davinci-resolve-mcp 2.212.4 → 2.213.1

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package/AGENTS.md CHANGED
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  limitation, add a `submit`-tagged entry to `src/utils/api_truth.py` and
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  regenerate with `scripts/gen_api_limitations.py` (a drift guard enforces it)
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  - Bundled Resolve API text: `docs/reference/resolve_scripting_api.txt` — refresh
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- it by copying the shipped `Developer/Scripting/README.txt` over it wholesale,
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- never by hand-adding the lines you already know about. The file's only value
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- is that a diff against it is trustworthy; a hand-patch carries a newer
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- `Last Updated:` header while still hiding everything you did not know to look
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- for. That is exactly how it sat eight weeks stale at 26 May 2026 while ten
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- documented 21.0.4 methods went unwired (PR #139)
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+ it by copying the shipped scripting README over it wholesale, never by
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+ hand-adding the lines you already know about. The file's only value is that a
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+ diff against it is trustworthy; a hand-patch carries a newer `Last Updated:`
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+ header while still hiding everything you did not know to look for. That is
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+ exactly how it sat eight weeks stale at 26 May 2026 while ten documented
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+ 21.0.4 methods went unwired (PR #139).
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+ **The shipped README moved in 21.1.** `Developer/Scripting/README.txt` is
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+ gone; the pack is now `README.md`, a typed `DaVinciResolveScript.pyi` (the
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+ full signature surface, which the old README never carried) and a
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+ `CHANGELOG.md` of per-version additions. Copying `README.md` over the bundled
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+ file is still the right refresh, but it renumbers every line — and
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+ `scripts/audit_api_parity.py`, `tests/test_resolve_bridge.py` and a few dozen
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+ `resolve_scripting_api.txt line N` comments in `src/` read it. Re-run the
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+ parity audit and re-anchor those comments in the same change, or leave the
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+ file at its 21.0 revision and cite the `.pyi` for new work
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  ## Key Paths
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  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.
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+ ## What's New in v2.213.1 — Fusion keyframes reach the render; the contact sheet waits for the viewer; the ledger learns Resolve 21.1
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+ Reported in #196 by @JosephConroy93, with a repro precise enough to reproduce
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+ on the first run.
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+ ### Fixed — Fusion keyframes (#196)
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+ - **`fusion_comp add_keyframe` wrote the keyframe under `comp.Lock()`, so it
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+ read back correctly and never rendered.** This is the comp-lock class this
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+ repo documented in v2.98.5 for `set_input` — a value write under a lock
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+ lands in the graph, `GetKeyFrames` lists it, Fusion's own page playback
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+ interpolates it, and the delivered render ignores it — and `add_keyframe`
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+ was the site that never got the fix. Measured on Studio 19.1.3.7 with a
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+ Transform `Size` keyframed 2.0 → 1.0 over 47 frames on a media-backed clip:
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+ through the shipped handler the render was bit-identical to the no-comp
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+ baseline (PSNR inf); the identical writes with the lock removed rendered the
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+ zoom (PSNR 13.3 dB against baseline, and frame 46 back within 44 dB of the
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+ baseline as `Size` returned to 1.0). Four unlocked variants all rendered —
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+ modifier locked with the write outside, `StartUndo`/`EndUndo` around both,
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+ nothing wrapped, and a spline assigned directly — so the write pattern is
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+ not the variable, the lock is. The handler now wraps the spline attach and
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+ the first key in `StartUndo`/`EndUndo`, the escape `bulk_set_inputs`
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+ already uses, which also gives the user one undo step per keyframe.
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+ - **`delete_keyframe` moved off the lock for consistency, not because it was
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+ broken.** It was mutation-checked: re-locking the delete and rendering still
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+ removed the key from the output (frame 46 stayed at the 2.0 zoom, 5.7 dB
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+ from baseline). The lock does not suppress a spline delete on 19.1.3.7.
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+ ### Notes on the report
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+ - The reporter's own patch — write outside the lock, modifier still inside —
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+ made their render fail outright on Windows 19.1.3.7 and 21.0.4.5. That
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+ variant rendered correctly here on macOS 19.1.3.7, so the failure was not
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+ reproduced and its cause is unknown; the shipped fix uses the undo-wrapped
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+ shape instead, which rendered on every attempt.
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+ - Priming (an unrelated unlocked write first) did not rescue it for the
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+ reporter. That matches the v2.98.8 mechanism only partly and was not
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+ re-tested here.
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+ ### Validation — #196
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+ - `tests/test_fusion_value_write_lock.py` now recognises the keyframe write
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+ shape (`tool[input][time] = value`) under a lock, and fails against the
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+ pre-fix server naming `add_keyframe`'s line — the guard was confirmed to
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+ fail before it was confirmed to pass.
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+ - Live render witness on Studio 19.1.3.7 through the real `fusion_comp`
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+ handlers: `add_keyframe` animates, `delete_keyframe` removes, `get_keyframes`
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+ reads the written values. Full offline Python suite, drift guards and the
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+ advanced Node suite green.
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+ #197 and #198 contributed by @billcarroll, on the day Resolve 21.1 shipped. Also on landing: `timeline_markers get_thumbnail` read the thumbnail once too and now goes through the same settle helper; live-validated on the same scratch timeline (two of two reads), with the guard covering both sites.
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+ ### Fixed — contact sheet and get_thumbnail (#198)
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+ - **`timeline thumbnail_contact_sheet` returned "No thumbnail available" for
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+ every frame.** It moved the playhead and read the thumbnail once,
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+ immediately; the viewer has not caught up when the scripting call that
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+ follows a playhead move lands, so each sample came back empty. The sheet now
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+ reads through `_playhead_thumbnail_settled`, the polling helper the
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+ single-frame path already used — it was the one caller not switched over.
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+ Live-validated on Studio 19.1.3.7: three samples across a scratch timeline,
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+ all three returned thumbnails. A static guard now fails the suite if any
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+ `GetCurrentClipThumbnailImage` read appears outside that helper. (#198)
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+ ### Documentation — Resolve 21.1 in the API ledger (#197)
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+ - **Three `api_truth` entries corrected for Resolve 21.1** (#197), on the
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+ strength of the contributor's attribute probe of Studio 21.1.0.14. Native
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+ multicam clip creation is withdrawn as a gap (`MediaPool.CreateMulticamClip`,
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+ `TimelineItem.FlattenMulticam`, `PerformMulticamSmartSwitch`,
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+ `Timeline.AutoAlignClips` resolve on 21.1); transition **creation** is fixed
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+ by `TimelineItem.AddTransition` while readback and cloning stay missing; and
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+ the truncated `GetClipProperty('Transcription')` now has a real route around
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+ it in `MediaPoolItem.GetTranscription()`, which returns per-word timing and
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+ speakers for the source clip. `docs/reference/api-limitations.md` regenerated
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+ (42 → 41 missing capabilities).
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+ - **Provenance is stated in each entry.** No 21.1 build exists on the
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+ maintainer's machine, so the entries record these as *reported by the
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+ contributor, not reproduced here*, following the ledger's existing
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+ measured / reported distinction. None of the methods was invoked; the claim
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+ is existence and signature only, and each entry says what would falsify it.
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+ - **The shipped scripting README moved in 21.1.** `Developer/Scripting/README.txt`
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+ is gone in favour of `README.md`, a typed `DaVinciResolveScript.pyi` and a
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+ `CHANGELOG.md`. `tests/live_resolve21_validation.py` reads either name, and
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+ `AGENTS.md` explains why the bundled API text is not refreshed in the same
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+ change (every `resolve_scripting_api.txt line N` anchor in `src/` would move).
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+ ### Validation — #197 and #198
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+ - Full offline Python suite, drift guards (api-limitations, agent rules,
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+ release surfaces), the advanced Node suite. Contact sheet live-validated as
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+ above; the api_truth change is documentation and needs no Resolve run.
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+ ## What's New in v2.213.0 — a ColorTrace that matches on media, then applies
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+ ### Added
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+ - **`color_trace` matches on media identity, names last.** Native ColorTrace
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+ keys on timecode, clip name and order inside one project, so a renamed clip,
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+ a reordered cut, or a stringout cut into graded sections defeats it. The
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+ advanced server's `color_trace plan` now reads both timelines from their
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+ `Project.db` (any two projects, read-only, no Resolve) and matches in tiers:
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+ same media (pool item id or file path) with the same in-point and duration;
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+ same media with overlapping source range (the best overlap wins, so each
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+ section of a stringout finds its own grade); same reel plus overlap; same
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+ file name plus overlap (relocated media); then, only as a fallback, exact and
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+ normalised clip names. Every match reports its `method`, `confidence`,
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+ `sourceOverlap` and an `ambiguous` flag when two candidates tie.
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+ - **`plan.json` + a lossless `.drx` per graded match.** With `emitDir` set the
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+ plan writes one `.drx` per match by copying the source clip's grade body
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+ byte for byte (no decode/re-encode, so OFX/ResolveFX nodes survive) and a
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+ `plan.json` that names each target clip by (name, record start, duration).
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+ - **`timeline_item_color.apply_trace_plan` — the live half.** Resolves every
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+ plan entry to a clip on the CURRENT timeline, returns a dry-run resolution
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+ table (`apply` or `skip` with a reason: `live_item_not_found`,
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+ `ambiguous_live_item`, `below_min_confidence`, `drx_missing`,
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+ `drx_path_not_temp`, `no-source-grade`, `unmatched`), then behind one
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+ `confirm_token` for the whole batch runs `ApplyGradeFromDRX` per clip.
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+ Registered as a destructive action (timeline archived to the Archive bin
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+ first, rated with the other whole-grade replacements, native dry-run).
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+ `version_name` adds a local version per clip before applying so the previous
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+ grade stays intact; `min_confidence` (default 0.8) gates the name-only tiers
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+ out unless you lower it. Unresolved entries are reported, never guessed.
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+ ### Changed
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+ - **`project_read.timeline_clips` reads the ACTIVE grade version.** The clip
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+ join now follows the version table's `pActive` and dedupes to one row per
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+ item, so a clip carrying several corrected versions no longer reads back as
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+ several clips. Rows also carry the pool item id (`poolId`) and `hasGrade`.
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+ - **Name normalisation only strips `v`-prefixed version tokens.** Stripping any
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+ trailing number folded `SHOT_010` and `SHOT_020` onto one key, so a
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+ name-tier match could cross shots.
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+ ### What was checked
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+ - Offline: 11 new match-engine tests (stringout sections by overlap, straddling
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+ ranges, ties → ambiguous, pool-id vs path, reel and basename tiers,
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+ unreadable in-point degrading to `media-only`, name fallbacks, active-version
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+ dedupe) and 9 driver tests (resolution reasons, stacked clips disambiguated
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+ by duration, ambiguous live items skipped, token → apply with `version_name`,
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+ partial failure reported, dispatch without an item). Both full suites green.
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+ - **Not yet live-validated:** the end-to-end trace onto a real target timeline
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+ with a render check afterwards. The plan step was live-verified against a
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+ scratch DB in v2.136; the apply step is unit-tested against stubs only.
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  ## What's New in v2.212.4 — both dependency manifests move together again
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  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。
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  | Media Pool / ingest | `media_pool` | `ingest_capabilities`, `setup_multicam_timeline`, `probe_ingest_item`, `probe_media_pool`, `safe_import_media`, `safe_import_sequence`, `safe_import_folder`, `organize_clips`, `copy_metadata`, `normalize_metadata`, `probe_clip_properties`, `metadata_field_inventory`, `safe_relink`, `safe_unlink`, `link_proxy_checked`, `link_full_resolution_checked`, `set_clip_marks`, `clear_clip_marks`, `copy_clip_annotations`, `media_pool_boundary_report` |
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  | Render / Deliver | `render` | `render_capabilities`, `probe_render_matrix`, `probe_render_settings`, `validate_render_settings`, `safe_set_render_settings`, `prepare_render_job`, `render_job_lifecycle_probe`, `quick_export_capabilities`, `safe_quick_export`, `export_render_boundary_report` |
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  | Review annotations | `timeline_markers` | `annotation_capabilities`, `probe_annotations`, `normalize_marker_payload`, `copy_annotations`, `move_annotations`, `sync_marker_custom_data`, `clear_annotations_by_scope`, `export_review_report`, `annotation_boundary_report` |
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- | Color / Grade | `timeline_item_color` | `grade_capabilities`, `probe_grade_item`, `probe_node_graph`, `safe_set_cdl`, `safe_copy_grade`, `safe_apply_drx`, `safe_export_lut`, `grade_version_snapshot`, `grade_version_restore`, `color_group_capabilities`, `gallery_capabilities`, `grade_boundary_report` |
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+ | Color / Grade | `timeline_item_color` | `grade_capabilities`, `probe_grade_item`, `probe_node_graph`, `safe_set_cdl`, `safe_copy_grade`, `safe_apply_drx`, `apply_trace_plan`, `safe_export_lut`, `grade_version_snapshot`, `grade_version_restore`, `color_group_capabilities`, `gallery_capabilities`, `grade_boundary_report` |
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  | `safe_set_cdl` | Validate and normalize CDL payloads before calling `SetCDL`; supports dry run. |
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  - **Reference:** [issue #73](https://github.com/samuelgursky/davinci-resolve-mcp/issues/73)
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- - **Behavior:** There is no method to ADD or CLONE an edit transition — no AddTransition/CreateTransition/AddVideoTransition on Timeline or TimelineItem (dir(), 21.0.4.5). CORRECTION, measured on Studio 21.0.4.5 (2026-08-12): this entry previously said transitions applied in the UI are 'invisible to and unmodifiable by scripts'. BOTH HALVES WERE WRONG and are withdrawn. A transition IS a first-class timeline item: a 12-frame Cross Dissolve applied through the Edit-page right-click menu enumerates in GetItemListInTrack('video', 1) as GetName()=='Cross Dissolve', GetStart()==86426, GetDuration()==12 — centered on a cut at 86432 — with a stable GetUniqueId() and a working GetTrackTypeAndIndex(). A transition authored offline into a .drp and imported reads IDENTICALLY, so the route that created it does not matter. It is also REMOVABLE: Timeline.DeleteClips([transition], False) returns True and deletes it, leaving both adjacent clips at their original starts and durations. THE DISCRIMINATOR between a transition item and a clip item is GetProperty(): a transition returns an EMPTY dict where a video clip returns 26 transform keys; it also has no MediaPoolItem and no Fusion comp. WHAT IS GENUINELY MISSING: creation, cloning, and any type/alignment/parameter detail — the transition's kind is knowable ONLY from its name string, and there is no way to read its alignment (centered/start/end) or edit its duration. AUDIO NUANCE (measured 2026-09-01 on 19.1.3.7, E113): an audio cross-fade enumerates in GetItemListInTrack('audio', n) with an EMPTY GetName() (24 frames, centered on the cut, between the two clips) — so on audio lanes even the kind is not readable from the name. The discriminator that holds for BOTH: GetMediaPoolItem() is None AND GetProperty() is empty — BUT a Solid Color generator AND a subtitle item read the same way (GetProperty() None, no MediaPoolItem; measured E115), so that pair only separates clips from non-clips. What separates a transition from a generator is GEOMETRY: a transition straddles a cut (one neighbour ends inside its span, another starts inside it) while a generator owns its span. timeline.get_items reports `kind` on that basis.
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- - **Workaround / current handling:** Automated QC of existing transitions IS possible and is the main practical need — enumerate GetItemListInTrack, treat any item whose GetProperty() is empty and whose GetMediaPoolItem() is None as a transition, and read its name, start and duration. Removal is scriptable via Timeline.DeleteClips. To CREATE one, either apply it in the Resolve UI, or author it offline and import: the advanced server's drp place_transition writes a cross dissolve at an abutting cut ({track, atFrame, durationFrames}) and it round-trips into Resolve 21.0.4.5 reading back at the expected centered range.
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+ - **Behavior:** CREATION IS FIXED IN 21.1, READBACK IS NOT. Reported by @billcarroll (PR #197) from an attribute probe on Studio 21.1.0.14 (2026-09-08; not reproduced here, no 21.1 install): TimelineItem.AddTransition resolves to a <BlackmagicFusion.PyFunctionCall object>, not None. Its stub signature is AddTransition(transitionOptions) -> TimelineItem | None, where transitionOptions carries type (e.g. 'Cross Dissolve'), category ('simple'|'fusion'|'ofx'|'audio'), position ('start'|'end'), alignment ('left'|'center'|'right') and an optional duration in frames. It was NOT invoked (a call mutates the user's timeline), so this entry claims existence and signature only. WHAT REMAINS MISSING ON 21.1: reading a transition back. There is still no accessor for an existing transition's type, alignment or duration beyond its name string and frame range, and no clone verb — alignment and duration are write-only arguments to AddTransition. The pre-21.1 statement, kept as the historical record: there was no method to ADD or CLONE an edit transition — no AddTransition/CreateTransition/AddVideoTransition on Timeline or TimelineItem (dir(), 21.0.4.5). CORRECTION, measured on Studio 21.0.4.5 (2026-08-12): this entry previously said transitions applied in the UI are 'invisible to and unmodifiable by scripts'. BOTH HALVES WERE WRONG and are withdrawn. A transition IS a first-class timeline item: a 12-frame Cross Dissolve applied through the Edit-page right-click menu enumerates in GetItemListInTrack('video', 1) as GetName()=='Cross Dissolve', GetStart()==86426, GetDuration()==12 — centered on a cut at 86432 — with a stable GetUniqueId() and a working GetTrackTypeAndIndex(). A transition authored offline into a .drp and imported reads IDENTICALLY, so the route that created it does not matter. It is also REMOVABLE: Timeline.DeleteClips([transition], False) returns True and deletes it, leaving both adjacent clips at their original starts and durations. THE DISCRIMINATOR between a transition item and a clip item is GetProperty(): a transition returns an EMPTY dict where a video clip returns 26 transform keys; it also has no MediaPoolItem and no Fusion comp. WHAT IS GENUINELY MISSING (pre-21.1: creation too; on 21.1+ read the paragraph above): cloning, and any type/alignment/parameter detail — the transition's kind is knowable ONLY from its name string, and there is no way to read its alignment (centered/start/end) or edit its duration. AUDIO NUANCE (measured 2026-09-01 on 19.1.3.7, E113): an audio cross-fade enumerates in GetItemListInTrack('audio', n) with an EMPTY GetName() (24 frames, centered on the cut, between the two clips) — so on audio lanes even the kind is not readable from the name. The discriminator that holds for BOTH: GetMediaPoolItem() is None AND GetProperty() is empty — BUT a Solid Color generator AND a subtitle item read the same way (GetProperty() None, no MediaPoolItem; measured E115), so that pair only separates clips from non-clips. What separates a transition from a generator is GEOMETRY: a transition straddles a cut (one neighbour ends inside its span, another starts inside it) while a generator owns its span. timeline.get_items reports `kind` on that basis.
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+ - **Workaround / current handling:** Automated QC of existing transitions IS possible and is the main practical need — enumerate GetItemListInTrack, treat any item whose GetProperty() is empty and whose GetMediaPoolItem() is None as a transition, and read its name, start and duration. Removal is scriptable via Timeline.DeleteClips. To CREATE one, either apply it in the Resolve UI, or author it offline and import: the advanced server's drp place_transition writes a cross dissolve at an abutting cut ({track, atFrame, durationFrames}) and it round-trips into Resolve 21.0.4.5 reading back at the expected centered range. On 21.1+ prefer TimelineItem.AddTransition, which takes the type, category, edge, alignment and duration directly.
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