I build color pipeline tools that let assistants and solo colorists spend less time organizing and more time grading.

On a multi-cam episodic show, a color assistant might spend hours manually grouping hundreds of shots before a senior colorist ever touches a power window. On a solo documentary grade, it's the same person doing both jobs: organizing and creating. And the organizing always eats the creative time first.

I'm building plugins that automate the grouping and organization stage of color work so the human eye can get to the image faster. Built with AI-assisted development, tested against real project files from the workflows I actually work inside.

RESOLVE AUTO-GROUP

IN DEVELOPMENT

A DaVinci Resolve plugin that automatically groups shots in the color page based on exposure analysis, RGB pixel values, camera metadata, and timecode — replacing what is currently a tedious, manual process that sits between the conform and the creative grade.

HOW IT WORKS

  • Reads exposure scopes and RGB pixel values across every clip on the timeline to identify shots with similar luminance and color characteristics

  • Cross-references camera metadata — sensor, ISO, white balance, lens data — to catch shots from the same setup even when exposure has drifted between takes

  • Uses timecode and source reel data to intelligently group across multi-camera shoots where the same scene is covered from different angles simultaneously

  • Generates organized groups directly in Resolve's color page, ready for a colorist to apply base corrections across matched shots rather than working clip by clip

WHO IT'S FOR

Color assistants on multi-cam episodic and unscripted shows who currently spend hours manually sorting timelines before a senior colorist starts a session. Solo documentary colorists who don't have an assistant and need to move from conform to creative grade as fast as possible without sacrificing organizational rigor. Anyone who has ever stared at a 400-clip timeline and thought "there has to be a better way to do this."

WHY I'M BUILDING IT

I've sat in both chairs. As a freelance colorist working on both multi-cam shows and solo on documentaries I’ve shot myself, I've lost entire sessions to organization that should could be automated. This plugin exists because the information needed to group shots intelligently is already embedded in the footage. Someone just needed to write the code that reads it.

HOW IT'S BUILT

AI-assisted development using Gemini/Claude. I describe color pipeline problems in the language of a working colorist, and use AI to help translate that into Resolve API calls, then test and refine against real timelines from projects I've graded. The development process itself mirrors how I think the best AI tools should work: the human sets the creative intent, the machine handles the execution.

Python · C++ · DaVinci Resolve API · Built with Gemini/Claude AI

BUT WHY USE THESE TOOLS?

Color assistants are some of the most detail-oriented people in post-production. They keep sessions running, catch errors before they reach the colorist, and build the organizational scaffolding that makes a creative grade possible. But a huge portion of their day is spent on tasks that are systematic and repeatable - exactly the kind of work that should be handled by software so they can focus on the judgment calls that actually require a human eye.

I'm not trying to replace the assistant. I'm trying to give them a better starting point: a timeline that's already organized intelligently so they can spend their time on quality control, client communication, and creative support instead of manual shot sorting.

WHAT’S NEXT?

Scene detection grouping for Verité and unscripted footage.

Planned

Automated B-Roll Bin sorting (for documentary and archival work)

Researching

Auto Color-Space input/output transforms for multi-cam projects

Researching