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Hello.
I've scoured the Blackmagic site and I can't find the OFX plugin SDK.
I've signed up for the developer mailing list but that didn't help, where on earth is it hiding?
Thanks.

Brent.

Contact support, you will also need to sign an NDA first. Edit: Sorry, that’s for Fusion!

Since I was in the same boat as you are, here's the answer.

You don't need to download anything extra if you have DR installed on your PC. Just check the Developer folder where Resolve is installed and you will find all the variations you could use to create a plugin.

For instance, on Linux, go to:

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/opt/resolve/Developer

You will have access to SDKs alongside working examples.

If you're after full control, and high end plugins, then look no further than the OpenFX one.

The OpenFX is a standardized SDK to write cross-platform plugins for a bunch of Hosts like Resolve/Fusion, Nuke (the inventor of the SDK), Naton, Vegas, Flame ...etc

Happy coding.

Hi Brent,

We do not have an SDK for DaVinci Resolve, however, we do have some extensibility options for developers:

• Programmatic control through the Resolve Scripting API in the form of python or Lua scripts.
• DCTL enables the user to define the required color transformation and use it in the color correction node.
• For developing plugins, both Resolve and Fusion also continue to support the OpenFX framework. See: 
  https://openfx.readthedocs.io/en/doc/index.html

All of our developer documentation is available from the menu in DaVinci Resolve under Help->Documentation->Developer.
Here you will find example code to get you started, including OpenFX plugin samples, python scripts and documentation of commonly used API functions.