Match Cut for DaVinci Resolve

Try it free for 7 days, no credit card needed. Made by Kriss Norde, Blackmagic Design certified trainer.

The match cut, without framing every image by hand

The word that stays in place while the articles flash by, the face that does not move while the years go by: that is the match cut of documentaries and Reels. A text match cut on a headline, a face match cut through the years. In DaVinci Resolve, you zoom, shift and rotate every image by hand, one by one, and start over when a screenshot changes.

Match Cut opens next to your timeline. It finds the word, the face or the object on every clip, and lines them all up in the same spot, at the same size.

Make a match cut in DaVinci Resolve in three clicks

1. Select your screenshots in the timeline, or import a folder of images.
2. Click "Find common words" and pick the word. The panel viewer already shows the match cut.
3. Click "Align": your match cut is in the timeline, ready to export.

A text match cut, a face match cut or a logo match cut

For a text match cut, Match Cut reads the text of every screenshot and suggests the words found on most of them. A phrase of several words works too.

For a face, the eyes land in the same spot and the head keeps the same size, even when shot from closer or further away.

For an object, you frame a logo or a product once. Match Cut finds it in every other image, even slightly tilted or smaller.

Your word is lined up and you want to highlight it or circle it? Traces Pro draws the stroke for you. And for an animated title on top, there is Composer.

What it changes

A missed screenshot is fixed in two seconds

A red thumbnail flags a word that was not found. One click enlarges it with every word read: click the right one, or frame it, even tilted. "Next not found" takes you to the next one.

A rhythm that speeds up on its own

Match Cut gives each clip a new duration: a number of frames, a total duration or the tempo of your music. You draw the speed curve: slow at first, faster and faster, then slow on the last one.

A sound on every cut, placed for you

Select a sound in the Media Pool: Match Cut places it on the timeline, synced to every cut. Did you set In and Out points on that sound? It keeps only that part, the whoosh or the click you want to hear.

For variety, open a bin of sounds without selecting anything: a different sound lands on each cut, picked at random, never the same one twice in a row. Long sounds stay whole, spread over several tracks, or stop at the next cut, as you prefer.

Your timeline back the way it was, in one click

"Undo" reverts the whole last alignment: framing, durations, sounds and excluded clips.

What you get

The Match Cut panel for Windows, in English and French, with an installation and user guide in PDF. A license for two computers. Updates are included.

A text match cut of 20 screenshots means 20 images to zoom, shift and rotate one by one, to redo at the slightest change. With Match Cut, the match cut effect takes three clicks, every time.

Launch price: €25 instead of €35, for a limited time.

Try it free for 7 days, no credit card needed.

What you need

DaVinci Resolve Studio 21.2 or later, on Windows 10 or 11. Match Cut does not work with the free version: Blackmagic Design keeps panels like this one for DaVinci Resolve Studio.

On a Mac? Not yet: for now, Match Cut works on Windows only. The Mac version is coming soon.

Installing takes one move: you drag a folder to the right place, and the guide shows you where. No installer, no script to run.

Your next match cut can take three clicks.