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DimensionDaVinci Resolve MCP ServerMCP server for DaVinci Resolve Studio, enabling AI assistants to fully control post-production workflows via the official scripting API.Firecrawl MCP ServerFirecrawl's official MCP server for web search, scraping, and structured extraction for AI agents
FMRS71 / 100 · B75 / 100 · B
Reliability9 / 2013 / 20
Security and permissions15 / 2012 / 20
Maintenance16 / 2016 / 20
Documentation18 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience13 / 2017 / 20
Best for
  • Video editing and post-production professionals
  • Colorists using DaVinci Resolve Studio
  • Assistant editors needing workflow automation
  • Teams wanting to integrate AI assistants for media management
  • Scenarios needing clean, structured web context fed to an AI assistant
  • Users already on the Firecrawl platform who want to call its scraping capability directly via MCP
Not for
  • Users relying solely on the free edition of DaVinci Resolve (requires bridge, may be unstable)
  • Those needing a network service or server-side deployment (local stdio only)
  • Those wanting automatic selection of the best take (not provided)
  • Those wanting automatic cutting to music (not provided)
  • Simple static-page scraping where you don't want to depend on a third-party API and incur call costs
  • Sites that explicitly disallow automated access (robots.txt)
Required permissions
  • Launch and control DaVinci Resolve application
  • Read and write Resolve project database
  • Read and write local media files (for analysis)
  • Perform destructive actions (with confirmation)
  • Execute external commands (e.g., ffmpeg)
  • Requires a Firecrawl API key to call; cost and quota are governed by the Firecrawl account
  • firecrawl_agent/firecrawl_interact perform automated browser interaction, which may trigger login or form-submission flows on the target site
Risks and side effects
  • May modify project data; ensure backups
  • Analysis tools do not modify source media, but may write metadata
  • Destructive operations require caution
  • Free edition bridge may be closed by Blackmagic
  • Bulk crawl/map tools can generate significant request volume against a target site — respect the site's rate limits and terms of service
  • firecrawl_agent's interactive action chain is longer — define task boundaries clearly before running it to avoid accidentally triggering actions on a sensitive site
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, Continue, Cline, Roo Code, OpenCode, JetBrains IDEsClaude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Amp
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