davinci-resolve-mcp 2.89.0 → 2.91.0

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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 v2.91.0
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+ A timeline item's source frames are counted in the **media's** frame rate, not
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+ the timeline's — and a WAV carries no native rate, so Resolve reports **24** for
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+ it. Read back at the timeline rate a WAV offset lands minutes from the real
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+ position in the file, and nothing errors: `source_end` is derived as
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+ `source_start + timeline_duration`, so the start/end pair stays internally
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+ consistent whatever rate the caller assumed. Reported and measured by
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+ @rusanivsky in #144.
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+ ### Added
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+ - **`source_fps` beside the frames.** Every timeline-item summary now carries
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+ the rate its source frames are counted in, plus `source_start_seconds` /
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+ `source_end_seconds`, so the frame number always arrives with its unit
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+ attached. The rate is read from the media-pool item's `FPS` property, never
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+ assumed; an unreadable rate reports `null` so callers see *unknown* rather
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+ than a guess.
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+ - **The reader that produced the value is tracked**, because the two do not
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+ agree on units: on an audio item `GetLeftOffset` counts in **timeline** frames
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+ while `GetSourceStartFrame` counts in **source** frames — 60687 vs 75784 for
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+ the same edit point. On that fallback the summary reports `source_fps: null`
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+ rather than pairing a timeline-frame number with the media rate.
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+ - **`create_variant_from_ranges`' per-range `track_index`** — 1-based within
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+ `track_type`, missing tracks added — was accepted but undocumented, so
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+ multicam angles collapsed onto V1 for anyone who did not read the source. Now
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+ in the action help, the action list, the example, and `docs/SKILL.md`.
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+ - The trap is in the `api_truth` ledger and in `resolve-rough-cut`'s verified
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+ traps table.
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+ ### Fixed
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+ - **`source_end_seconds` was the same unit lie the field was added to stop.**
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+ `source_end` is `source_start + duration`, and that duration comes from
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+ `GetDuration` — a **timeline** duration. Converting the sum at the media rate
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+ compounds the very mix-up being guarded. The seconds now come from
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+ `GetSourceStartTime` / `GetSourceEndTime`, which answer in seconds with no
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+ rate inference at all, then from `GetSourceEndFrame / source_fps`, and read
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+ `null` rather than convert the derived value. `source_end` itself is
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+ unchanged — no consumer moves — but it is now annotated as unit-mixed where
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+ it is assigned, in the probe action help, and in the ledger.
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+ ### Validation
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+ - Suite: 2613 passed, 1 skipped. `gen_api_limitations.py --check` clean.
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+ - **Live on Studio 19.1.3.7** with synthetic media, which also shows the trap is
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+ not a 21.x regression. A 300 s 48 kHz WAV reports `FPS 24`; appending its
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+ source frames 4800–5235 to a 29.97 fps timeline yields a timeline duration of
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+ **543** (= 435 × 29.97/24), so `source_end` came back **5343** where the true
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+ source end is 5235 — `source_end / 24` reports **222.625 s** against a real
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+ **218.133 s**, 4.49 s out on a clip 18.1 s long. The patched code reports
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+ 218.133 s. The matching 29.97 video item was unaffected either way (24.524 s
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+ read vs 24.525 s derived). Both second-readers exist on 19.1.3.7.
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+ - Not tested here: the 21.0.3.7 measurements in the ledger entry, which are
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+ @rusanivsky's and are labelled as such.
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+ ## What's New in v2.90.0
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+ AAF turnovers parsed by `editorial.parse_interchange` on the advanced server now
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+ carry their animation curves, the transforms nobody had interpreted, and the
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+ effects that occupy record time while emitting nothing. All three were losses a
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+ consumer could not see, because the parse reported itself complete.
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+ ### Added
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+ - **Keyframe curves ship instead of the word "varying".** A `VaryingValue` was
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+ read for its values alone, and only to answer "one number or more than one" —
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+ `ControlPoint.time` was never asked for, so every animated reframe reached a
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+ consumer as `"varying"`: enough to refuse the clip, never enough to rebuild
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+ it. Transform stages now carry `keyframes[<AvidParamName>]` and retimes carry
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+ `speedCurve.playRate` / `speedCurve.sourceOffset`, each with its interpolation
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+ and its points as `{t, v, frame}`.
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+ - **`domain` names which rule produced `frame`,** because the two curve families
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+ do not share a time domain and a single conversion rule would have been wrong
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+ by an effect's whole length on one of them. Measured over all 2047 control
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+ points of an 878-event Avid picture turnover: transform params are normalized
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+ over the effect span with the endpoint inclusive (`frame = t x (length - 1)`,
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+ which lands 1243 of 1254 points on an integer frame against 278 under
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+ `length`), while speed maps are already in frames. Keys outside `0..1` are
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+ kept rather than clamped — 107 of 1254 sit before the first frame or past the
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+ last, which is what Avid leaves when an animated clip is trimmed. A curve with
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+ one unreadable point is refused whole; interpolating through a missing key
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+ produces a confident wrong animation.
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+ - **`passthrough` stages carry the four uninterpreted transform operations**
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+ (SBlend_v2, Stabilize_2, MaskImage_2, 2DMatteKey_2) that were previously
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+ discarded whole — 22 events on the fixture. Their numbers travel in
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+ `rawParams`, deliberately not `params`: the same parameter *name* carries
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+ different units on different operations (SBlend's `DVE_POS_X_U` runs to -315
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+ where Stabilize's runs to -0.92 on the same show), so there is nothing to
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+ normalize, and a 2DMatteKey `AFX_POS_X_U` of 500 promoted into `params` would
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+ become a ~960px shift of a clip nobody repositioned.
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+ - **`effectsWithoutEvents` closes a hole `unhandled` structurally cannot see.**
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+ An effect can be modelled perfectly and still emit nothing — the group is
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+ walked, its inputs are walked, and they contain no `SourceClip`. On the
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+ fixture `unhandled` reads `{}` (a complete parse) while 29 SubCap titles
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+ occupy real record time and reach the consumer as nothing whatsoever. Charged
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+ once, to the innermost cause.
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+ - **`speedRatioFromCurve`** — the rate the offset curve itself implies, emitted
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+ only when that curve is straight, so no variable timewarp is ever averaged
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+ into a single number.
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+ ### Fixed
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+ frames, and 7 of 18 constant retimes on the fixture disagree with their own
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+ curve** — `201/112 = 1.794643` where the curve says `201.6/112 = 1.80`, and at
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+ worst `31/19 = 1.631579` against a curve reading `1.70`, a 4% speed error in a
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+ number an operator is handed to type in by hand. Every curve slope lands on a
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+ rate an editor would actually dial (1.7, 1.8, 2.0, 0.75); every declared value
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+ is that rate spoiled by rounding. Both ship under their own names and neither
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+ is substituted for the other.
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+ - **Variable timewarps are reconstructible.** The offset curve is dense (up to
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+ 387 points at half-frame steps) and describes where every record frame reads
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+ from, taking the 4 variable timewarps on the fixture from "flagged, rebuild
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+ from nothing" to fully described — including one reverse ramp whose offset
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+ runs 301.0 to -0.78. Reverse read off the curve agreed with the declared flag
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+ 9 of 9, in both directions.
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+ ### Validation
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+ - Every pre-existing field is byte-identical on the fixture, verified by a
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+ structural diff of the full 878-event parse against the previous output; event
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+ count, `unhandled`, and all existing counters are unchanged.
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+ - 10 new tests in `resolve-advanced/test/aaf-sequences.test.mjs`.
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+ - No DaVinci Resolve scripting behavior changed; this is offline interchange
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+ parsing, so no live Resolve validation was required.
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  ## What's New in v2.89.0
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  The build gates this server already enforced are now gates an agent can ask
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- > 本翻译对应 v2.89.0 版 README。如与英文原版有出入,以 [英文原版](README.md) 为准。
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+ > 本翻译对应 v2.91.0 版 README。如与英文原版有出入,以 [英文原版](README.md) 为准。
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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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+ `track_index?` (default 1), so multicam angles can be rebuilt onto V2/V3
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  - **Workaround / current handling:** Verify source-side placement with GetLeftOffset, which is exact. Treat GetSourceStartFrame as approximate, and never diff it against a sent startFrame to decide whether a clip landed right. Scope: placement at 100% speed. On a retimed clip the two read DIFFERENT domains — GetLeftOffset is warped (position / speed), GetSourceStartFrame is true source — see the retime entry's witness calibration before comparing them.
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+ - **Behavior:** The value is counted in the source MEDIA's own frame rate, not the timeline's — and a WAV carries no frame rate, so Resolve falls back to 24 fps. Reading it at the timeline rate lands minutes away from the real position in the file. Verified live on Studio 21.0.3.7 (2026-08-09, 29.97 fps timeline): a ZOOM0028.WAV item reported source_start 56871, which is 56871 / 24 = 2369.6 s into the file, NOT the 1897.6 s a 29.97 fps reading gives — a 471.9 s (7 min 52 s) error. Nothing looks wrong, because timeline probe_timeline_structure derives source_end as source_start + timeline_duration: the start/end pair stays internally consistent whatever rate you assume. VIDEO items are NOT affected — two 29.97 fps items (KR020007.MOV, IMG_0001.mov) on the same timeline reported source frames in their own, matching rate, confirmed against ffprobe durations and span arithmetic. This is the read-side twin of the AppendToTimeline mixed-fps entry below: that one is about writing source frames whose rate differs from the timeline's, this one about reading them back and not knowing which rate they are in. The rate was pinned by regression, not assumed: across 12 items of the same WAV, GetSourceStartFrame advances at 24.000 fps against the item's own GetSourceStartTime (24.0000/24.0007/23.9995 over spans up to 22 minutes). The same measurement exposed a second unit trap: on an AUDIO item GetLeftOffset advances at 29.970 — the TIMELINE rate — so the two readers describe the same edit point in DIFFERENT frame spaces (60687 vs 75784 for one item). On video they share the source space. Caveat on the absolute zero: Resolve's model of this file is 133003 frames (Duration 01:32:21:19 at 24 fps = 5541.79 s) while its true PCM length is 266264768 samples / 48 kHz = 5547.18 s, a 0.097% difference we have not explained — so frames/24 is exact in Resolve's source-time space, which is the space every other Resolve call uses, but may sit ~2 s off the byte position in a 40-minute-deep offset. Re-confirmed on Studio 19.1.3.7 (2026-08-10) with synthetic media, so this is not a 21.x regression: a 300 s 48 kHz WAV reports FPS 24, and appending source frames 4800-5235 of it to a 29.97 fps timeline yields a timeline duration of 543 (= 435 x 29.97/24), which is the conversion happening in the open. The same run measured the cost of the derived end: source_end came back 5343 (4800 + 543) where the true source end is 5235, so source_end / 24 reports 222.625 s against a real 218.133 s from GetSourceEndTime — 4.49 s out, on a clip only 18.1 s long. GetSourceStartTime read exactly 200.0 s (= 4800/24) on the same item. The matching VIDEO item (29.97 source in a 29.97 timeline) was unaffected in both: 24.524 s read against 24.525 s derived. Both second-readers exist on 19.1.3.7, so the GetSourceEndFrame fallback below is for builds older still.
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+ - **Workaround / current handling:** Convert an audio item's source frames with the MEDIA's rate, never the timeline's: seconds = source_start / media_fps, treating a WAV (or any container with no native rate) as 24 fps. Take media_fps from the media-pool item's 'FPS' clip property or from ffprobe — do not infer it from the timeline. Feed the frames back to timeline create_variant_from_ranges in the same media-rate space you read them in; it converts on placement and reports the conversion in items[].duration_delta. The separate GetSourceStartFrame entry above (off-by-one vs GetLeftOffset) applies on top of this — the rate question is which unit the number is in, not whether it is exact. Mitigated in-process: _timeline_item_summary now emits source_fps and source_start_seconds/source_end_seconds beside the frames, so the number always arrives with its unit; on the GetLeftOffset fallback for an audio item it reports the rate as unknown rather than converting a timeline-frame value at the media rate. Note which number may be converted: source_end in the same summary is derived as source_start + TIMELINE duration, so on this WAV it adds 435 frames of 29.97 record time to a 24 fps source frame and dividing THAT by 24 reports an 18.125 s span for a 14.515 s clip. The seconds therefore come from GetSourceStartTime/GetSourceEndTime — which answer in seconds with no rate inference at all — then from GetSourceEndFrame / media_fps, and read null rather than convert the derived source_end.
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+ # 278 also do under (length), so the two are distinguishable and (length - 1)
490
+ # is the rule. The 11 that land on neither are ONE keyframe of one clip at
491
+ # frame 125.5 — a legitimate half-frame key, which (length - 1) renders exactly.
492
+ # * SPEED maps are already in effect FRAMES: PARAM_SPEED_OFFSET_MAP_U spans
493
+ # exactly 0..length on every one of the 11 retimes carrying it.
494
+ #
495
+ # So a single "convert to frames" rule would be wrong by the effect's whole length
496
+ # on one of the two families. The domain is therefore NAMED in the output and the
497
+ # raw stored `t` travels next to the derived `frame`, so a consumer that disagrees
498
+ # with our arithmetic can redo it. Same discipline as the raw AFX_* passthrough:
499
+ # a stored number keeps its own name until its semantics are measured.
500
+ #
501
+ # Keyframes outside 0..1 are REAL and are kept: 107 of 1254 sit before the effect's
502
+ # first frame or after its last, which is what Avid leaves behind when a clip is
503
+ # trimmed after it was animated. Clamping them would silently move the animation.
504
+
505
+ _DOMAIN_EFFECT_SPAN = "effectSpan" # frame = t x (length - 1)
506
+ _DOMAIN_EFFECT_FRAMES = "effectFrames" # frame = t
507
+
508
+
509
+ def _interpolation_name(varying):
510
+ try:
511
+ return str(varying.interpolationdef.name or "") or None
512
+ except Exception:
513
+ return None
514
+
515
+
516
+ def _keyframes(varying, *, length, domain):
517
+ """One VaryingValue as an explicit curve, or None if its points are unreadable.
518
+
519
+ Shape: {"interpolation", "domain", "effectLength", "points": [{"t","frame","v"}]}
520
+ `frame` is omitted when the effect length is unknown, because there is nothing
521
+ to normalize against and a fabricated frame number is worse than none.
522
+ """
523
+ points = _pointlist(varying)
524
+ if not points:
525
+ return None
526
+ span = None
527
+ if isinstance(length, int) and length > 1 and domain == _DOMAIN_EFFECT_SPAN:
528
+ span = length - 1
529
+ out = []
530
+ for p in points:
531
+ try:
532
+ t = float(p.time)
533
+ v = float(p.value)
534
+ except Exception:
535
+ # A point we cannot read makes the CURVE untrustworthy, not just the
536
+ # point — an animation with a hole in it would interpolate straight
537
+ # through the missing key. Refuse the whole parameter.
538
+ return None
539
+ point = {"t": round(t, 9), "v": round(v, 6)}
540
+ if domain == _DOMAIN_EFFECT_FRAMES:
541
+ point["frame"] = round(t, 6)
542
+ elif span:
543
+ point["frame"] = round(t * span, 6)
544
+ out.append(point)
545
+ curve = {"domain": domain, "points": out}
546
+ interp = _interpolation_name(varying)
547
+ if interp:
548
+ curve["interpolation"] = interp
549
+ if isinstance(length, int) and length > 0:
550
+ curve["effectLength"] = length
551
+ return curve
552
+
553
+
554
+ def _rate_from_offset_curve(curve):
555
+ """The play rate the source-offset curve ITSELF implies, or None.
556
+
557
+ Only returned when that curve is straight — every interior point on the line
558
+ through its endpoints, to within a tenth of a frame. A dense VARYING map is not
559
+ one rate and must not be averaged into one, so colinearity is the test that
560
+ separates the two rather than a flag we would have to trust.
561
+
562
+ 🚨 Why this exists: the declared `SpeedRatio` rational is the source span
563
+ TRUNCATED TO WHOLE FRAMES over the record length, and the curve is exact.
564
+ Measured on the fixture, 6 of 18 constant retimes disagree —
565
+
566
+ L=112 curve span 201.600 rate 1.80 declared 201/112 = 1.794643
567
+ L= 71 curve span 142.000 rate 2.00 declared 141/71 = 1.985915
568
+ L= 19 curve span 32.300 rate 1.70 declared 31/19 = 1.631579 ← 4%
569
+
570
+ — and every curve slope lands on a number an editor would actually dial (1.7,
571
+ 1.8, 2.0, 0.75) while every declared value is that number spoiled by a rounding.
572
+ A consumer handing 1.631579 to an operator to type in has handed them a visibly
573
+ wrong speed. Both numbers are reported under their own names; neither is
574
+ silently substituted for the other.
575
+ """
576
+ if not curve:
577
+ return None
578
+ points = curve.get("points") or []
579
+ if len(points) < 2:
580
+ return None
581
+ first, last = points[0], points[-1]
582
+ try:
583
+ run = float(last["frame"]) - float(first["frame"])
584
+ rise = float(last["v"]) - float(first["v"])
585
+ except (KeyError, TypeError, ValueError):
586
+ return None
587
+ if abs(run) < 1e-9:
588
+ return None
589
+ slope = rise / run
590
+ for p in points[1:-1]:
591
+ try:
592
+ expected = float(first["v"]) + (float(p["frame"]) - float(first["frame"])) * slope
593
+ except (KeyError, TypeError, ValueError):
594
+ return None
595
+ if abs(float(p["v"]) - expected) > 0.1:
596
+ return None # a real timewarp — no single rate describes it
597
+ return slope
598
+
599
+
438
600
  def _retime_fields(op_group):
439
601
  """Extra event fields recovered from a retime OperationGroup's parameters.
440
602
 
@@ -442,14 +604,34 @@ def _retime_fields(op_group):
442
604
  {"speedRatio": <play-rate float>, "speed": <int %>, "reverse": <bool>}
443
605
  {"speedVarying": True} — a variable-speed timewarp; no single honest number
444
606
  {} — nothing recoverable (flag-only, speed stays 100)
607
+
608
+ Any of those may additionally carry "speedCurve" — the retime's own keyframes.
609
+ A variable timewarp used to reach a consumer as the single word `speedVarying`,
610
+ which is enough to REFUSE the clip and never enough to rebuild it. Two curves
611
+ are emitted when present, under Avid's own parameter names:
612
+
613
+ playRate PARAM_SPEED_MAP_U — sparse play-rate keys (AvidCubicInterpolator
614
+ on every one measured), keys freely outside the trimmed range.
615
+ sourceOffset PARAM_SPEED_OFFSET_MAP_U — a DENSE source-position curve, linear,
616
+ spanning exactly 0..length (up to 387 points at half-frame steps
617
+ on the fixture). Its slope reproduces the constant ratios exactly
618
+ — 0.75 → 175.75 over 100 frames is the 1.75 the SpeedRatio
619
+ declares — so it is the same quantity measured a second way, and
620
+ for a VARYING timewarp it is the only complete description of
621
+ where each record frame reads from.
445
622
  """
446
623
  play = None
447
624
  speed_map = None
625
+ offset_map = None
626
+ length = _length(op_group)
448
627
  for param in _op_parameters(op_group):
449
628
  cls = type(param).__name__
450
629
  if cls == "VaryingValue":
451
- if _param_name(param) == "PARAM_SPEED_MAP_U":
630
+ name = _param_name(param)
631
+ if name == "PARAM_SPEED_MAP_U":
452
632
  speed_map = param
633
+ elif name == "PARAM_SPEED_OFFSET_MAP_U":
634
+ offset_map = param
453
635
  continue
454
636
  if cls != "ConstantValue":
455
637
  continue
@@ -469,22 +651,41 @@ def _retime_fields(op_group):
469
651
  continue
470
652
  if value:
471
653
  play = value # *_U family stores the play rate directly
654
+ curve = {}
655
+ for key, param in (("playRate", speed_map), ("sourceOffset", offset_map)):
656
+ if param is None:
657
+ continue
658
+ # Both live in the effect's own FRAME domain — measured, see _keyframes.
659
+ got = _keyframes(param, length=length, domain=_DOMAIN_EFFECT_FRAMES)
660
+ if got:
661
+ got["parameter"] = _param_name(param)
662
+ curve[key] = got
663
+ extra = {"speedCurve": curve} if curve else {}
664
+ measured = _rate_from_offset_curve(curve.get("sourceOffset"))
665
+ if measured is not None:
666
+ extra["speedRatioFromCurve"] = round(abs(measured), 6)
667
+ if measured < 0:
668
+ extra["reverseFromCurve"] = True
669
+
472
670
  if speed_map is not None:
473
671
  values = _pointlist_values(speed_map)
474
672
  if values is None:
475
673
  # A speed map we cannot read: we can neither call the speed constant
476
- # nor prove it varies — recover nothing rather than guess.
477
- return {}
674
+ # nor prove it varies — recover nothing rather than guess. The offset
675
+ # curve, if it read cleanly, still ships: it is an independent
676
+ # parameter and its unreadable sibling says nothing about it.
677
+ return extra
478
678
  if len(set(values)) > 1:
479
- return {"speedVarying": True}
679
+ return {"speedVarying": True, **extra}
480
680
  if play is None and values and values[0]:
481
681
  play = values[0] # a flat map's single value IS the constant play rate
482
682
  if not play:
483
- return {}
683
+ return extra
484
684
  return {
485
685
  "speedRatio": round(abs(play), 6),
486
686
  "speed": int(round(abs(play) * 100)),
487
687
  "reverse": play < 0,
688
+ **extra,
488
689
  }
489
690
 
490
691
 
@@ -518,6 +719,31 @@ def _retime_fields(op_group):
518
719
 
519
720
  _GEOMETRY_OPS = frozenset({"PaintResize_v2", "SpatialAdapter", "FlipHoriz_2"})
520
721
 
722
+ # ── Transform-bearing operations we do NOT interpret (U22) ────────────────────
723
+ # Widening _GEOMETRY_OPS is the wrong fix for these. Census of the same turnover:
724
+ #
725
+ # SBlend_v2 (18 groups over 12 clips) DVE_SCALE_X/Y_U 103, 123, 110→120 ·
726
+ # DVE_POS_X_U -60, -315 · DVE_ROT_Z_U 3, 1
727
+ # Stabilize_2 (5) DVE_SCALE_X/Y_U 102.52, 101.96 (a
728
+ # stabiliser's zoom-in) · DVE_POS_X_U 1.54
729
+ # MaskImage_2 (1), 2DMatteKey_2 (1) AFX_POS/AFX_SCALE
730
+ #
731
+ # 🚨 The same parameter NAME does not mean the same unit: SBlend's DVE_POS_X_U runs
732
+ # to -315 while Stabilize's runs to -0.92 on the same show. Two ops, one name, two
733
+ # units — so there is nothing here to normalize, and `scalePercent*` on these would
734
+ # be composed into the applied zoom by a consumer that has no way to know better.
735
+ #
736
+ # 🚨 And they cannot ride in `params` either: 2DMatteKey_2 carries AFX_POS_X_U 500.0,
737
+ # which is a name an existing consumer already has a CALIBRATED rule for — it would
738
+ # be silently applied as a ~960px reposition of a clip nobody repositioned. So the
739
+ # numbers travel under their own key, `rawParams`, which no consumer reads yet, next
740
+ # to `passthrough: true`. Reported, never silently dropped; never silently applied.
741
+ _PASSTHROUGH_GEOMETRY_OPS = frozenset({"SBlend_v2", "Stabilize_2", "MaskImage_2", "2DMatteKey_2"})
742
+
743
+ _PASSTHROUGH_PARAM_RE = re.compile(
744
+ r"(?:^|_)(?:POS|SCALE|CROP|ROT|SKEW|SIZE|OPACITY|ASPECT)(?:_|$)|CORNER_PIN|ENABLED"
745
+ )
746
+
521
747
  _GEOMETRY_SCALARS = frozenset(
522
748
  {
523
749
  "AFX_POS_X_U",
@@ -566,6 +792,52 @@ def _geometry_scalar(param):
566
792
  return _param_number(param), False
567
793
 
568
794
 
795
+ def _geometry_keyframes(param, length):
796
+ """The curve behind an ANIMATED geometry parameter, in the effect-span domain."""
797
+ return _keyframes(param, length=length, domain=_DOMAIN_EFFECT_SPAN)
798
+
799
+
800
+ def _passthrough_geometry(op_group, op_name):
801
+ """A transform op we do not interpret, reported rather than dropped (U22).
802
+
803
+ Everything geometry-shaped, under Avid's own names, in `rawParams` — plus the
804
+ curve for any of them that animates. No normalized field is emitted and no
805
+ `params` key is used, so this can be composed by nobody and misread by nobody.
806
+ Returns None when the group carries nothing geometry-shaped at all.
807
+ """
808
+ length = _length(op_group)
809
+ raw = {}
810
+ keyframes = {}
811
+ for param in _op_parameters(op_group):
812
+ name = _param_name(param)
813
+ if not name or not _PASSTHROUGH_PARAM_RE.search(name):
814
+ continue
815
+ if type(param).__name__ == "VaryingValue":
816
+ values = _pointlist_values(param)
817
+ if values is None:
818
+ continue
819
+ if len(set(values)) > 1:
820
+ curve = _keyframes(param, length=length, domain=_DOMAIN_EFFECT_SPAN)
821
+ if curve:
822
+ keyframes[name] = curve
823
+ continue
824
+ if values:
825
+ raw[name] = round(float(values[0]), 6)
826
+ continue
827
+ value = _param_number(param)
828
+ if value is not None:
829
+ raw[name] = value
830
+ if not raw and not keyframes:
831
+ return None
832
+ out = {"effect": op_name, "passthrough": True}
833
+ if raw:
834
+ out["rawParams"] = dict(sorted(raw.items()))
835
+ if keyframes:
836
+ out["keyframes"] = dict(sorted(keyframes.items()))
837
+ out["varying"] = sorted(keyframes)
838
+ return out
839
+
840
+
569
841
  def _geometry_fields(op_group, op_name):
570
842
  """Recovered geometry for one transform OperationGroup. See the census above."""
571
843
  scale = {}
@@ -573,6 +845,16 @@ def _geometry_fields(op_group, op_name):
573
845
  bools = {}
574
846
  rects = {}
575
847
  varying = set()
848
+ keyframes = {}
849
+ length = _length(op_group)
850
+
851
+ def note_varying(param, name):
852
+ """Name the animated parameter AND keep its curve."""
853
+ varying.add(name)
854
+ curve = _geometry_keyframes(param, length)
855
+ if curve:
856
+ keyframes[name] = curve
857
+
576
858
  for param in _op_parameters(op_group):
577
859
  name = _param_name(param)
578
860
  base, _, suffix = name.rpartition("_")
@@ -584,7 +866,7 @@ def _geometry_fields(op_group, op_name):
584
866
  if name in ("AFX_SCALE_X_U", "AFX_SCALE_Y_U"):
585
867
  value, is_varying = _geometry_scalar(param)
586
868
  if is_varying:
587
- varying.add(name)
869
+ note_varying(param, name)
588
870
  elif value is not None:
589
871
  scale[name] = value
590
872
  continue
@@ -596,7 +878,7 @@ def _geometry_fields(op_group, op_name):
596
878
  if name in _GEOMETRY_SCALARS:
597
879
  value, is_varying = _geometry_scalar(param)
598
880
  if is_varying:
599
- varying.add(name)
881
+ note_varying(param, name)
600
882
  elif value is not None:
601
883
  scalars[name] = value
602
884
  geometry = {"effect": op_name}
@@ -622,8 +904,12 @@ def _geometry_fields(op_group, op_name):
622
904
  if sizes.get(src) and sizes.get(framing) is not None:
623
905
  geometry[f"reformatScale{axis}"] = round(sizes[framing] / sizes[src], 6)
624
906
  if varying:
625
- # An animated transform. Named, never reduced to one number.
907
+ # An animated transform. Named, never reduced to one number — and, since
908
+ # U21, never reduced to the NAME either: `keyframes` carries the curve.
909
+ # `varying` stays exactly as it was, because consumers gate on it.
626
910
  geometry["varying"] = sorted(varying)
911
+ if keyframes:
912
+ geometry["keyframes"] = dict(sorted(keyframes.items()))
627
913
  params = dict(sorted({**scalars, **bools}.items()))
628
914
  if params:
629
915
  geometry["params"] = params
@@ -691,9 +977,21 @@ def _walk_segment(segment, *, track, fps, rec, state, depth=0, transition=None):
691
977
  # overlap it on the same track label. Callers already cannot assume events are
692
978
  # non-overlapping — parallel NestedScope layers overlap by construction.
693
979
  before = len(state["events"])
980
+ charges_before = state.get("_emptyEffectCharges", 0)
694
981
  for inp in getattr(segment, "segments", None) or []:
695
982
  _walk_segment(inp, track=track, fps=fps, rec=rec, state=state, depth=depth + 1, transition=transition)
696
983
  op_name = _operation_name(segment)
984
+
985
+ if op_name and declared > 0 and len(state["events"]) == before:
986
+ # Walked cleanly, emitted nothing, and still consumed record time. See the
987
+ # "effectsWithoutEvents" note in probe(). Only the INNERMOST such group is
988
+ # charged — an outer wrapper around an empty effect is empty for the same
989
+ # one reason, and charging both would report one title as two.
990
+ if state.get("_emptyEffectCharges", 0) == charges_before:
991
+ bucket = state.setdefault("effectsWithoutEvents", {})
992
+ bucket[op_name] = bucket.get(op_name, 0) + 1
993
+ state["_emptyEffectCharges"] = charges_before + 1
994
+
697
995
  if op_name in _GEOMETRY_OPS:
698
996
  # A transform effect. Clips are commonly wrapped in MORE than one (a
699
997
  # SpatialAdapter reformat inside a PaintResize, say), so geometry is a
@@ -703,6 +1001,14 @@ def _walk_segment(segment, *, track, fps, rec, state, depth=0, transition=None):
703
1001
  geometry = _geometry_fields(segment, op_name)
704
1002
  for ev in state["events"][before:]:
705
1003
  ev.setdefault("geometry", []).append(geometry)
1004
+ elif op_name in _PASSTHROUGH_GEOMETRY_OPS:
1005
+ # Carries a transform whose units we have not measured. It joins the same
1006
+ # ordered stack so its PLACE in the chain survives, marked passthrough so
1007
+ # no consumer composes it. See _PASSTHROUGH_GEOMETRY_OPS.
1008
+ geometry = _passthrough_geometry(segment, op_name)
1009
+ if geometry:
1010
+ for ev in state["events"][before:]:
1011
+ ev.setdefault("geometry", []).append(geometry)
706
1012
  if op_name and ("speed" in op_name.lower() or "motion" in op_name.lower()):
707
1013
  # A retime. Its ratio is recoverable from the group's PARAMETERS (see
708
1014
  # _retime_fields): a constant ratio updates speed/speedRatio so
@@ -991,7 +1297,7 @@ def probe(path):
991
1297
  except Exception:
992
1298
  name = None
993
1299
  # `idx` is monotonic across the WHOLE mob, every slot and every nested layer.
994
- state = {"idx": 1, "events": [], "unhandled": {}}
1300
+ state = {"idx": 1, "events": [], "unhandled": {}, "effectsWithoutEvents": {}}
995
1301
  edit_fps = None
996
1302
  for slot in getattr(mob, "slots", []) or []:
997
1303
  seg = getattr(slot, "segment", None)
@@ -1024,6 +1330,16 @@ def probe(path):
1024
1330
  # Component classes we could not model, by name+count. Empty {} means
1025
1331
  # a structurally complete read; non-empty means events are INCOMPLETE.
1026
1332
  "unhandled": dict(sorted(state["unhandled"].items())),
1333
+ # 🚨 Effects that OCCUPY RECORD TIME and produce no event (U23).
1334
+ # `unhandled` cannot see these: it counts component classes the
1335
+ # walker does not model, and these are modeled fine — an
1336
+ # OperationGroup is walked, its inputs are walked, and they simply
1337
+ # contain no SourceClip. On the reference turnover `unhandled` reads
1338
+ # {} — a structurally complete parse — while 29 SubCap title effects
1339
+ # occupy real record time and reach the consumer as nothing at all.
1340
+ # A conform that silently loses 29 titles looks exactly like a
1341
+ # conform that had none. Counted by operation name so it cannot.
1342
+ "effectsWithoutEvents": dict(sorted(state.get("effectsWithoutEvents", {}).items())),
1027
1343
  "events": events,
1028
1344
  }
1029
1345
  )
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ if not logging.getLogger().handlers:
87
87
  handlers=[logging.StreamHandler()],
88
88
  )
89
89
 
90
- VERSION = "2.89.0"
90
+ VERSION = "2.91.0"
91
91
  logger = logging.getLogger("davinci-resolve-mcp")
92
92
  logger.info(f"Starting DaVinci Resolve MCP Server v{VERSION}")
93
93
  logger.info(f"Detected platform: {get_platform()}")
package/src/server.py CHANGED
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Usage:
11
11
  python src/server.py --full # Start the 353-tool granular server instead
12
12
  """
13
13
 
14
- VERSION = "2.89.0"
14
+ VERSION = "2.91.0"
15
15
 
16
16
  import base64
17
17
  import os
@@ -2992,18 +2992,31 @@ def _safe_media_pool_item_name(mpi):
2992
2992
  return None
2993
2993
 
2994
2994
 
2995
- def _timeline_item_source_start(item):
2995
+ def _timeline_item_source_start_with_origin(item):
2996
+ """(source_start, origin) — which reader the frame number came from.
2997
+
2998
+ The origin matters because the two readers do not agree on units. On an
2999
+ AUDIO item, measured on Studio 21.0.3.7 across 12 items of one WAV,
3000
+ GetSourceStartFrame advances at exactly 24.000 fps against the item's own
3001
+ GetSourceStartTime (the media's rate) while GetLeftOffset advances at 29.970
3002
+ — the TIMELINE rate. Same edit point, different frame spaces. Callers that
3003
+ attach a rate to the number must know which reader produced it.
3004
+ """
2996
3005
  if _has_method(item, "GetSourceStartFrame"):
2997
3006
  try:
2998
3007
  source_start = _frame_int(item.GetSourceStartFrame())
2999
3008
  if source_start is not None:
3000
- return source_start
3009
+ return source_start, "GetSourceStartFrame"
3001
3010
  except Exception:
3002
3011
  pass
3003
3012
  try:
3004
- return _frame_int(item.GetLeftOffset())
3013
+ return _frame_int(item.GetLeftOffset()), "GetLeftOffset"
3005
3014
  except Exception:
3006
- return None
3015
+ return None, None
3016
+
3017
+
3018
+ def _timeline_item_source_start(item):
3019
+ return _timeline_item_source_start_with_origin(item)[0]
3007
3020
 
3008
3021
 
3009
3022
  def _timeline_item_media_pool_item(item):
@@ -3039,7 +3052,103 @@ def _timeline_item_track_info(item):
3039
3052
  return None, _err("invalid source track index")
3040
3053
 
3041
3054
 
3042
- def _timeline_item_summary(item, track_info=None):
3055
+ def _media_item_source_fps(media_pool_item, clip_properties=None):
3056
+ """The frame rate a media-pool item's SOURCE frames are counted in.
3057
+
3058
+ Source frames (GetSourceStartFrame / GetLeftOffset) are expressed in the
3059
+ MEDIA's own rate, never the timeline's — and a WAV carries no native rate,
3060
+ so Resolve reports 24 for it. Read the rate instead of assuming the
3061
+ timeline's: at 29.97 a WAV offset lands minutes away from the real position
3062
+ in the file, and nothing errors (see the api_truth entry "GetSourceStartFrame
3063
+ on an AUDIO item"). Returns None when the rate cannot be read, so callers
3064
+ surface "unknown" rather than a guess.
3065
+
3066
+ Pass ``clip_properties`` when the caller already holds the item's property
3067
+ dict — the probe path does, so this costs it no extra bridge call.
3068
+ """
3069
+ value = None
3070
+ if isinstance(clip_properties, dict):
3071
+ value = clip_properties.get("FPS")
3072
+ if value in (None, "") and media_pool_item is not None:
3073
+ try:
3074
+ value = media_pool_item.GetClipProperty("FPS")
3075
+ except Exception:
3076
+ value = None
3077
+ if isinstance(value, dict): # GetClipProperty("") returns the whole map
3078
+ value = value.get("FPS")
3079
+ try:
3080
+ fps = float(value)
3081
+ except (TypeError, ValueError):
3082
+ return None
3083
+ return fps if fps > 0 else None
3084
+
3085
+
3086
+ def _source_frames_to_seconds(frames, fps):
3087
+ """Source frames -> seconds into the file, or None when either is unknown."""
3088
+ if frames is None or not fps:
3089
+ return None
3090
+ return round(frames / fps, 3)
3091
+
3092
+
3093
+ def _timeline_item_source_time(item, method):
3094
+ """Resolve's own source-time reader (GetSourceStartTime/GetSourceEndTime).
3095
+
3096
+ Seconds into the source file, read directly — no rate inference, so it is
3097
+ the authoritative answer whenever the build exposes it. None when the
3098
+ method is absent or unreadable, leaving the caller to fall back to
3099
+ frames / source_fps.
3100
+ """
3101
+ if not _has_method(item, method):
3102
+ return None
3103
+ try:
3104
+ value = getattr(item, method)()
3105
+ except Exception:
3106
+ return None
3107
+ try:
3108
+ seconds = float(value)
3109
+ except (TypeError, ValueError):
3110
+ return None
3111
+ return round(seconds, 3)
3112
+
3113
+
3114
+ def _timeline_item_source_end_frame(item):
3115
+ """The item's SOURCE-space end frame, from Resolve's own reader.
3116
+
3117
+ Distinct from the ``source_end`` this module derives as
3118
+ ``source_start + duration``: that duration is a TIMELINE duration
3119
+ (GetDuration), so the sum mixes units the moment the media rate differs
3120
+ from the timeline's — always, for a WAV. Only a genuine source-space frame
3121
+ may be divided by source_fps.
3122
+ """
3123
+ if not _has_method(item, "GetSourceEndFrame"):
3124
+ return None
3125
+ try:
3126
+ return _frame_int(item.GetSourceEndFrame())
3127
+ except Exception:
3128
+ return None
3129
+
3130
+
3131
+ def _timeline_item_source_seconds(item, source_start, source_end, source_fps):
3132
+ """(start_seconds, end_seconds) into the source file, or None each.
3133
+
3134
+ Prefers Resolve's second-readers, then a source-space frame divided by the
3135
+ media rate. The derived ``source_end`` is deliberately NOT a fallback: it
3136
+ is ``source_start + timeline_duration``, so on a 24 fps WAV in a 29.97 fps
3137
+ timeline it overstates the clip's span by 25% (18.1 s reported for a
3138
+ 14.5 s clip). An unknown end reads as unknown.
3139
+ """
3140
+ start_seconds = _timeline_item_source_time(item, "GetSourceStartTime")
3141
+ if start_seconds is None:
3142
+ start_seconds = _source_frames_to_seconds(source_start, source_fps)
3143
+ end_seconds = _timeline_item_source_time(item, "GetSourceEndTime")
3144
+ if end_seconds is None:
3145
+ end_seconds = _source_frames_to_seconds(
3146
+ _timeline_item_source_end_frame(item), source_fps)
3147
+ return start_seconds, end_seconds
3148
+
3149
+
3150
+ def _timeline_item_summary(item, track_info=None, *, media_pool_item=None,
3151
+ clip_properties=None):
3043
3152
  if not item:
3044
3153
  return None
3045
3154
  start = end = duration = source_start = source_end = None
@@ -3049,12 +3158,23 @@ def _timeline_item_summary(item, track_info=None):
3049
3158
  except Exception:
3050
3159
  pass
3051
3160
  duration = _timeline_item_duration(item, start, end)
3052
- source_start = _timeline_item_source_start(item)
3161
+ source_start, source_start_origin = _timeline_item_source_start_with_origin(item)
3053
3162
  if source_start is not None and duration is not None:
3054
3163
  source_end = source_start + duration
3055
3164
  if track_info is None:
3056
3165
  track_info, _ = _timeline_item_track_info(item)
3057
- media_pool_item = _timeline_item_media_pool_item(item)
3166
+ if media_pool_item is None:
3167
+ media_pool_item = _timeline_item_media_pool_item(item)
3168
+ # source_* are in the MEDIA's frame rate; report it and the derived seconds
3169
+ # so a caller never has to guess which rate the frame numbers are in.
3170
+ source_fps = _media_item_source_fps(media_pool_item, clip_properties)
3171
+ if source_start_origin == "GetLeftOffset" and (track_info or (None,))[0] == "audio":
3172
+ # GetLeftOffset counts an audio item in TIMELINE frames, so pairing it
3173
+ # with the media rate would produce a confidently wrong number. Report
3174
+ # the frame and leave the rate unknown rather than convert it wrong.
3175
+ source_fps = None
3176
+ source_start_seconds, source_end_seconds = _timeline_item_source_seconds(
3177
+ item, source_start, source_end, source_fps)
3058
3178
  summary = {
3059
3179
  "timeline_item_id": _safe_timeline_item_id(item),
3060
3180
  "name": _safe_timeline_item_name(item),
@@ -3064,7 +3184,13 @@ def _timeline_item_summary(item, track_info=None):
3064
3184
  "end": end,
3065
3185
  "duration": duration,
3066
3186
  "source_start": source_start,
3187
+ # NOTE: derived as source_start + TIMELINE duration, so it is unit-mixed
3188
+ # whenever source_fps != the timeline rate. Kept for compatibility; use
3189
+ # source_end_seconds, which is read from source space, for real time.
3067
3190
  "source_end": source_end,
3191
+ "source_fps": source_fps,
3192
+ "source_start_seconds": source_start_seconds,
3193
+ "source_end_seconds": source_end_seconds,
3068
3194
  "media_pool_item_id": _safe_media_pool_item_id(media_pool_item),
3069
3195
  "media_pool_item_name": _safe_media_pool_item_name(media_pool_item),
3070
3196
  }
@@ -5008,8 +5134,9 @@ def _conform_capabilities():
5008
5134
 
5009
5135
 
5010
5136
  def _timeline_item_conform_summary(item, track_type: str, track_index: int, item_index: int):
5011
- summary = _timeline_item_summary(item, (track_type, track_index)) or {}
5012
- summary["item_index"] = item_index
5137
+ # Fetch the media-pool item and its properties FIRST, then hand both to the
5138
+ # summary: it needs the 'FPS' property for source_fps, and this way the probe
5139
+ # pays for one GetMediaPoolItem/GetClipProperty pair per item, not two.
5013
5140
  media_pool_item = _timeline_item_media_pool_item(item)
5014
5141
  file_path = None
5015
5142
  clip_properties = None
@@ -5019,12 +5146,17 @@ def _timeline_item_conform_summary(item, track_type: str, track_index: int, item
5019
5146
  clip_properties = _ser(media_pool_item.GetClipProperty(""))
5020
5147
  except Exception:
5021
5148
  clip_properties = None
5022
- if isinstance(clip_properties, dict):
5023
- file_path = clip_properties.get("File Path") or clip_properties.get("FilePath")
5024
- for key in ("Status", "Media Status", "Offline", "Online Status"):
5025
- if key in clip_properties:
5026
- media_status = clip_properties.get(key)
5027
- break
5149
+ summary = _timeline_item_summary(
5150
+ item, (track_type, track_index),
5151
+ media_pool_item=media_pool_item, clip_properties=clip_properties,
5152
+ ) or {}
5153
+ summary["item_index"] = item_index
5154
+ if isinstance(clip_properties, dict):
5155
+ file_path = clip_properties.get("File Path") or clip_properties.get("FilePath")
5156
+ for key in ("Status", "Media Status", "Offline", "Online Status"):
5157
+ if key in clip_properties:
5158
+ media_status = clip_properties.get(key)
5159
+ break
5028
5160
  summary["file_path"] = file_path
5029
5161
  summary["file_exists"] = bool(file_path and os.path.exists(str(file_path)))
5030
5162
  summary["media_status"] = media_status
@@ -5409,7 +5541,8 @@ def _timeline_apply_look_to_items(tl, p: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
5409
5541
  def _variant_item_placement(item) -> Dict[str, Any]:
5410
5542
  """Report an appended item's placed frame positions in both frame spaces.
5411
5543
  record_* are TIMELINE frames (GetStart/GetEnd/GetDuration); source_start is
5412
- a SOURCE frame."""
5544
+ a SOURCE frame, counted in source_fps — the MEDIA's rate, which for a WAV is
5545
+ 24 and not the timeline's."""
5413
5546
  def _read(method):
5414
5547
  fn = getattr(item, method, None)
5415
5548
  if not callable(fn):
@@ -5423,11 +5556,16 @@ def _variant_item_placement(item) -> Dict[str, Any]:
5423
5556
  duration = _read("GetDuration")
5424
5557
  if duration is None and record_start is not None and record_end is not None:
5425
5558
  duration = record_end - record_start
5559
+ source_start = _timeline_item_source_start(item)
5560
+ source_fps = _media_item_source_fps(_timeline_item_media_pool_item(item))
5561
+ source_start_seconds, _ = _timeline_item_source_seconds(item, source_start, None, source_fps)
5426
5562
  return {
5427
5563
  "record_start": record_start,
5428
5564
  "record_end": record_end,
5429
5565
  "duration": duration,
5430
- "source_start": _timeline_item_source_start(item),
5566
+ "source_start": source_start,
5567
+ "source_fps": source_fps,
5568
+ "source_start_seconds": source_start_seconds,
5431
5569
  }
5432
5570
 
5433
5571
 
@@ -21393,7 +21531,10 @@ def timeline(action: str, params: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None) -> Dict[str,
21393
21531
  Frame numbers are TIMELINE/record frames (position on the timeline) unless an action
21394
21532
  says SOURCE. Source frames are positions within a media-pool clip's own media:
21395
21533
  create_variant_from_ranges takes SOURCE start_frame/end_frame; extract_source_frame_ranges
21396
- and source_range_report return SOURCE ranges.
21534
+ and source_range_report return SOURCE ranges. A SOURCE frame is counted in the MEDIA's own
21535
+ frame rate, not the timeline's: an AUDIO item's source_start/source_end read back in the
21536
+ file's rate, and a WAV (no native rate) defaults to 24 fps, so converting one at the timeline
21537
+ rate is silently wrong by minutes (resolve_control api_truth "GetSourceStartFrame").
21397
21538
 
21398
21539
  Actions:
21399
21540
  list() -> {timelines}
@@ -21449,6 +21590,8 @@ def timeline(action: str, params: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None) -> Dict[str,
21449
21590
  nothing moves. (frames here are TIMELINE/record frames.)
21450
21591
  story_spine_report() -> {beats, track_summaries, source_ranges, audio_spine}
21451
21592
  create_variant_from_ranges(name, ranges, markers?, cdl?, dry_run?) -> {success, id, items}
21593
+ ranges[] take track_type? (video|audio) and track_index? (1-based, within the
21594
+ track_type, default 1); missing tracks are added, so V2/V3 multicam angles survive.
21452
21595
  # example: action_help(name='<action_name>')
21453
21596
  bulk_set_item_properties(ops, dry_run?, readback?) -> {results, op_count}
21454
21597
  # example: action_help(name='<action_name>')
@@ -21511,6 +21654,14 @@ def timeline(action: str, params: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None) -> Dict[str,
21511
21654
  Default handles=24, gap_max=30. Use handles=0 for gap-only auto handles.
21512
21655
  conform_capabilities() -> {supported, partially_supported, unsupported, export_aliases}
21513
21656
  probe_timeline_structure(track_types?, include_markers?, include_clip_properties?) -> {tracks, markers}
21657
+ Each item reports source_start in the MEDIA's frame rate, the source_fps it is
21658
+ counted in, and source_start_seconds/source_end_seconds. Use those seconds — a
21659
+ WAV counts at 24 fps on any timeline, so dividing by the timeline rate is wrong
21660
+ by minutes. source_fps is null when the rate could not be read; treat the frames
21661
+ as unitless then, do not assume the timeline's. source_end is derived as
21662
+ source_start + TIMELINE duration, so it is unit-mixed when the rates differ —
21663
+ the seconds come from Resolve's own source-time readers instead, and read null
21664
+ rather than convert the derived value.
21514
21665
  detect_gaps_overlaps(track_types?, min_gap?) -> {gaps, overlaps}
21515
21666
  source_range_report(handles?, merge?) -> {ranges, occurrences}
21516
21667
  export_timeline_checked(path, format?|type?, subtype?, require_temp_path?, dry_run?, background?) -> {success, path, size | job_id}
@@ -23334,9 +23485,16 @@ _ACTION_HELP: Dict[str, Dict[str, Dict[str, Any]]] = {
23334
23485
  "summary": "Build a variant timeline from N source ranges. Video-only unless ranges include track_type='audio'. Source-safe; dry_run validates clip ids and frame ranges.",
23335
23486
  "params": (
23336
23487
  "name, ranges: [{clip_id|media_pool_item_id, start_frame, end_frame, "
23337
- "record_frame?, track_type?}], pack?, markers?, cdl?, dry_run? — clip_id is a "
23488
+ "record_frame?, track_type?, track_index?}], pack?, markers?, cdl?, dry_run? — clip_id is a "
23338
23489
  "media-pool item id (not a timeline-item id); start_frame/end_frame are SOURCE "
23339
23490
  "frames, end_frame exclusive (source duration = end_frame - start_frame). "
23491
+ "track_index is the 1-based destination track WITHIN track_type (default 1); the "
23492
+ "variant is created with enough video/audio tracks to cover the highest index used, "
23493
+ "so multicam angles can be rebuilt onto V2/V3 instead of collapsing onto V1. "
23494
+ "SOURCE frames are counted in the MEDIA's frame rate, not the timeline's — an audio "
23495
+ "item's read back as 24 fps for a WAV (api_truth \"GetSourceStartFrame on an AUDIO "
23496
+ "item\"); pass them in that space, placement converts and items[].duration_delta "
23497
+ "reports the conversion. "
23340
23498
  "pack=true butts clips together at the end of each track (gap-free, ignores record_frame)"
23341
23499
  ),
23342
23500
  "returns": "{success, id, items} — items[].placed = placed frames; items[].range = the requested range",
@@ -23344,8 +23502,11 @@ _ACTION_HELP: Dict[str, Dict[str, Dict[str, Any]]] = {
23344
23502
  'timeline(action="create_variant_from_ranges", params={\n'
23345
23503
  ' "name": "v02_tighter_act1",\n'
23346
23504
  ' "ranges": [\n'
23347
- ' {"clip_id": "<media-pool-item-id>", "start_frame": 1200, "end_frame": 1320},\n'
23348
- ' {"clip_id": "<media-pool-item-id>", "start_frame": 1500, "end_frame": 1600}\n'
23505
+ ' {"clip_id": "<cam1-id>", "start_frame": 1200, "end_frame": 1320},\n'
23506
+ ' {"clip_id": "<cam3-id>", "start_frame": 1500, "end_frame": 1600,\n'
23507
+ ' "track_index": 2},\n'
23508
+ ' {"clip_id": "<wav-id>", "track_type": "audio", "track_index": 1,\n'
23509
+ ' "start_frame": 56871, "end_frame": 57591} # 24 fps source frames\n'
23349
23510
  ' ],\n'
23350
23511
  ' "dry_run": True\n'
23351
23512
  '})'
@@ -660,6 +660,92 @@ API_TRUTH: List[Dict[str, Any]] = [
660
660
  "tags": ["off-by-one", "unreliable-return", "timeline", "conform", "verify"],
661
661
  "submit": "bug",
662
662
  },
663
+ {
664
+ "symbol": "TimelineItem.GetSourceStartFrame on an AUDIO item (media-rate frames; 24 fps for WAV)",
665
+ "object": "TimelineItem",
666
+ "signature": "() -> int # source frame, counted in the MEDIA's frame rate",
667
+ "reality": "The value is counted in the source MEDIA's own frame rate, not "
668
+ "the timeline's — and a WAV carries no frame rate, so Resolve "
669
+ "falls back to 24 fps. Reading it at the timeline rate lands "
670
+ "minutes away from the real position in the file. Verified live "
671
+ "on Studio 21.0.3.7 (2026-08-09, 29.97 fps timeline): a "
672
+ "ZOOM0028.WAV item reported source_start 56871, which is "
673
+ "56871 / 24 = 2369.6 s into the file, NOT the 1897.6 s a 29.97 "
674
+ "fps reading gives — a 471.9 s (7 min 52 s) error. Nothing looks "
675
+ "wrong, because timeline probe_timeline_structure derives "
676
+ "source_end as source_start + timeline_duration: the start/end "
677
+ "pair stays internally consistent whatever rate you assume. "
678
+ "VIDEO items are NOT affected — two 29.97 fps items "
679
+ "(KR020007.MOV, IMG_0001.mov) on the same timeline reported "
680
+ "source frames in their own, matching rate, confirmed against "
681
+ "ffprobe durations and span arithmetic. This is the read-side "
682
+ "twin of the AppendToTimeline mixed-fps entry below: that one is "
683
+ "about writing source frames whose rate differs from the "
684
+ "timeline's, this one about reading them back and not knowing "
685
+ "which rate they are in. The rate was pinned by regression, "
686
+ "not assumed: across 12 items of the same WAV, "
687
+ "GetSourceStartFrame advances at 24.000 fps against the item's "
688
+ "own GetSourceStartTime (24.0000/24.0007/23.9995 over spans up "
689
+ "to 22 minutes). The same measurement exposed a second unit "
690
+ "trap: on an AUDIO item GetLeftOffset advances at 29.970 — the "
691
+ "TIMELINE rate — so the two readers describe the same edit "
692
+ "point in DIFFERENT frame spaces (60687 vs 75784 for one "
693
+ "item). On video they share the source space. Caveat on the "
694
+ "absolute zero: Resolve's model of this file is 133003 frames "
695
+ "(Duration 01:32:21:19 at 24 fps = 5541.79 s) while its true "
696
+ "PCM length is 266264768 samples / 48 kHz = 5547.18 s, a 0.097% "
697
+ "difference we have not explained — so frames/24 is exact in "
698
+ "Resolve's source-time space, which is the space every other "
699
+ "Resolve call uses, but may sit ~2 s off the byte position in "
700
+ "a 40-minute-deep offset. Re-confirmed on Studio 19.1.3.7 "
701
+ "(2026-08-10) with synthetic media, so this is not a 21.x "
702
+ "regression: a 300 s 48 kHz WAV reports FPS 24, and appending "
703
+ "source frames 4800-5235 of it to a 29.97 fps timeline yields "
704
+ "a timeline duration of 543 (= 435 x 29.97/24), which is the "
705
+ "conversion happening in the open. The same run measured the "
706
+ "cost of the derived end: source_end came back 5343 "
707
+ "(4800 + 543) where the true source end is 5235, so "
708
+ "source_end / 24 reports 222.625 s against a real 218.133 s "
709
+ "from GetSourceEndTime — 4.49 s out, on a clip only 18.1 s "
710
+ "long. GetSourceStartTime read exactly 200.0 s (= 4800/24) on "
711
+ "the same item. The matching VIDEO item (29.97 source in a "
712
+ "29.97 timeline) was unaffected in both: 24.524 s read against "
713
+ "24.525 s derived. Both second-readers exist on 19.1.3.7, so "
714
+ "the GetSourceEndFrame fallback below is for builds older "
715
+ "still.",
716
+ "recommended": "Convert an audio item's source frames with the MEDIA's rate, "
717
+ "never the timeline's: seconds = source_start / media_fps, "
718
+ "treating a WAV (or any container with no native rate) as 24 "
719
+ "fps. Take media_fps from the media-pool item's 'FPS' clip "
720
+ "property or from ffprobe — do not infer it from the "
721
+ "timeline. Feed the frames back to timeline "
722
+ "create_variant_from_ranges in the same media-rate space you "
723
+ "read them in; it converts on placement and reports the "
724
+ "conversion in items[].duration_delta. The separate "
725
+ "GetSourceStartFrame entry above (off-by-one vs "
726
+ "GetLeftOffset) applies on top of this — the rate question "
727
+ "is which unit the number is in, not whether it is exact. "
728
+ "Mitigated in-process: _timeline_item_summary now emits "
729
+ "source_fps and source_start_seconds/source_end_seconds "
730
+ "beside the frames, so the number always arrives with its "
731
+ "unit; on the GetLeftOffset fallback for an audio item it "
732
+ "reports the rate as unknown rather than converting a "
733
+ "timeline-frame value at the media rate. Note which "
734
+ "number may be converted: source_end in the same summary "
735
+ "is derived as source_start + TIMELINE duration, so on "
736
+ "this WAV it adds 435 frames of 29.97 record time to a 24 "
737
+ "fps source frame and dividing THAT by 24 reports an "
738
+ "18.125 s span for a 14.515 s clip. The seconds therefore "
739
+ "come from GetSourceStartTime/GetSourceEndTime — which "
740
+ "answer in seconds with no rate inference at all — then "
741
+ "from GetSourceEndFrame / media_fps, and read null rather "
742
+ "than convert the derived source_end.",
743
+ "tags": ["timeline", "audio", "wav", "frame-rate", "mixed-fps",
744
+ "silent-failure", "readback"],
745
+ "submit": "bug",
746
+ "mitigation": ["_media_item_source_fps", "_source_frames_to_seconds",
747
+ "_timeline_item_source_seconds"],
748
+ },
663
749
  {
664
750
  "symbol": "Razor / blade / split a timeline item",
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  "object": "Timeline / TimelineItem",