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 a video of your cut, 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 on a phone or a laptop, with no account: your cut as a video and the shots in a row. They can move a shot, shorten it, remove it, comment at a moment, or add a title 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's in the copy; if they need more, they add a card.

What you do

Send a cut to your producer walks you through it on one page:

1. Export the project. In the Project Manager, right-click the project and choose Export Project to save a .drp.
2. Add the .drp and pick the timeline. The free check lists what your producer can change and what stays untouched.
3. Choose your media folder. The timeline's files are found and checked on your computer. Nothing is uploaded.
4. Prepare the producer's copy. Your browser starts making a review copy (720p, or 1080p on Pro and Studio) after you link the footage. Sign in and confirm permission before upload. Copies can be up to three hours; over 30 minutes, or when the browser cannot make the copy, export an MP4 from Resolve with the settings on the page. Your project file is stored privately for updated downloads; your source footage stays on your computer.
5. Send the link. Copy it or email it. Your producer needs no account.
6. Review and accept their changes. Their version arrives with their name on it; review what changed and accept it.
7. Import the result. Download 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 title card becomes a Text+ title of its length, copied from one of your project's own Text+ titles; a project without one gets a marker carrying the text instead. 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

Browser titles need an existing Text+ title in the project as a template; otherwise their words return as markers. Speed changes through unsupported effects or nests need manual finishing. The free check explains what can return before you share the cut.

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 a black Solid Color clip of the card's length goes under it, with the card's Text+ title (or its marker) on top. A cut made only of cards works the same way.