FOR DAVINCI RESOLVE STUDIO
Your grade is finished.
Your timeline won't play.
Grade Runner is a one-file Resolve script that disables only the heavy nodes — noise reduction, grain, blurs, OFX — so heavy timelines play back in real time. One click puts everything back before you render.
LAUNCH PRICE: $24.99
Launch price · $34.99 after launch · One-time purchase · Instant download
Requires DaVinci Resolve Studio · macOS, Windows, Linux
THE PROBLEM
You know this moment.
The grade is right. The noise reduction is doing its job. You hit play to feel the cut — and Resolve gives you a slideshow. So you take one of the three exits Resolve offers, and pay for it:
Bypass all grades
The all-or-nothing switch. Your whole look disappears, and you're judging pacing on an ungraded image.
COSTS YOU THE LOOK
Disable nodes by hand
Render cache
The image is right, but you wait — and the cache dies every time you touch the grade upstream.
Clip by clip, node by node — with no list of what you turned off. Nodes get left disabled and render wrong.
COSTS YOU CERTAINTY
COSTS YOU TIME
There's no way to say “turn off just the heavy-duty stuff, keep my look, and put it all back when I'm done.” That's the whole product.
HOW IT WORKS
Pick. Disable. Play.
Grade Runner scans your timeline and puts every effect it actually finds in the Effects menu — by its real name. Noise Reduction, Film Grain, your show LUT, Dehancer — whatever is in your tree is in the menu. There's no “supported effects” list to go stale; the panel reflects your timeline.
Pick the heavy ones from the Effects menu and hit Disable list — playback comes back, with the rest of your look intact. The list stays put after you use it, so the two buttons work as an A/B switch: grade on, grade off, grade on, at speed. In a hurry? Disable all switches off every node except your color management, your LUTs if you want them kept, and anything you've protected.
01 · By effect
A menu of every effect detected in the timeline, with node counts. It stays open, so you can pick several in a row. The main way you'll work.
The same menu for every node label in the timeline. For colorists who think in their own node names.
Type GLOW, CONV, sky — comma-separated terms catch every node whose label contains them, case-insensitive. Added on top of whatever's in your list.
02 · By node label
03 · By typed text
DELIVERY SAFETY
The fear was never slow playback.
It's rendering with a node still off.
Grade Runner records every node it touches, per project and timeline, and Re-enable works from that record — it switches back on only what it changed, and never guesses about anything else.
Timeline 1 · 46 nodes scanned · 0 disabled
A live count
Prep for Delivery
The status line keeps a running count of every node Grade Runner has switched off — zero means clean. If a grade changed so much that a node can't be matched, it's still counted and named in Resolve's Console, never left off silently.