Send a DaVinci Resolve cut to your producer without the media

When a producer's notes arrive as a list, you do the interpreting. With a review cut they show you. They rearrange and shorten the shots on the video you rendered, without Resolve and without your media, and you import the version you accept back into Resolve as a .drp with their notes as timeline markers.

What your producer does

They open a link with your render and the shots in a row. They can move a shot, shorten it, remove it, comment at a moment, or add a text card such as "shot of dog" where footage doesn't exist yet. They press Send when they're done. Shots can't grow past what you rendered; if they need more, they add a card.

What you do

1. Export the project. In the Project Manager, right-click the project and choose Export Project to save a .drp.
2. Run the free check. Open the editor, add the .drp, pick the timeline and run the check.
3. Share it with your render. Share the timeline, upload the review video you rendered from it (matching frame count and rate, up to 250 MiB and ten minutes) and invite your producer as a commenter.
4. Compare and accept. Compare your producer's version with your cut and merge what you want.
5. Import the result. Export the edited .drp and bring it in with Import Project in the Project Manager. Check the cut against your media.

What comes back

Your timeline with the accepted cuts, still pointing at your media, with grades, effects and other clips left as they were. Comments and accepted proposals become timeline markers. Resolve keeps one timeline marker per frame, so notes on the same frame arrive together in one marker. A card after the last shot becomes a marker covering that time, because a Resolve timeline ends at its last clip. Static track faders are kept, and a clip you add or move to another track plays at the level you heard in the review cut.

What it won't write back yet

New titles typed in the browser, speed changes through effects or nests, and sources longer than ten minutes. The free check names these before you pay.

FAQ

Why are notes on the same frame combined? Resolve keeps one timeline marker per frame, so notes that land on the same frame arrive together in one marker.

Does it keep my Fairlight levels? Static track faders are kept, and a clip you add or move to another track plays at the level you heard in the review cut.

What about a card after the last shot? Resolve ends a timeline at its last clip, so the card arrives as a black Solid Color clip of the card's length, with a marker carrying the text. A cut made only of cards works the same way.