Markers for DaVinci Resolve from a timed transcript
Every marker, chapter and sound label you add while recording lands on the Resolve timeline as a marker, at the frame it happened, in the color Resolve expects.
DaVinci Resolve reads markers from an EDL the same way it writes them: one event per marker, the color in the comment, the frame counted from the start of the timeline. D-REC writes exactly that file.
Each spoken line is cyan, a marker you dropped is red, a sound label is green, a chapter is blue and a to-do is yellow. Each is one frame long and no two share a frame, so the markers stay separate on the timeline instead of stacking.
Markers count from 01:00:00:00 at the start of the recording, or from your camera's timecode if you typed it in, so the EDL lines up with the camera's clips without an offset.
Open the recording, press RESOLVE, and import the EDL onto the timeline with the recording's audio. The transcript comes with it as a CSV with the same timecode, so a marker and its words point at the same frame.
OPEN D‑RECAlso on Android, Mac and Windows: every way to get D‑REC.
Questions people ask
Which version of Resolve?
Any version that imports timeline markers from an EDL, which every current version does.
Do I need the free or the Studio version?
Either. Marker import is in both.
Can the markers use the camera's timecode?
Yes, when you type the camera's timecode into the recording. Otherwise they count from 01:00:00:00 at the start of the recording.
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