B-Roll Studio MCP server

Lets Claude Code turn a topic into real b-roll on an editor timeline: search → download → judge → place on a timeline. Talks to the hosted B-Roll Studio API; needs only a personal API key.

Tools

Tool	What it does
search_broll	Real, relevant assets (images, stock video, YouTube, tweets, articles), each with a downloadable file. Supports mix weights + aspect ratio.
download_asset	Saves an asset to a local file.
place_in_resolve	Direct to timeline (DaVinci Resolve): appends clips to your open timeline live.
build_premiere_script	Direct to timeline (Premiere): writes a .jsx that appends clips to your active sequence.
build_timeline	Universal fallback: writes FCPXML + EDL + manifest for any editor.

Setup (any machine — no clone, no GitHub login)

Needs Node 18+ and the Claude Code CLI. Get a key from B-Roll Studio → Settings → API keys, then:

npm install -g github:Gaffattack54/broll-studio-mcp

claude mcp add broll-studio broll-studio-mcp -s user \
  -e BROLL_API_KEY=brs_live_your_key \
  -e BROLL_API_BASE=https://broll-studio-ten.vercel.app

Verify: claude mcp list → broll-studio: ✓ Connected. The server is now available in every Claude Code project on that machine.

Use one key per machine so you can revoke a single machine in Settings without affecting the others.

Use it

Open Claude Code in any project and ask:

Find 6 vertical b-roll clips and images of the New York City skyline, download the good ones to D:/edit/nyc, and build a timeline there.

Notes

• Only images and stock video download as the actual media. Tweets and articles render to image cards; YouTube returns its thumbnail still (with the watch link in page_url).
• place_in_resolve needs Resolve running with Preferences → System → General → External scripting using = Local, and Python 3 installed.