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The Resolve edit is now pretty good. A few shortcomings still need to be addressed like layout flexibility, giving a second monitor option, etc., which I am sure will be dealt with in future.

Any chance of making a standalone NLE, Which can work on lesser specced machines?

That will be a great boon to the editors.

There already are a bunch of NLEs that work on lesser specced machines that have UI customization. Why not use those?

Tero Ahlfors wrote:There already are a bunch of NLEs that work on lesser specced machines that have UI customization. Why not use those?

fully agree. if you use a professional piece of software then you need to conform your equipment to its requirements otherwise you end up with some half-baked 'not quite there' piece of software.

i can fully appreciate the daunting prospect that building a suitable pc/mac to handle resolve can evoke, but if you're serious about editing, make a living from it, work with other professionals, then you really can't compromise.

as tero rightly points out, there's a plethora of very competent 'prosumer' nle's that will run on any modern hardware and offer the user a pleasant editing experience, however, once you need the tools to do more complex projects, then no matter what nle it is, you're going to need some serious hardware otherwise a pleasant experience can turn unpleasant very quickly.

Resolve 12.5 (still downloadable) works just fine on older configs. We've installed it on a few to have a free and solid NLE on them.

Leslie Wand wrote:

Tero Ahlfors wrote:i can fully appreciate the daunting prospect that building a suitable pc/mac to handle resolve can evoke, but if you're serious about editing, make a living from it, work with other professionals, then you really can't compromise.

The other thing to point out is that Resolve will run on lots of lower-end computers; you start bumping up against your system's limitations mainly when you start using features like Optical Flow, upscaling low-res footage, or multi-node color grades. As a case in point, I've been testing Resolve for basic editing and simple color grades over the past six months on a 2014 i5 Mac Mini with 8 gigabytes of RAM and integrated Intel graphics. It has been totally fine (I've even been able to use Optical Flow); the only noticeable issues I've encountered are when I implement complex color grades and Resolve's built-in "looks" that use multiple nodes, and at that point the GPU can't keep up. But so far I haven't encountered limitations when editing, adding transitions, etc.

This suggests that for basic editing, you could likely run Resolve as-is on a lower-end machine; we don't need a "Lite" version.