Overview

Tagger for Resolve watches your Media Pool, not your timeline. Open a project, click Tag, and it analyzes every clip: sampling frames, reading visible text and logos, identifying subjects, and classifying the shot. If a clip has spoken audio, it transcribes that audio locally and folds the speech into the keyword list. A full pass runs in under 10 seconds per clip, and the results write directly into standard Resolve columns, no plugin panel, no sidecar files.

The practical effect is a Media Pool you can search instead of scrub. A clip that used to sit there with empty Keywords, Description, and Shot Type fields ends up with something like 'woman, red jacket, waterfront, sunset, ferry, golden hour,' a plain-language description, and a shot classification covering size, angle, movement, and lighting. Every keyword becomes a keyword bin automatically, so narrowing 200 clips down to your golden-hour B-roll is one click instead of an afternoon of scrubbing.

Audio transcription runs locally through Whisper. No footage or audio leaves the machine: Tagger sends only a handful of low-resolution JPEG frames to the AI for image analysis, and those frames are discarded once processing finishes. Transcripts land in the Comments field, and speech-derived keywords merge into the same keyword list automatically. Clips with no dialogue are detected and skipped.

Tagger also reads file metadata to tag camera manufacturer, model, and color space, so an ARRI or S-Log3 keyword bin shows up without typing anything. Each clip gets a scene classification too (Interview, B Roll, Establishing, Insert, Cutaway, and more), written to the Scene column, which pairs with Smart Bins to build filters like 'all Wide shots at Golden Hour.'

Format support covers what Resolve itself can import: ProRes, native BRAW without a separate extraction step, H.264/H.265, DNxHR, and XAVC. Tagger requires DaVinci Resolve Studio; the free version of Resolve lacks the scripting API it needs to read and write metadata. Pricing is a single $99 purchase for unlimited files, with a free tier covering the first 20 files so you can check the output on your own footage before buying.