From a plain-English brief, to a draft edit inside DaVinci Resolve Studio 21.
Creative edits, music beat sync, social clips, B-roll cutaways.
Hours or days saved on every project.
Sollestro is an AI assistant editor for DaVinci Resolve Studio. Describe the edit you want in plain English and it assembles a complete first cut from your footage: clips chosen, ordered, trimmed, beat-synced, with B-roll laid over your interviews. In Photo mode it does the same for your stills: describe what to keep and Sollestro selects your keepers from thousands, right inside DaVinci Resolve as flags, or out to Lightroom as ratings.
Bring your own Claude API key, install in a click, and start with a free 14-day trial. Windows and macOS. Watch tutorials →
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Open your DaVinci Resolve Studio project - or, in Photo mode, point Sollestro at a folder of RAW images. It maps your clips or photos and gets ready to work.
Click Analyse. Sollestro sends frame samples, transcripts and photo previews to Claude, which scores every clip and image for content, quality and editorial value.
Run AI Edit and Sollestro builds the timeline - beats synced, B-roll laid in. Run AI Selection and it flags the keepers, or writes star ratings for Lightroom.
Hours of footage, or thousands of photos, become a first result in about 2 hours or less, whatever the size of the project. Most of that time Sollestro works on its own while you shoot, quote or grade.
No timelines full of settings, no templates. Write what you want in plain English, the way you would brief a real editor, and get back an edited timeline or your flagged keepers.
As far as we know, Sollestro is the first AI photo selection built for DaVinci Resolve. Keepers land as flags and a Keepers bin, ready to filter on the Photo page, or as ratings and labels for Lightroom, Capture One and Bridge.
Every detail of the process is in your hands in the app, from the brief and the prompt it builds to the model, scope and settings for each step. A log tracks every tiny step it takes, so you always know what it did and why, and you watch the AI cost live. The result is a normal Resolve timeline: nothing proprietary, nothing locked.
Sollestro works straight inside DaVinci Resolve Studio and lays the finished edit onto your timeline.
Click Run AI Edit and Sollestro builds the whole edit from start to finish.
From a plain-English brief, Claude keeps, rejects and picks the best of each burst, and flags the keepers inside DaVinci Resolve, or writes ratings for Lightroom.
Reads the embedded preview from any RAW - Canon, Sony, Nikon, Fuji and more - so Claude can judge every shot.
Writes colour labels and star ratings as XMP that Lightroom, Capture One and Bridge read instantly - no Resolve needed.
Add a music track and Sollestro detects the BPM, then lands every cut on the beat for reels and music-driven edits.
Uses Resolve transcripts to read speech and pick the best moments from interviews, vox pops, speeches and podcasts.
Lays B-roll over your interview clips on a second track so the audience sees footage during speech.
Write your brief in everyday language and Sollestro builds the prompt that drives the edit or the selection.
Handles footage from professional cameras including BRAW, RED and ARRI via proxies.
The first analysis is cached and reused across every future edit, selection, variation and cutaway run.
When Anthropic releases a new Claude model, Sollestro picks it up automatically.
Sollestro flexes to how you work. Pick Video to build an edit, or Photo to select your keepers - and choose whether the results are written straight into DaVinci Resolve, or out to a folder of files for Lightroom, Capture One and Bridge. Click a mode to see it.
Video Mode · Resolve. Describe your edit in plain English and Sollestro analyses your footage, then assembles a complete timeline inside DaVinci Resolve Studio - clips chosen, ordered and trimmed for you.
I am Lucian, a commercial videographer and 3D artist based in Hampshire, UK. I built Sollestro because I was losing whole days to the first assembly pass on interview-led edits, the tedious part before the real craft begins.
It is the tool I wanted for my own commercial work, so I made it properly. When you email support, you reach me, the person who built it.
One payment. Yours to keep, all updates included. No subscription required.
Subscribe for $19/month or $149/year - same app, cancel anytime. The one-time licence works out cheaper inside a year.
SubscribeTry Sollestro free for 14 days - full Video and Photo modes, no commitment.
Start free trialYou pay Anthropic directly for the AI. Typical projects land $2–$10 in API spend, and Sollestro logs every penny in-app.
Not the originals. Your footage and photos stay on your machine - Sollestro sends only frame samples, short transcripts and downscaled photo previews to the Claude API for analysis.
No. Anthropic's API does not train on customer data by default. Your clips and images are not used to improve any model.
You bring your own Claude API key and pay Anthropic directly. A typical project lands $2–$10. Sollestro shows the live cost in-app and logs every penny - and there's a cheaper Batch mode for big photo jobs.
Yes. Point it at thousands of photos and Claude keeps, rejects and picks the best of each burst from your brief. Verdicts land as Resolve flags and a Keepers bin, or as XMP for Lightroom - your choice.
Yes. In Folder + XMP mode Sollestro writes a colour label and a 0–5 star rating as XMP - a sidecar for RAW, embedded for JPEG/TIFF - that Lightroom, Capture One and Bridge read straight away. Resolve isn't needed for this mode.
Yes - Windows 10/11 and macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel). The same licence key works on both.
For video and the Resolve photo workflow, yes - Studio 21 or newer (Sollestro uses scripting APIs the free version doesn't expose). The Folder + XMP photo workflow runs without Resolve at all.
Start with a free 14-day trial. To keep going, choose a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-off licence - each is a key you paste in once, valid on up to 2 machines. You always bring your own Claude API key.
Yes. As well as the free 14-day trial, every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. If Sollestro is not for you, email within 30 days for a full refund. Refunds are processed through Lemon Squeezy.
No, not unless you want it to be. You can buy Sollestro once and own it forever, with all updates included. The monthly option exists only if you would rather spread the cost.
No. It does the slow first assembly so you spend your time on the craft. You keep full creative control and finish in Resolve as normal.
Resolve's built-in AI tools are utilities like search, masking and upscaling. Other AI editors mostly tidy an existing cut or assist on a subscription. Sollestro builds a full creative first cut from your brief, including beat sync and B-roll, you own it once, and it includes photo selection.
