OttoEdit — AI Video Editor for DaVinci Resolve

Cut it to the songKeep the clean takesSpeed ramp into the jumpGive it a film lookMake it verticalCaptions, bold and yellowSwap the last shotWarmer, less contrastSlow-mo on the wheelieWhy is there no sound in my export?

Your first edit in three steps.

No templates to learn and no settings to find. If you can describe it, Otto can cut it.

Step 1

Open your project

Otto's window floats beside Resolve and watches every clip once, sound included. It remembers them after that.

Step 2

Say what you want

Type it the way you'd text an editor. Otto shows its plan first, and asks one question if something's unclear.

Step 3

Give notes

"Swap the last shot." "Less glow." Only what you name changes, until the edit is yours.

One edit, step by step.

Build it the way an editor would: the cut first, then motion, words, colour and sound. Otto shows you each step and changes only what you ask for.

OTTOEDITBETAListening

Hey, what are we making today?

Make a 30-second reel of my bike clips, cut to The Long Road

✓ Watched 7 clips, sound included✓ More footage than 30 seconds holds, so not every clip makes itListening to the guitar, drums and bass…

OTTOEDITBETACut's ready

Make a 30-second reel of my bike clips, cut to The Long Road

Thought for 6s ▾

Here’s how I’d cut it:
A desert ride that opens, builds and peaks · 30 s, 7 shots

0:00–0:06 — The wheelie, the hook
0:06–0:16 — Desert rush, the rider up close
0:16–0:24 — Wheel and drone, through the solo
0:24–0:30 — Tunnel into the open road

Want me to lay it like this, or change something first?Go

OTTOEDITBETAOn the timeline

Here’s how I’d cut it: 30 s, 7 shots

TimelineOttoEdit Cut01:00:00:00

01:00:00:0001:00:10:0001:00:20:00

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The Long Road.mp3

Done — the cut is on the timeline: 7 shots, 30 seconds, cut to The Long Road.
You can swap any shot.

OTTOEDITBETAReady

Done — the cut is on the timeline: 7 shots, 30 seconds, cut to The Long Road. You can swap any shot.

Speed ramp into the wheelie

Here are six ramps landing on "the wheelie" for shot 1.

Tap one to see its curve.

Race into slow

Fast-slow-fast

One burst

OTTOEDITBETAReady

Here are six ramps landing on "the wheelie" for shot 1. Tap one to see its curve.

Add captions

Here are 14 caption looks on your frame (scroll for more).

Pick one, or tell me what to change.

Italic Duo

Corner Tuck

Big Headline

Golden Script

14 to choose from, scroll for more

Lay captionsAdjust

Like that one, but green

Here it is with that change. Pick it, or tell me what else.

Big Headline

Lay captionsAdjust

OTTOEDITBETAReady

Here are 14 caption looks on your frame (scroll for more). Pick one, or tell me what to change.

Check my colours

Here's what I found:

Shot 2 — dark, face in shadow. Fix: brighter, a little warmer
Shot 5 — a bit blue. Fix: warmer

Want me to fix these? Say yes, or name the shots to leave alone.

Yes. Then make it cinematic

OTTOEDITBETAReady

Here's what I found:

Add sound design

Four sounds: a whoosh on the cut at 0:06, a riser into the solo, a hit on the beat at 0:18, a whoosh to close. Add them?

Yes

Done — all 4 sound effects are on, on audio track 3. Have a listen. Louder, softer, or move one? Just say.

OTTOEDITBETAOn the timeline

Done — all 4 sound effects are on, on audio track 3. Have a listen. Louder, softer, or move one? Just say.

Make a vertical version for Reels

Done — the cut is on the timeline: 7 shots, 30 seconds, vertical.
I zoomed each shot in to fill the tall frame.

Export

1Watch
It watches and listens before it touches anything.

Every clip with its sound, every word that's said, and every layer of the song. Otto remembers it all, so it never watches the same clip twice.
- Finds the clean take and the shot that works
- Flags shaky, blurry and spoiled moments
- Hears the drums, bass, vocal and hits in your song
2Plan
It shows you the plan first.

Before anything lands on your timeline, Otto says what it'll do and where. Say go, or change it.
- Your markers and your script are followed exactly
- One question when something's unclear, never a guess
- Proposed markers in its own colour, easy to clear
3Cut
The cut, in real Resolve.

Real clips on real tracks, on Otto's own timeline beside yours.
- Rough cuts from a pile of clips
- Talking heads: clean takes, false starts gone
- Cuts on the beat, the drums or the vocal
- B-roll on the word it's about
- Sound that leads the picture into a cut
- "Make it 15 seconds" shortens it without losing the story
4Motion
Ramps, transitions and moves, shaped to the moment.

Name the moment. Otto finds it in your footage and offers versions drawn on your own frames.
- Speed ramps and slow motion
- Thirteen transitions, from a clean fade to a whip or a light leak
- Push in, pull out, or punch in on a single word
- Blur, glow, darker edges, black and white, a soft spotlight
5Words
Captions designed for this video.

Not a template. Otto designs caption looks for your footage, timed to every word, and keeps them editable.
- Mix and match: tap Adjust for the colour wheel, glow, fonts, and how words come in and go out. Or just say the change
- Words that pop, slide, rise or type on as they're said
- Titles and on-screen text where you want them
- Text that follows a moving subject
6Colour
Every shot checked, then the look.

Like a colourist: convert, correct, then grade. Each step waits for your yes.
- Log footage converted to normal colour first
- Faces, white balance and contrast fixed shot by shot
- Describe a feel and it suggests two to four looks, with reasons
- Its 8 looks or your own LUTs, previewed on your footage
- "A bit more contrast" turns just that knob
7Sound
Sound design, with your yes.

Otto lists the sounds it'd use and where. Nothing goes in until you agree.
- Whooshes on cuts, risers into drops, hits on beats
- Placed to the frame, under the music
8Deliver
Every format, without the busywork.

A vertical version that follows the subject, and an export set up for where it's going.
- Wide to 9:16, following the subject
- Exports for Reels, Shorts and YouTube
- A quick preview before the full render

Everything it reaches for.

The same library that's in the app. Every look is shown on your own footage. Add your own LUTs and sounds.

14 caption looks. Mix and match: swap any look's font, colour, glow or how the words come in. Nothing goes on until you tap.

6 title looks. Ask for a title and it shows them on your frame.

6 speed ramp shapes, each fitted to the moment you name. Tap one and it's on the timeline, or drag its curve to make it yours.

Race into slowpops up to speed, lands soft in slow motion on the moment, then plays on

Fast-slow-fastraces in, slow on the moment, builds and races out

One burstnormal, a sharp spike of speed on the moment, normal again

Hilla broad smooth hill: speeds up into the moment, eases back down

Burst that settlesa hard spike of speed that decays long into slow motion on the moment

Boomerangforward, slows to a stop on the moment, snaps back, then plays on

Otto's 8 looks, plus any LUT folder of yours. Log footage is converted before a look goes on.

Warm Sunsetwarm, orange highlights, soft contrast

Golden Hourgold light, gentle, slightly faded

Sound kinds Otto can place on a cut. Switch any kind off, or add folders of your own.

WhooshRiserImpactTransitionGlitchClickShutterKeyboardGlassMetalAmbienceBoulder

You stay the director.

An assistant that takes over your project is worse than none. Otto is built the other way round.

Timeline 1Timeline 1 · Otto

Yours

A001_C003.movA001_C007.movA002_C001.movA002_C004.movA003_C002.mov

Otto

A002_C001.movA001_C007.movA003_C002.movA001_C003.movA002_C004.movA003_C006.mov

song.wav

Its edit, its own timeline

Otto's version lands beside yours as "Timeline 1 · Otto". Yours is never touched. Real clips on real tracks, so you can take over by hand at any point.

OTTOEDITReady

Undo

Undone — the sounds are off.

Undo anything

Every change Otto makes can be taken back, and it tells you what came off.

Lay captionsAdjust

Options, not surprises

For anything that's taste (captions, titles, ramps, transitions, effects, looks) Otto shows cards on your footage and waits for your tap. Mix and match: stack transitions on one cut, swap a caption's font or colour.

Your files stay with you

Speech is turned into words on your own computer. Your original files never leave it.

OTTOEDITReady

Swap the last shot

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Only what you name

A note changes that one thing. The rest stays exactly as it was.

Each project is remembered.

Every project has its own conversation with Otto. Close Resolve, come back next week, and it still knows what you asked, what it did and what you changed. Undo still works.

OTTOEDITDesert Ride · next week

Undo that

Undone — the light leak is off. The rest of the cut is as you left it.

Stuck in Resolve? Ask it.

Otto reads your project and tells you the cause and one fix. "How do I…?" gets answered from the official Resolve manuals.

OTTOEDITReady

Why is there no sound in my export?

Audio export is switched off in your Deliver settings. Turn it on and export again.

Try it right here.

A hands-on preview with sample footage and set replies, so you can feel how Otto works. The real Otto runs inside your own DaVinci Resolve, on your footage.

DemoSample project · replies are pre-set · nothing here touches your files

Like what you see? Get the real thing.Otto on your own footage, inside DaVinci Resolve Studio on Windows. Free during the beta.

Questions.

The short answers. All questions, or write to us.

What is Otto?

Otto is an AI video editor that works inside DaVinci Resolve Studio. You tell it what you're making in plain words, the way you'd text an editor. It watches every clip, builds the edit on its own timeline in your project, and takes your notes from there. Whenever it's a matter of taste, like a caption look, a speed ramp or a transition, it shows you cards drawn on your own footage and waits for your tap.

What can Otto do in DaVinci Resolve?

The bulk of an edit. It cuts talking heads down to the clean takes, cuts music videos to the beat, drops in b-roll from your own clips, and adds animated captions, titles, speed ramps, transitions, effects, zooms, sound effects and colour. It makes vertical versions and does the export. Every choice of taste is a one-tap card on your own footage, and you can mix and match: stack transitions on one cut, swap a caption's font or colour, drag a ramp's curve. It can also work out why Resolve is misbehaving. What it can't do yet: Magic Mask, multicam and audio mixing.

Do I have to learn a lot of buttons?

No. Otto is chat first: you say what you want, the way you'd text an editor, and it does it. Buttons only show up when there's a choice of taste, like which caption look or which transition, and then it's one tap on a card showing your own footage.

Will my edit look like a template, like every other AI edit?

No. Otto has no presets and no templates. It builds the edit around what you shot: your moments, your beat, your words. When it's a matter of taste, it shows you cards drawn on your own footage, so you see the caption, ramp or transition on your shot before anything goes on. Nothing is added until you tap, and it never throws in a flashy transition you didn't ask for.

Can Otto edit a music video and cut to the beat?

Yes. It listens to the song first: the tempo, the beats, where the chorus kicks in, the lyrics. Drop markers if you know where you want the cuts. If not, it'll find them in the music.

Can Otto do kinetic typography and animated captions?

Yes, and it's one of the fun bits. Every word is timed to the voice and can slide, pop, bounce or type itself on letter by letter, with the key words picked out in their own colour and glow. Otto shows you a row of 14 caption looks, each one drawn on a frame of your own clip. Tap one and lay it as it is, or mix and match first: swap the font, pick a colour from the wheel or straight from your footage, add glow, change how the words come in and go out. You can also just say it: "like that one, but green".

Can Otto do speed ramps and slow motion?

Yes. Ask it to slow a shot down and it's done, flat or ramped. Name a moment, like "when he jumps", and it shows you six ramp cards, each with three frames of your shot and its speed curve. Tap one and it's on. Want it different? Drag the curve: up for faster, down for slower, sideways for earlier or later. Each ramp is fitted to the length of its shot, so it never runs out of footage and freezes.

Can Otto add transitions and effects?

Yes, 13 of them: flash, fade, wash, bloom, defocus, whip, zoom punch, zoom blur, spin blur, slide, soft blur, light leak and sunset leak. Ask for one and Otto shows you cards, each playing the transition between your own two shots. Tap one, pick which cuts get it, and it's on. You can mix and match too: stack up to three on one cut, like a soft blur with a light leak. It won't throw them in on its own if you didn't ask. There are six effects too, like blur the background and colour pop, each shown on a still of your shot.

Will Otto mess up my timeline?

No. It only touches what you name. For anything that comes down to taste, like a caption style or a speed ramp, it shows you the options and waits. Its edit lives on its own timeline, never on top of yours, and "undo" takes you back.

How is OttoEdit different from the AI in DaVinci Resolve 21.1?

Resolve 21.1 lets an AI chatbot drive Resolve, but you have to know exactly what to ask for, and it mostly works off the transcript. Otto actually watches the footage, so it knows which shot has the dog in it. It'll pitch ideas when you're stuck, build the captions and ramps for you, and keep everything on its own timeline. There's also nothing to set up.

Does Otto upload my footage?

Not the whole thing. Speech-to-text runs on your own computer. To see your shots, Otto sends some frames and short bits of your clips to a vision model. Your instructions and the transcript go to a language model so it can think it through. Your original files never leave your machine.

Does Otto work with the free version of DaVinci Resolve, or on a Mac?

Not yet on either. You need DaVinci Resolve Studio, the paid version, on Windows. Better you hear it now than halfway through an install.

Is Otto free, and how do I get it?

Free right now, no card. We're letting people in a few at a time and approving each one by hand. When it's your turn, you'll get one email with your download.

Free during the beta

Your next edit is
one sentence away.

Open Resolve, say what you want, and watch it come together on your own timeline. No editing skills needed.

Try the live demo

Windows 10 or 11 · DaVinci Resolve Studio · Seats open in small batches

The AI editor thatcomes closest to a real editor.