Your edit plan,
on your timeline.
BlueCue keeps a video's plan and its DaVinci Resolve timeline in step. Every planned shot, graphic, voiceover and sound effect shows up in the edit as a color-coded marker, and turns green when it's placed.
Built and used at BlueForest Studios. A version for other Resolve editors is on the way.
Planned, still to placePlaced
Plan it once. See it in the edit.
The plan and the timeline stop drifting apart, because the timeline is where the plan lives.
Plan
Every planned shot, graphic, voiceover and sound effect gets an ID, like REM001 or BRL004, and a line saying what it is.
Push
Each one lands on the timeline as a marker at its planned time, colored by type. The marker's note carries the description, or the build prompt for a graphic.
Build
Motion graphics are built in Remotion, one per marker, from the note on that marker.
Place
A finished file goes onto the timeline at its marker, trimmed to the marker's length, and the marker turns green.
Sync
What's placed flows back to the plan, so the producer can see what's in and what's still missing without opening Resolve.
Then back to Plan for the next round of notes.
Two ways to drive it
Pick by how the video was planned.
Claude and timeline markers
Claude reads the interview transcripts, picks the strongest quotes and builds a first assembly in Resolve. You play it down and drop a marker with a note wherever something needs to change. Claude works through the markers.
A film usually goes around this loop six to eight times.
The AV Script sheet
Every shot or asset is one row in a Google Sheet. BlueCue puts each row on the timeline as a marker at its planned time, with the shot description in the note.
When a shot is cut in, its marker turns green and the sheet marks it placed.
Color tells you what's missing
Each asset type has its own marker color. Scrub the timeline and you can see what's still to come. Green means it's in.
- INTInterview · Blue
- BRLB-roll · Cyan
- DRGResolve graphic · Purple
- REMRemotion graphic · Fuchsia
- AFXAfter Effects · Pink
- VOIVoiceover · Lemon
- MUSMusic · Lavender
- SFXSound effect · Yellow
- IMGStill image · Sand
- 3DG3D graphic · Cream
- MSCAnything else · Cocoa
- PlacedAny type · Green
On a real timeline
This is a BlueForest edit before cutting starts: one marker for every planned b-roll shot, each waiting for its clip.
Who it's for
Editors and producers who cut in DaVinci Resolve and want the plan and the edit in one place.
What it isn't
An auto-edit button. Claude can build a first assembly, but you watch it, leave notes and decide what stays.
What you need
- DaVinci Resolve Studio 21.1 or later. BlueCue works through Resolve's scripting, which needs the paid Studio version.
- A Mac. Setup is one install script.
- Claude Code. Claude does the reading, the marker work and the graphics builds, inside your project folder.
- Google Sheets, only for the shot-by-shot sheet.
- Remotion, only if you want motion graphics built as code.
Built at BlueForest
I'm Ammon Ehrisman. I own BlueForest Studios, a video production company in the Raleigh, North Carolina area, and I've worked in video since 2002. We built BlueCue for our own edits. It was first proven on an eight-video series for a client, and we use it on our client edits now.
I show how BlueCue and our other tools are built on Creative System Builders. More about the studio at BlueForest Studios.
Get word when it's ready
BlueCue runs on our edits every day. A version other Resolve editors can install is on the way. Send one email and I'll write back when it's ready. No newsletter, and the price isn't set yet.