The install,
menu by menu.

Step 1

Unzip the folder you received

Mac: double-click the ND-Motion-Studio_….zip file. Windows: right-click it, then Extract All…. You get the “ND Motion Studio - …” folder.

The file to import into Claude is nd-motion-studio.zip, in “1 - Skill à importer dans Claude”. Don't unzip it. If an nd-motion-studio folder appeared next to it (an accidental double-click), ignore it: it's the .zip that gets imported.

Step 2

Open Resolve's Preferences

Menu DaVinci Resolve › Preferences… (Mac: ⌘ , ; Windows: Ctrl ,).

Step 3

Allow external scripting

System tab at the top, General on the left. On the External scripting using line (French UI: Écriture de scripts externe sur), choose Local, then click Save.

Restart Resolve (DaVinci Resolve › Quit, then reopen it): the setting is only read at startup.

Step 4

Connect Resolve to Claude

In Resolve: File › Setup AI Assistants…. Resolve registers its connector with the assistants installed on the computer and opens the Claude app.

Resolve confirms: “AI Assistants Configured”. Click OK.

In Claude, the DaVinci Resolve Studio extension page opens: click Install. The red warning is Claude's standard message for any extension that acts on your computer; this one is published by Blackmagic Design and drives Resolve.

Quit Claude completely, then reopen it: Mac, Claude › Quit (⌘ Q); Windows, right-click the Claude icon near the clock, then Quit. To check: in Claude, Settings › Extensions, “DaVinci Resolve Studio” is enabled.

No Setup AI Assistants menu? Your Resolve is too old: DaVinci Resolve › Check for Updates… (21.1 or later).

Step 5

Turn on code execution in Claude

In Claude: Settings › Capabilities. Turn on code execution and file creation: the agent needs it to install its engine.

Step 6

Import the skill into Claude

In Claude: Customize › Skills, the + button, Create skill, then Upload a skill. Choose nd-motion-studio.zip in “1 - Skill à importer dans Claude”.

The nd-motion-studio skill shows up in the list: leave it enabled. Already have other DaVinci Resolve skills? Turn them off during the install so Claude uses this one.

Step 7

Start the setup

Open Resolve with any project: it won't be modified. In Claude, start a new conversation and type:

Initialize ND Motion Studio

Write in your own language: Claude answers in the same one. It asks its questions as tick-box choices, recommended answer first. What it does, in about ten minutes:

1. It checks the connector and the connection to Resolve.
2. It asks how you want to work. By default: it explains and waits for your OK before every change, and never deletes anything.
3. It sets up the work folder with you, Documents/nd_motion by default. Your footage doesn't go there.
4. It installs the engine and checks your licence, then adds the “nd_motion” titles and transitions, the Montserrat font and, with the Colour Grading module, its LUTs and node tree to Resolve. A file with the same name is archived, never overwritten.
5. It asks you to restart Resolve once: titles, transitions and fonts are only read at startup.
6. It records your profile: formats, frame rate, style, captions, brand colours, loudness.
7. It runs its tests in a separate project, “nd_motion - Initialisation”, shows you the results, then reopens your project.

Step 8

If Claude can't place the engine

It will tell you. Copy the nd_motion_lib_….zip archive from the “2 - Moteur” folder into Documents/nd_motion (create the folder if needed), without unzipping it, then tell Claude: “I have placed the engine archive”.

Step 9

The sound pack (full agent and Sound Design)

Open the “sound pack” link in your delivery email: it leads to the folder of the 14 sound families (about 8 GB in all). Download the families you want and the index file nd_motion_st_sfx_index.json.

Unzip the archives into one folder, on the drive of your choice, and put the index file in it. Then tell Claude: “Use this sound pack:” followed by the folder's path.

To copy that path: Mac, right-click the folder while holding Option, then Copy “…” as Pathname; Windows, Shift + right-click the folder, then Copy as path.