✏️  SCRIBBLE for DaVinci Resolve
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Animated hand-drawn text, dropped straight onto your timeline.
Type a word → click → it lands as a transparent clip at your playhead.


WHAT YOU NEED
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• A Mac with Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4)
• DaVinci Resolve **STUDIO** (the paid version)
  — The free version of Resolve cannot load plugins. This is a Resolve
    limitation, not ours. Everything else about Scribble is free.


HOW TO INSTALL  (about 30 seconds)
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1. Double-click  “Install Scribble.command”

   • macOS may say it's from an unidentified developer. If so:
     RIGHT-CLICK it → Open → Open.  (You only do this once.)

   • It will ask for your Mac password — that's needed to copy the
     plugin into Resolve's plugins folder.

2. Quit DaVinci Resolve completely (Cmd-Q) and reopen it.

3. In Resolve's menu bar:
       Workspace ▸ Workflow Integrations ▸ Scribble


HOW TO USE
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1. Type a word in the Scribble panel.
2. Pick a style (Scribble / Sketch / Pen), tweak size, color, effects.
3. Park your timeline playhead where you want the text.
4. Click “Place on Timeline.”

It renders a transparent ProRes 4444 clip and drops it on a new video
track right at your playhead, sized to the clip underneath. Turn on
“Subtitle mode” to lay a sentence out word-by-word.

The generated clips are stored in:  ~/Movies/Scribble


PREFER NOT TO INSTALL ANYTHING?
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There's a free web version that runs in any browser (no install, works
on any computer or phone) — you can download a transparent PNG sequence
or video to drop into any editor:

   https://scribble-text.netlify.app


TROUBLESHOOTING
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• “Scribble” isn't in the Workflow Integrations menu
    → Make sure you have Resolve STUDIO, fully quit & reopen Resolve.

• The panel opens but says it can't connect
    → Quit and reopen Resolve once more; the bridge initializes on launch.

• “Place on Timeline” does nothing
    → Make sure a timeline is open and your playhead is on it.


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