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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Because the slow part of editing isn't the creative part. It's scrubbing through forty minutes of footage to find the six seconds that work. Otto watches all of it, builds the cut in your Resolve project, and hands it back for you to shape. It's the closest thing to having an editor sit next to you, without the invoice.

That's the idea. You tell it what the video's for, it goes through the footage and comes back with a cut. Then you give notes like you would to anyone: "shot 4 looks too dark", "swap the last shot", "less glow". You're still the one making the calls. It just does the dragging.

Depends what you need. If it's one job, like cutting silences or making subtitles, there are good tools built just for that. If you want something that goes through your footage and builds the whole edit inside Resolve, that's what Otto's for. It's free right now, so the easiest way to judge is to try it on your own clips.

Yes. No exporting, no importing, no second editor. Otto works on the project you have open, and what it makes is a normal timeline you can keep editing by hand.

Otto has its own window that sits next to Resolve. You type to it like you'd message someone: "make it shorter", "slow down shot 5", "why is there no sound?" It answers, and the change shows up in Resolve.

Yes. Otto will happily do the first cut, which is usually the part nobody wants to do. After that it's a conversation: shorter here, different shot there, captions on. You can grab the timeline and finish it yourself whenever you like.

Very. You don't need to know where anything lives in Resolve. Ask for what you want, or ask "how do I…?" and it answers from the official Resolve manuals. People who've edited for years use it too, mostly to skip the boring bits.

Open your project in Resolve and open Otto next to it. It watches your clips once and remembers them. Tell it what you want, and it builds the edit on its own timeline inside your project. From there you can keep giving notes or take over by hand.

Type it the way you'd text an editor. "make a 40 sec highlight from these, cut to the song." That's plenty. If it's not sure what you mean, it'll ask. And it won't sneak in a flashy transition you never asked for.

No. "add captions", "make it vertical", "slow motion on shot 3" all work fine. Typos are fine too. Only add detail when you actually care about it.

No, and that's on purpose. Otto isn't a button that turns footage into a finished video. It gives you a first cut, then you work towards the video you want together: "tighter here", "captions on", "warmer", "swap the last shot". Each note gets you closer. It's how you'd work with a real editor, and it's why the video ends up looking like yours, not like everyone else's.

Short and simple works best:

• "make a rough cut with only the clean takes"

• "40 second highlight from these, cut to the song"

• "turn this into a vertical reel"

• "cut out the pauses"

• "add captions"

• "make the captions glow a little"

• "zoom in when he says money"

• "where else could we zoom?"

• "it feels flat, what would you add?"

• "slow motion on the jump"

• "shot 4 is too dark"

• "match all the shots to shot 2"

• "swap the last shot"

• "why does my export look washed out?"

• "why is there no sound?"

• "undo"

When you know exactly what you want, say it all at once:

• Captions: "add captions, clean white text, key words in orange with a soft glow, each word pops in"

• Captions: "like the second look, but bigger and in yellow"

• Titles: "only put the lines about money on screen, big and bold"

• Zooms: "open with a slow push in and hold it, then punch in on the key words"

• Speed: "speed ramp into slow motion right when he lands, then back to normal"

• Sound effects: "a whoosh on every zoom and a soft pop when each caption comes in"

• Sound effects: "just one riser at the start, nothing else"

• Colour: "give it a warm film look, but only half as strong"

• Colour: "shot 3 is too blue, warm it up and match the rest to it"

• Music: "cut these to the beat, about 20 seconds, vertical"

• The whole thing: "30 second reel from the interview, use the beach clips as b-roll, captions on, export for reels"

However you'd say it to a person. "shot 3." "at 0:12." "when he says money." "the last shot." Or click it: Otto shows your timeline as a strip of shots. Click a shot, the line between two shots, or drag along a stretch, then say "add a zoom here".

Everything Otto adds shows as a mark on its timeline strip: a transition on its cut, a zoom, effect or speed change on its shot. Tap the mark and choose Change or Remove. Or just say it: "take the glow off shot 4".

Just say what's bugging you. "swap the last shot." "hold shot 3 longer." "no transitions." It changes that and leaves the rest alone.

When it's a taste thing, yes. Caption looks, ramps, sounds and colour all come as options for you to pick. It'll also check with you before clearing a timeline or changing a project setting. Plain instructions like "slow motion on shot 3" it just does.

In the media pool of the Resolve project you've got open. You can also drag footage straight into the Otto window.

Yes. It watches each clip once and keeps notes on your computer, so the next edit with the same footage starts straight away.

No. The AI comes with Otto. No keys to paste, no extra subscription.

With Resolve 21.1, Claude can run steps in Resolve if you set up the connection yourself and tell it exactly what to do. Otto is the no-setup way: open it, say what you want, and it watches your footage and does the edit in your timeline.

Getting a chatbot into Resolve 21.1 means paying for Claude or ChatGPT yourself, installing a coding tool, and wiring them together. Then it does what you tell it, step by step. Otto skips all that. Open it and talk. And it brings what the raw connection doesn't have: it's actually seen your footage, and it knows what a good cut looks like.

They're brilliant at thinking, but on their own they've never seen your clips or heard your song. Otto puts language models and vision models together with an editor's instincts, so it can see the footage, hear the music, and make the cut, on its own timeline where it can't wreck your work.

With Resolve 21.1 and some setup, ChatGPT Codex can run steps in Resolve for you. Otto does the whole edit with no setup, and it watches your footage while it does it.

The Resolve connection comes with Resolve Studio, but you pay for your own Claude or ChatGPT plan to use it. Otto is free right now with the AI included. No card.

Fair question. Blackmagic's own connection reaches a few things Otto doesn't yet, like multicam and audio levelling, and it runs on Mac. If you want something that follows exact commands, it's a solid option. If you want an editor who's watched your footage and has opinions, that's Otto.

Partly. Its captions, titles, transitions and camera moves are all built in Fusion, so you get that polish without touching a node. What it won't do yet is build your own custom Fusion setups.

Yes. It writes them from what's said and times every word. They come out as styled captions, though, not plain subtitles. It doesn't fill Resolve's subtitle track yet.

Yes. Ask for a title, or for only certain lines on screen, and it puts them where you want. You pick the look from its title styles.

Yes. If you shot in log, it converts it to normal colour first. Say "check my colours" and it goes shot by shot, tells you what's off, like too dark or too blue, and fixes it when you say yes. It also has looks and LUTs (your own included), each shown on a frame of your own footage, and one tap puts it on. It suggests the ones that suit your footage, adjusts exposure, contrast, saturation and warmth on any shot, and matches every shot to the one you like best. Masks, power windows and Magic Mask are still on you.

Yes. Pick one transition card, then add up to two more to go on with it on the same cut, like a soft blur with a light leak. Choose which cuts get the mix, and it goes on in one go. Ctrl+Z takes it back.

Yes. Six effects, each shown as a card on a still of your own shot: blur the background, colour pop (black and white except the person), black and white, darker edges, soft focus and glow. Tap one, pick which shots get it, done. Blur the background and colour pop show up when there's a person or subject in the shot.

Yes. Push in, pull out, or push and settle, on any shot, at the second you say.

It picks from its own library of 73 sounds, from whooshes and risers to clicks, glitches and background ambience, tells you where each one goes and why, and adds them once you say yes. It doesn't mix audio, duck music under voice or clean up noise yet.

Not much yet. It can switch audio tracks on and off and suggest sound effects. The mixing is still yours.

Yes. Say "export for reels" or "for youtube", plus the format or codec if you care, and it renders it from the Deliver page.

Yes, and it keeps the person in frame while it does it. 4:5 and 1:1 too.

Not yet. We'd rather tell you now than have you find out mid-edit.

Talking heads, YouTube videos, podcasts, reels and shorts, music videos, montages. If you'd cut it in Resolve, it can have a go at it.

Yes, this is where it saves the most time. It listens to every take, keeps the clean version of each line, drops the false starts and tightens the gaps, all in the order you said it. Before it cuts, it shows you the lines it's keeping, so you can change the plan first.

Yes. It puts cutaways from your own clips on the words they're about, so the shot of the coffee lands when you say "coffee". It'll tell you why it picked each one.

Yes. It's watched every clip, so it knows the shot where the light hits right from the one where someone walks through the frame. It picks by what's on screen, not only by what's said.

Yes. Its speech-to-text handles most major languages and works out which one you're speaking. We've tested English the most, so tell us how it does in yours.

Yes. Press Ctrl+Z or say "undo" to take back the last thing, one step at a time, and Otto tells you what came off. You can also jump back to any earlier version of its cut.

Of course. It's a normal Resolve timeline. Change whatever you like, and Otto picks up your changes and works from them next time.

Tell it, the way you'd tell anyone. "too long." "use the other take." It fixes that bit. Or hit undo, or just fix it yourself.

Yes. Ask "what should I do next?" or "where could we zoom?" and it suggests two to four spots, each with its time and why, then waits for your pick. Ask why an export is black or playback lags, and it reads your settings, render queue and tracks, tells you the cause and one fix, and changes nothing until you say yes. "How do I…?" questions it answers from the official Resolve manuals.

Usually. Tell it which file, and it'll figure out what it really is and why Resolve is refusing it. If you say yes, it makes a copy Resolve will take and leaves your original where it is.

The outside AI companies we use aren't allowed to train their own models on it. We may use it to make Otto a better editor, with your name and email stripped off, and we never sell it or share it. If you'd rather we didn't, send one email to support@ottoedit.com and that's that. Otto works exactly the same.

You do. Your footage, your edits. We won't publish them or use them in our marketing without asking you first.

DaVinci Resolve Studio 20 or newer. We've used Otto on versions 20 and 21.

If your PC runs Resolve Studio comfortably, it'll run Otto. Windows 10 or 11 and an internet connection, since the heavy AI work happens in the cloud. Speech-to-text runs on your machine, so the first pass on a long clip takes a little longer. After that it remembers it.

One switch. Turn on external scripting in Resolve's preferences so Otto can work in your project. It'll show you where it is.

Yes. Windows shows that for apps from newer publishers. Click "More info", then "Run anyway".

There will be a fair daily allowance per person, so the beta stays quick for everyone. We're still setting the amount and will share it here before it starts.

Descript and CapCut are their own editors, so you'd leave Resolve to use them. Opus Clip chops long videos into shorts on the web. AutoCut and FireCut are Resolve plugins for single jobs like silence cutting, captions and zooms. Cardboard is its own editor in the browser and on Mac. Otto stays inside Resolve and works on the whole edit, start to finish, and it can sort out Resolve when it misbehaves.

Yes. OttoEdit is an AI video editor that works inside DaVinci Resolve. Tell it what you're making, and it watches your footage and builds the edit on a timeline you can keep working on.

Yes. OttoEdit runs alongside DaVinci Resolve Studio on Windows and edits in your open project: cuts, captions, speed ramps, colour, transitions and exports.

OttoEdit is built to work like one. You brief it, it watches the footage, cuts it, pitches ideas and takes notes like "make it shorter" or "swap the last shot", all inside DaVinci Resolve.

Yes. OttoEdit, inside DaVinci Resolve, listens to every take, keeps the clean version of each line, drops the false starts and tightens the pauses.

Resolve can find silences for you, but you still make the cuts. OttoEdit makes them for you: it hears every take, keeps the good lines, drops the stumbles and closes the gaps.

Resolve Studio can turn speech into plain subtitles. For animated, word-by-word captions, OttoEdit times every word to the voice, shows you 14 caption looks drawn on your own footage, and lays in the one you tap. Swap its font, colour or animation first if you like.

Yes. OttoEdit makes word-by-word animated text inside DaVinci Resolve: words that slide, pop, bounce or type on, timed to the voice, with key words highlighted.

Normally you'd set the speed points by hand. With OttoEdit you just name the moment, like "speed ramp at 7 seconds", tap one of six ramp cards, and it's done. Drag the curve if you want it different.

Yes. OttoEdit listens to your song, the tempo, beats and sections, and cuts your clips on the beat inside DaVinci Resolve. Or on your markers, if you've placed them.

Yes. OttoEdit cuts music videos inside DaVinci Resolve. It watches your clips, listens to the track, and builds the cut on the music, with ramps and transitions where they belong.

Yes. OttoEdit places cutaways from your own clips on the words they match, inside DaVinci Resolve, and tells you why it chose each one.

Yes. OttoEdit watches every clip and knows what's in each shot, so it picks by what's on screen, not just by what's said.

OttoEdit makes a 9:16 version of your cut in DaVinci Resolve and keeps the person in frame. 4:5 and 1:1 too.

Yes. OttoEdit converts log footage to normal colour, checks every shot and fixes what's off when you say yes, applies looks and LUTs, adjusts exposure, contrast, saturation and warmth shot by shot, and matches all your shots to the one you like.

Usually it's a setting, a track that's switched off, or something stuck in the render queue. OttoEdit checks all three in your project, tells you what's wrong and how to fix it, and doesn't change anything until you say so.

Yes. Ask OttoEdit "what should I do next?" and it gives you a few ideas with times and reasons. Ask "how do I…?" and it answers from the official Resolve manuals.

Not by themselves. They can't open your editor or watch your clips. OttoEdit pairs language and vision models with DaVinci Resolve, so it can see your footage, and you talk while it does the edit.

Yes. OttoEdit edits YouTube videos inside DaVinci Resolve. It cuts the talking down, adds b-roll, captions, zooms and ramps, and exports for YouTube.

OttoEdit cuts podcast and interview footage in DaVinci Resolve. It keeps the clean lines, drops the stumbles, adds captions and makes vertical versions for social.

Let something else do the first cut. OttoEdit builds the edit from your footage inside Resolve, so you spend your time on notes, not on scrubbing.

OttoEdit. Rather than moving your footage into another app, it does the AI editing right inside DaVinci Resolve.

OttoEdit is free right now, AI included, no card. It needs DaVinci Resolve Studio on Windows.

Yes. With OttoEdit you say what you want in plain words and it does the work in Resolve. You can ask it how anything works, too.

Not the taste, and it shouldn't. OttoEdit does the legwork an editor does, like watching everything, cutting, captions, ramps and colour, so you can spend your time deciding instead of dragging clips around.