffectFiltersBA. The same importer does NOT carry a TRANSITION's parameters: a `Dip to Color Dissolve` transitionitem with a white and with a red `color` parameter imported as `Dip To Color Dissolve` elements whose 37-byte EffectFiltersBA were byte-identical (defaults), and the transition rendered inert (luma flat through its window, the E66 law) — the dip colour stays GUI-only on 19.1.3.7 (measured, E111). The writer emits a Solid Color's colour as the FxPlug parameter `input_1` (effectid FxPlugWrapper:C18E8B62_…), not `fillcolor` — an authored EffectFiltersBA colour came back exactly (white, 128/64/191; E112). The OTIO writer CANNOT: EXPORT_OTIO emits a Solid Color as a Clip.2 named 'Solid Color' with a NULL media_reference, metadata {"Resolve_OTIO": {}} and a parameterless Transform effect — no colour anywhere (measured E117) — so only an XML re-export witnesses a generator colour (editorial.verify_roundtrip exportedFormat → generatorColourNotInExport). Such an OTIO export DOES re-conform through drt.assemble_from_interchange (E118): the media-less generator clips walk as black legs and the clip→generator fade renders 124→16 — black, the colour having been lost by the writer. COMPOUND CLIPS: EXPORT_OTIO nests a compound as a Stack.1 inside the track (its source_range = the trim window into the compound; nested compounds nest Stacks recursively — measured E120 on a depth-2 timeline), while EXPORT_FCP_7_XML flattens the compound to a single media-less clipitem named after it (no inner content). editorial.parse_interchange flattens the OTIO Stacks into record time (fromCompound on each cut). EXPORT_DRT of the same timeline holds THREE SeqContainers (top + one per compound); a SeqContainer XML carries NO timeline name — its first <Name> is the first clip's — while MediaPool/Master/MpFolder.xml's Sm2MpTimelineClip / Sm2MpCompoundClip embed the <Sm2Sequence DbId> the container's track-level <Sequence> names (measured E127); the compound on the parent track is a plain Sm2TiVideoClip named after it with no MediaFilePath.
 - **Workaround / current handling:** Author fade-to-white / colour mattes by placing a Solid Color generator with that blob (drp-format placeGenerator `color`, drt.assemble elements[].color) — or carry an XMEML generatoritem fillcolor through editorial.parse_interchange; the bridge authors the coloured leg.
 - **Tags:** xml, import, generator, colour, export, drt
 

package/install.py

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ from src.utils.update_check import (
 
 # ─── Version ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
-VERSION = "2.180.0"
+VERSION = "2.181.0"
 # Only hard floor: mcp[cli] requires Python 3.10+. There is no upper bound —
 # Resolve's scripting bridge loads into newer interpreters on recent builds
 # (Python 3.14 verified against Resolve Studio 20.3.2). Older Resolve builds

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "davinci-resolve-mcp",
-  "version": "2.180.0",
+  "version": "2.181.0",
   "description": "NPM bootstrapper for the DaVinci Resolve MCP Server.",
   "license": "MIT",
   "author": "Samuel Gursky <samgursky@gmail.com>",

package/resolve-advanced/server/sequences.mjs

@@ -45,7 +45,21 @@ export function detectFormat(filePath, explicit) {
 
 /** Map a parseDRT() result → uniform [{id,name,eventCount,index}]. Shared with the drt tool. */
 export function summarizeDrtTimelines(parsed) {
-  return (parsed.timelines || []).map((tl, index) => {
+  const tls = parsed.timelines || [];
+  // E127: a compound container is NESTED in every timeline/compound whose
+  // tracks place a clip named after it — the picker should offer the parent.
+  const nestedIn = new Map();
+  for (const tl of tls) {
+    for (const t of tl.videoTracks || []) {
+      for (const c of t.clips || []) {
+        if (c.compound) {
+          if (!nestedIn.has(c.compound)) nestedIn.set(c.compound, []);
+          if (!nestedIn.get(c.compound).includes(tl.name)) nestedIn.get(c.compound).push(tl.name);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return tls.map((tl, index) => {
     const vids = (tl.videoTracks || []).reduce((n, t) => n + (t.clips ? t.clips.length : 0), 0);
     const auds = (tl.audioTracks || []).reduce((n, t) => n + (t.clips ? t.clips.length : 0), 0);
     return {
@@ -53,6 +67,8 @@ export function summarizeDrtTimelines(parsed) {
       name: tl.name || `Sequence ${index + 1}`,
       eventCount: vids + auds,
       index,
+      ...(tl.kind ? { kind: tl.kind } : {}),
+      nestedIn: nestedIn.get(tl.name) || [],
     };
   });
 }

package/resolve-advanced/server/tools/drt.mjs

@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ function requirePathArg(args, key, action) {
 export const drtTool = {
   name: 'drt',
   description:
-    'DaVinci Resolve Timeline (.drt) operations — offline, no Resolve required. Actions: assemble_from_interchange (EDL/OTIO/XML/AAF + sourceMap → IMPORTABLE RENDERING native .drt in one call; retimes AUTHOR — constant speed fwd/rev AND zero-speed freezes (EDL M2 000.0; render-proven frozen); cross-dissolves are AUTHORED when the cut abuts with handles both sides (render-verified on 19), else dropped with reason; fades AUTHOR across ALL FOUR formats (EDL BL legs, OTIO gap-adjacent Transitions, XMEML edge transitionitems, AAF filler-adjacent Transitions) and AAF overlap-consuming dissolves reconcile+author (CutPoint honored; before E93 they threw at the overlap gate) — BL legs become Solid Color generators and the fade a real clip-to-generator dissolve, luma-ramp render-verified, while Resolve\'s OWN EDL importer drops BL dissolves silently; ledger in `conform`), assemble (spec → IMPORTABLE native-schema .drt via template-spliced real structures; pass targetAppVersion e.g. \'19.1\' for pre-21 hosts), parse, list_sequences (enumerate the timelines inside a .drp/.drt → [{id,name,eventCount,index}] to drive a "which sequence?" picker), author, validate, inject_into_drp, extract_from_drp (pull one SeqContainer out as a .drt — feed the .drt to the Python davinci-resolve MCP timeline.import_timeline_checked, or use timeline.import_from_drp to do both), downgrade (stamp <ProjectVersion> down so an OLDER Resolve will import a .drt/.drp from a newer one — pass targetAppVersion like "19.1.3" or targetProjectVersion).',
+    'DaVinci Resolve Timeline (.drt) operations — offline, no Resolve required. Actions: assemble_from_interchange (EDL/OTIO/XML/AAF + sourceMap → IMPORTABLE RENDERING native .drt in one call; retimes AUTHOR — constant speed fwd/rev AND zero-speed freezes (EDL M2 000.0; render-proven frozen); cross-dissolves are AUTHORED when the cut abuts with handles both sides (render-verified on 19), else dropped with reason; fades AUTHOR across ALL FOUR formats (EDL BL legs, OTIO gap-adjacent Transitions, XMEML edge transitionitems, AAF filler-adjacent Transitions) and AAF overlap-consuming dissolves reconcile+author (CutPoint honored; before E93 they threw at the overlap gate) — BL legs become Solid Color generators and the fade a real clip-to-generator dissolve, luma-ramp render-verified, while Resolve\'s OWN EDL importer drops BL dissolves silently; ledger in `conform`), assemble (spec → IMPORTABLE native-schema .drt via template-spliced real structures; pass targetAppVersion e.g. \'19.1\' for pre-21 hosts), parse, list_sequences (enumerate the timelines inside a .drp/.drt → [{id,name,eventCount,index,kind,nestedIn}] to drive a "which sequence?" picker — names and kind (timeline|compound) come from the pool folder, since a SeqContainer carries no timeline name and its first <Name> is a CLIP\'s (measured, E127); a compound container is nestedIn every timeline that places it, and a media-less clip named after a compound is tagged `compound` in parse), author, validate, inject_into_drp, extract_from_drp (pull one SeqContainer out as a .drt — feed the .drt to the Python davinci-resolve MCP timeline.import_timeline_checked, or use timeline.import_from_drp to do both), downgrade (stamp <ProjectVersion> down so an OLDER Resolve will import a .drt/.drp from a newer one — pass targetAppVersion like "19.1.3" or targetProjectVersion).',
   async handler({ action, args }) {
     if (action === 'parse') {
       const p = parseSchema.parse(requirePathArg(args, 'drtPath', 'parse'));

package/resolve-advanced/vendor/drt-format/drt-parser.js

@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ function extractClipsFromTrackXml(trackXml, trackType) {
     }
     clips.push({
       clipId: m[3],
+      name: extractScalar(inner, 'Name'),
       start,
       duration,
       mediaFilePath,
@@ -94,9 +95,44 @@ function extractTracks(seqXml, trackVecTag, trackTagBase, trackType) {
   return tracks;
 }
 
-function parseSeqContainer(seqXml, sequenceName) {
-  return {
-    name: extractScalar(seqXml, 'Name') || sequenceName,
+/**
+ * The pool folder's own naming of every sequence (E127, measured against
+ * Resolve 19.1.3.7's EXPORT_DRT of a compound timeline): a SeqContainer XML
+ * carries NO timeline name — its first <Name> is the first CLIP's — while
+ * MediaPool/Master/MpFolder.xml holds an Sm2MpTimelineClip (a timeline) or
+ * Sm2MpCompoundClip (a compound) whose EMBEDDED <Sm2Sequence DbId=X> equals
+ * the container's track-level <Sequence>X</Sequence>. Map X → {name, kind}.
+ */
+async function loadPoolSequenceNames(zip) {
+  const map = new Map();
+  const entries = [];
+  zip.forEach((p, e) => { if (!e.dir && /(^|\/)MpFolder[^/]*\.xml$/.test(p)) entries.push(p); });
+  for (const p of entries) {
+    const xml = await zip.file(p).async('string');
+    const re = /<(Sm2MpTimelineClip|Sm2MpCompoundClip) DbId="([^"]+)">([\s\S]*?)<\/\1>/g;
+    let m;
+    while ((m = re.exec(xml)) !== null) {
+      const body = m[3];
+      const name = extractScalar(body, 'Name');
+      const seqRe = /<Sm2Sequence DbId="([^"]+)">/g;
+      let sm;
+      while ((sm = seqRe.exec(body)) !== null) {
+        if (!map.has(sm[1])) map.set(sm[1], { name, kind: m[1] === 'Sm2MpCompoundClip' ? 'compound' : 'timeline' });
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return map;
+}
+
+function parseSeqContainer(seqXml, sequenceName, poolNames = new Map()) {
+  const seqId = extractScalar(seqXml, 'Sequence');
+  const pool = seqId ? poolNames.get(seqId) : null;
+  const compoundNames = new Set([...poolNames.values()].filter((v) => v.kind === 'compound' && v.name).map((v) => v.name));
+  const parsed = {
+    // The pool's name for this sequence when the export carries one; the
+    // first <Name> in the container is a CLIP name and only a fallback.
+    name: (pool && pool.name) || extractScalar(seqXml, 'Name') || sequenceName,
+    kind: pool ? pool.kind : null,
     sequence: sequenceName,
     frameRate: extractScalar(seqXml, 'FrameRate'),
     startTimecode: extractScalar(seqXml, 'StartTC'),
@@ -107,9 +143,16 @@ function parseSeqContainer(seqXml, sequenceName) {
       if (w === null || h === null) return null;
       return `${w}x${h}`;
     })(),
-    videoTracks: extractTracks(seqXml, 'VideoTrackVec', 'Sm2TiVideoTrack', 'video'),
+    videoTracks: extractTracks(seqXml, 'VideoTrackVec', 'Sm2TiVideoTrack', 'video').map((t) => ({
+      ...t,
+      // A media-less clip named after a compound in the pool IS that compound
+      // placed on this track (E127) — tag it so consumers do not read it as a
+      // missing source.
+      clips: (t.clips || []).map((c) => (c.mediaFilePath == null && c.name && compoundNames.has(c.name) ? { ...c, compound: c.name } : c)),
+    })),
     audioTracks: extractTracks(seqXml, 'AudioTrackVec', 'Sm2TiAudioTrack', 'audio'),
   };
+  return parsed;
 }
 
 async function loadMetadata(zip) {
@@ -146,10 +189,11 @@ async function parseDRT(drtPathOrBuffer, options = {}) {
     throw new Error('parseDRT: no SeqContainer*.xml entries found — is this a DRT/DRP?');
   }
 
+  const poolNames = await loadPoolSequenceNames(zip);
   const timelines = [];
   for (const p of seqEntries) {
     const xml = await zip.file(p).async('string');
-    timelines.push(parseSeqContainer(xml, p));
+    timelines.push(parseSeqContainer(xml, p, poolNames));
   }
 
   const metadata = await loadMetadata(zip);

package/src/granular/common.py

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ if not logging.getLogger().handlers:
         handlers=[logging.StreamHandler()],
     )
 
-VERSION = "2.180.0"
+VERSION = "2.181.0"
 logger = logging.getLogger("davinci-resolve-mcp")
 logger.info(f"Starting DaVinci Resolve MCP Server v{VERSION}")
 logger.info(f"Detected platform: {get_platform()}")

package/src/server.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Usage:
     python src/server.py --full       # Start the 353-tool granular server instead
 """
 
-VERSION = "2.180.0"
+VERSION = "2.181.0"
 
 import base64
 import os

package/src/utils/api_truth.py

@@ -2859,7 +2859,14 @@ API_TRUTH: List[Dict[str, Any]] = [
                    "compound to a single media-less clipitem named after it "
                    "(no inner content). editorial.parse_interchange flattens "
                    "the OTIO Stacks into record time (fromCompound on each "
-                   "cut).",
+                   "cut). EXPORT_DRT of the same timeline holds THREE "
+                   "SeqContainers (top + one per compound); a SeqContainer XML "
+                   "carries NO timeline name — its first <Name> is the first "
+                   "clip's — while MediaPool/Master/MpFolder.xml's "
+                   "Sm2MpTimelineClip / Sm2MpCompoundClip embed the "
+                   "<Sm2Sequence DbId> the container's track-level <Sequence> "
+                   "names (measured E127); the compound on the parent track is "
+                   "a plain Sm2TiVideoClip named after it with no MediaFilePath.",
         "recommended": "Author fade-to-white / colour mattes by placing a "
                        "Solid Color generator with that blob "
                        "(drp-format placeGenerator `color`, drt.assemble "