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This is a whole new way to edit. Your AI watches the library, builds the kit, and finishes the film on your Mac.

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The Difference isJust about Everything

Resolve is a timeline you drive. GroundSlate is an MCP that turns your AI of choice into a 24/7/365 editor on your Mac.

GroundSlate compared with DaVinci Resolve

  • Target user
    GroundSlate

    Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.

    DaVinci Resolve

    Human editor

  • Architecture
    GroundSlate

    MCP Server

    DaVinci Resolve

    Traditional Non-linear Editor

  • Who drives it
    GroundSlate

    Your AI, via MCP 24/7/365

    DaVinci Resolve

    You, at the keyboard

  • Native AI Interface
    GroundSlate

    Yes - 100% of all non-destructive commands

    DaVinci Resolve

    No

  • Works Unattended
    GroundSlate

    Yes - live and scheduled events

    DaVinci Resolve

    No

  • Finding footage
    GroundSlate

    Words, scenes, named people, GPS, notes, and dates

    DaVinci Resolve

    Media pool and Smart Bins. No named faces.

  • Scene log
    GroundSlate

    As fine as 0.25 seconds

    DaVinci Resolve

    Scene cut detection. No scene catalog.

  • Face detection
    GroundSlate

    AI finds them on your Mac

    DaVinci Resolve

    Finds faces for bins. Does not name them.

  • Transcript
    GroundSlate

    Listens, word-timed

    DaVinci Resolve

    Speech to text, then edit

  • Music map
    GroundSlate

    Beats, lyrics, sections

    DaVinci Resolve

    Beat detection in Studio

  • People
    GroundSlate

    An AI driven database with notes.

    DaVinci Resolve

    None

  • Collections
    GroundSlate

    Smart rules, families, seen-together

    DaVinci Resolve

    Bins and Smart Bins

  • Relationships
    GroundSlate

    Related people, notes, voices, avatars

    DaVinci Resolve

    None

  • Avatars
    GroundSlate

    Identity kits, on-model

    DaVinci Resolve

    None

  • Shows
    GroundSlate

    Bible, cast, compiled episodes

    DaVinci Resolve

    A Resolve project

  • Events
    GroundSlate

    Named days, clustered

    DaVinci Resolve

    Bins you make

  • Places
    GroundSlate

    GPS, named and refined

    DaVinci Resolve

    In the file, if it has it

  • Local AI Asset Generation
    GroundSlate

    Voice, music, SFX, video

    DaVinci Resolve

    Speech Generator in Studio

  • AI Credit System
    GroundSlate

    None. Models on your Mac

    DaVinci Resolve

    None

  • Web capture
    GroundSlate

    Screenshot and record a page

    DaVinci Resolve

    None

  • Web assets
    GroundSlate

    Auto add media found online

    DaVinci Resolve

    None

  • Kits
    GroundSlate

    Code and Markdown. Referenced, not copied

    DaVinci Resolve

    Fusion macros and files by hand

  • Brand and overlays
    GroundSlate

    Titles, lower thirds, brand pages

    DaVinci Resolve

    Titles and Fusion

  • Transitions
    GroundSlate

    Catalog and custom

    DaVinci Resolve

    Presets and Fusion

  • Looks
    GroundSlate

    Named looks and LUT export

    DaVinci Resolve

    Color page and LUT files

  • Puppets
    GroundSlate

    Style kits and characters

    DaVinci Resolve

    None

  • Finish
    GroundSlate

    Render the film on your Mac

    DaVinci Resolve

    Export from the Deliver page

  • Reviews
    GroundSlate

    Prompt or mark a timeline

    DaVinci Resolve

    Blackmagic Cloud, or you sit together

  • Highlights
    GroundSlate

    A rough cut from the log

    DaVinci Resolve

    You select the clips

  • Reframe
    GroundSlate

    Follow a named face to any aspect

    DaVinci Resolve

    Smart Reframe, not by name/face.

  • Sound isolate
    GroundSlate

    Remove one sound by asking

    DaVinci Resolve

    Voice Isolation in Fairlight

  • Index
    GroundSlate

    Open JSON on your Mac

    DaVinci Resolve

    Proprietary and closed

  • Watch folders
    GroundSlate

    While the app or an MCP client is up.

    DaVinci Resolve

    None

  • Scheduled jobs
    GroundSlate

    Queue it for later

    DaVinci Resolve

    None

  • Profiles
    GroundSlate

    Separate libraries with shared visibility

    DaVinci Resolve

    Databases you open

  • Platforms
    GroundSlate

    macOS, Apple silicon

    DaVinci Resolve

    Mac, Windows, Linux, and iPad

  • Price
    GroundSlate

    Free, or $99 a year

    DaVinci Resolve

    Free, or $295 once

  • Handoff
    GroundSlate

    Optional EDL and XML

    DaVinci Resolve

    Native XML and AAF

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The library

GroundSlate isSmarter

Your local AI watches and listens on your Mac. It transcribes with word-level timing, maps the music, and writes down faces, people, relationships, collections and places. A clip can be logged down to every 0.25 seconds.

A local model watches the film. Default 2 seconds, as fine as 0.25.

0:000:09
Processed video
Mila at the cenote stair
0:103840×216029.97 fps
People
Mila Reyes×12Tag
SummaryTranscriptShot logLocationTimelineNotes
Shots · 5
0:00WIDEA shaft of daylight hits the water at the foot of the cave.
0:02MEDIUMMila Reyes sits on the wooden stair and ties a hiking boot.
0:04CLOSEMila Reyes looks down at the lace in her hands.
0:06MEDIUMMila Reyes stands and looks out over the pool.
0:08WIDEThe stair drops into turquoise water under the opening.

People

A catalog of the people in your footage, with notes.

Collections

Rules that gather families, seen-together, and saved searches.

Places

GPS becomes a place name, then you can refine it.

Kits

Store Content Contextas Code and Markdown

Your AI writes the code once. Brand, transitions, looks, overlays, puppets, style kits, props and sets live in the kit store. The next video loads that same code. It does not copy it.

Brand

Titles, type, and color your AI reuses.

Transitions

Clip joins and page moves, saved once.

Looks

A grade your AI applies on the next film.

Overlays

Lower thirds, banners, and callouts that hold.

Puppets

Characters your AI can perform, not draw once.

Style kits

The look of a whole show, in one kit.

Props

Objects a scene can pick up again.

Sets

Rooms and worlds a show is staged in.

Choose GroundSlate

  • You need to scale video production
  • You want an AI to create video on your Mac without a credit meter
  • You use Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor Desktop
  • You want a library that names people and remembers the film

Stay with Resolve

  • You grade on the Color page and finish in Resolve
  • Your compositing lives in Fusion
  • You mix in Fairlight
  • You need Windows or Linux, or a Resolve project as the shop file
Delivery

Finish on your Mac

Search, cut, save a kit, apply looks, generate the voice and the bed, render now or schedule to run overnight. If a shop still wants Resolve, hand off XML or AAF.

Questions

Straight answers

What does GroundSlate do that Resolve does not?

It watches and listens on your Mac. Your AI runs face detection, transcribes speech with word-level timing, maps the music, searches places, reads relationships, keeps avatars, compiles a show, captures or records a web page, automatically adds media found online, builds kits, applies looks, generates voice, music, SFX and video, runs a puppet, and renders the file, through 386 MCP tools. No credits for the local models.

How fine is the index?

Vision samples every 2 seconds by default. The app's Maximum reprocess logs every 0.5 seconds. MCP can set interval_sec as low as 0.25 seconds. That is not every frame. Speech is transcribed for the whole clip, then timed word by word. Music gets its own map: beats, energy and sections, and the lyrics.

What personal data does GroundSlate store?

AI face detection, a people catalog, notes, relationships, smart collections, transcripts, word timings, music maps, GPS and place names. All of that lives in your profile on your Mac. COEY does not receive it.

What is a kit?

A kit is code your AI writes once and GroundSlate keeps. The HTML, the JavaScript, the rig, the engine a page loads. Not a still, and not a preset you drag onto a timeline.

Brand, transitions, looks, overlays, puppets, style kits, props and sets are kits. A puppet kit is the body an avatar performs. A style kit is how a whole show is drawn. An engine kit is a library every later page can load.

They live in the kit store, one kit per thing, in a collection that says which kind. A later page points at that code. The project folder stays prose, plates, takes and the finished file. Nothing is copied back into the cut.

Resolve keeps Fusion macros and LUT files by hand, one timeline at a time. Here the next episode runs the same kit.

Do I need Resolve to finish?

No. GroundSlate renders the film on your Mac. Resolve is there if you still want that timeline, not because the cut is unfinished.

Where does my footage go?

Indexing, faces, transcription, word timing, music maps, looks and rendering stay on your Mac. Resolve projects live in the app on your machine. Your AI client is a separate app, so what you type there follows that app.

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