With the AI connector (Beta) your AI app works in DaVinci Resolve through ROKLIM. You ask in plain words — "make animated word-by-word subtitles for this video, key words in orange" — and the AI uses ROKLIM to recognize the speech, lay out the words and do the whole edit: animations, sounds, effects, colors, fonts and Premade layouts — often in a single step.
It works in the free DaVinci Resolve and in Studio.
Why through ROKLIM
An AI can try to build subtitles in Resolve by itself — writing Fusion code word by word, guessing sizes and positions it cannot see. Through ROKLIM it calls a few ready actions instead: speech recognition, Layout (words measured with your font, no overlaps, inside the frame) and animations made by a designer, with sliders the AI can set.
In our tests on the same 15-second video:
| AI on its own | AI through ROKLIM | |
|---|---|---|
| Simple animation of ready subtitles | 57 s, $0.47 | 45 s, $0.24 |
| Bounce, flash, underline, shine, exit | 204 s, $0.91 — words flashed dark on entry and exit | 69 s, $0.31 |
| From the video only: recognize, lay out, animate | not finished after 334 s, $1.22 | 122 s, $0.65 — done |
Costs are what the AI service charged for the work; your AI subscription covers them.
Turn it on
In the ROKLIM main window open the AI tab at the top. How to connect walks you through it step by step; in short:
- Tick AI connector (Beta). It shows ON.
- Pick where your AI lives — Claude Desktop or Browser & phone (below).
- Keep DaVinci Resolve and ROKLIM open while you work.
Claude Desktop
Press Add to Claude — ROKLIM adds itself to Claude Desktop (a copy of Claude's settings file is kept). Quit Claude Desktop completely and open it again: in a new chat ROKLIM appears among the tools.
Another AI app that supports local MCP connectors: Other AI app: copy setup, then paste it into that app's MCP settings.
In the browser and on the phone
- Tick Browser & phone. It shows CONNECTED.
- Press Copy link.
- In claude.ai open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, name it ROKLIM, paste the link, choose No sign-in and press Add.
- In a new chat — in the browser or in the Claude app on your phone — just ask. Your computer with DaVinci Resolve and ROKLIM must be on and open.
It works with a free Claude account too (a free account can add one custom connector).
The link is personal: keep it private, whoever has it can use ROKLIM while it is open. New link makes a new one — the old link stops working at once. After a ROKLIM update, disconnect and connect ROKLIM in claude.ai once, so the AI gets the new commands — ROKLIM tells you when.
Watch what the AI does
Show AI activity on the AI tab opens a window next to ROKLIM: every step the AI takes, the frames it looked at, the animations it used or made — with a live preview and its sliders — and Undo last.
The AI does not check its work on frames by itself: it tells you the change is done and asks whether to look. If something is off, tell it what — it fixes exactly that.
What to ask
- "Make animated word-by-word subtitles for the part between the In and Out marks."
- "Like Easy Mode: top rows Blur_In at the start, a click sound on 'free', the brand name in yellow."
- "Change the font to Montserrat Bold and make the gaps between words a bit bigger."
- "Put my Premade layout Exclusion_R1 on the first group."
- "Why does the animation on 'library' not show?" — the AI checks how the clip is connected and tells you.
- "Show me how the word 'free' moves." — the AI gets a frame strip from Resolve.
- "Make the bounce on the brand name stronger." · "Undo that."
- "Download a few whoosh sounds from the ROKLIM catalog." · "Make a new pop-up animation for key words and save it." — needs Work with files.
Mark the part of the timeline with I and O first — the AI works between the marks (no marks = the whole timeline).
You choose what the AI may do
On the AI tab, under What the AI may do:
- Read the timeline — always on. Words, clips, animations and frames; changes nothing.
- Change the timeline (no access to files) — lay out subtitles, put animations, colors, sounds and effects on clips. Every change can be undone.
- Ask me first — ROKLIM asks you before the AI replaces words that are already there or removes animations. Tick Don't ask again in that window and the AI works without stops.
- Work with files (off at first) — make new animations in your Animations folder (sub-folder AI) and download animations, sounds and effects from the ROKLIM catalog into your folders. It never deletes files.
If the AI tries something that is not ticked, ROKLIM tells it where you can turn it on.
Safe by design
- Off by default. Without Use from browser and phone it works only on this computer. With it, ROKLIM connects out to its own cloud link — no ports are opened on your computer, and the cloud passes the AI's requests along without keeping your words or projects.
- The AI can use only ROKLIM actions: no scripts, no system commands, and files only if you allow it. It changes only ROKLIM animations, sounds, effects and the subtitles.
- Every change can be undone — even after ROKLIM is restarted (a Premade layout: while ROKLIM stays open).
- Untick AI connector to switch it off at once.
- The words of your subtitles go to your AI service like any text you type in a chat.
The AI connector needs ROKLIM Animations; recognizing speech, laying out words, fonts, Premade and Easy Mode need ROKLIM Layout. It works in the 7-day free trial too.