Premiere Claude Bridge MCP server

AI assistant editor for Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve

premiere-claude-bridge is a free, open-source MCP server that lets Claude Code or Codex do the assistant editor's work inside your own project. You ask in plain language. It logs the footage, transcribes the speech, lays out a rough cut on your timeline and checks the result before you ship it.

Install in one sentence

Open Claude Code (the Code tab of the Claude desktop app works) and send it this:

Install premiere-claude-bridge from github.com/koptsev63/premiere-claude-bridge following its README, and take me to the green "Connected" label in Premiere.

Claude clones the repo, sets everything up and tells you when to restart Premiere. Then:

1. In Premiere open Window → Extensions → Claude Bridge. The panel should say "Connected to Claude".
2. Start a new chat and ask: "Check the connection to Premiere."
3. Keep that Claude session open while you edit.

On DaVinci Resolve Studio there is no panel. Set Preferences → System → General → External scripting using to Local, restart Resolve, and ask Claude to set the project up for Resolve.

You need Premiere Pro 2024 or newer, or DaVinci Resolve Studio, and a Claude or Codex subscription. Tested on macOS. Windows has install steps but nobody has confirmed them yet. Prefer to do it by hand? See Manual install.

What you can ask it to do

Sort the footage

• Watch a whole folder of rushes and write a log: what is in the shot, where the motion and the sound are, which clips are shaky or tilted. You get one page with a frame strip per clip.
• Transcribe speech offline, in Russian, English, Hungarian and other languages, then flag the words it probably misheard.
• Find material by words: a character's lines, a topic, "the long monologue at night".

Build the cut

• Put takes on the timeline in order and mark the story beats.
• Cut out pauses and dead air.
• Pick the strongest moments of a long recording for a short version.
• Build two contrasting rough cuts from the same material so you choose.
• Make variants of a cut you built by hand: drop a scene, insert a block, keep every other frame where it was.

Sound and subtitles

• Duck music under speech and level the takes against each other.
• Deliver subtitles as SRT and burned in.

Check before delivery

• Refuse a grade with blown highlights or red skin, and a grade nobody can see.
• Refuse a file with wrong proportions, shaky edges or no sound.

Follow your hands. Move the cuts, retype a caption, save the project. It reads your saved .prproj and works from your version from then on.

It has no taste. Decisions stay with you; it takes the logging, sorting and checking.

What an editor said

"Все установилось по твоей инструкции без проблем, единственный затык, который случился - это настройка первого коннекта."

"Я пока попробовал использовать помощника только для базовой организации файлов на таймлайне, типа расставить в хронологическом порядке дубли, срезать пустые фазы и т.д. С этим он справился отлично, все вполне интуитивно."

Andrey, film editor, October 2026

In English: "Everything installed by your instruction with no problems. The only snag was setting up the first connection." And: "So far I have used the assistant only for basic organisation of files on the timeline, like putting takes in chronological order and cutting the empty phases. It handled that very well, it is all quite intuitive."

The snag he hit is now step 2 above.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.