Could you do Davinci Resolve for Android iOS and iPasOS?

Doing DaVinci Resolve for Android iOS and iPadOS would be great as it can include the free version and the studio as in the Windows, Mac and Linux version with the Media, Cut, Edit, Fusion, Color, Fairlight and Deliver modules would be the first and best editing program for android phones, iphone and ipad

You really need a desktop to do this job, so...I vote no.

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I like the idea of having a free version on Mobile Devices.

i vote no.

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I like the idea of having a free version on Mobile Devices.

literally you're asking to pour hundreds of hours into a version that can benefit you personally and have the gut to ask it "for free"....

My bad I termed it as free rather than Lite version. I didn't really mean to put it in that way.

The fact that not many upgrade their pc but they upgrade iPad or other similar ones regularly and would have new features than their pc. In that mindset I had expressed my views.

Changing my mind now. I vote no.

The idea is not that bad.

I can totally see a mobile version that could be synced with a desktop install of Resolve, automatically.

BMD said (peter chamberlain in a ressent response) they don't have illimited resources. I imagine they have priorities around Davinci Resolve desktop for now (just a guess).

But I can see one day a mobile version of resolve on which we could do very simple edits on the go (there are many situations where even pro could benefit from it too).

I know people who edited relatively advanced videos with free mobile apps (and some with paid ones).

I think there is a market there especially if the mobile version is very well integrated with a desktop install.

It could even sync with Blackmagic cloud.. you do your edit on the battlefield, and your team on the other side finish the job. - That's an extreme example, you get my point.

Or you can be on location, with an idea for a video, do a quick edit on your phone/tablet, when you come back home, instead of having to remember what you were thinking at the moment, you just have your timeline synced with resolve because you would be connected on the same network, and you could continue from there.

The app could act as a mobile "companion" too. Just throwing ideas out there, like you're on the field, you want others (or yourself) to be able to have your scopes on another screen. It could be a phone or better, a tablette (it could be another resolve panel on it).

Anyway, I can see the potential.

I don't think we should discard this idea completely. - I will no

Well,

Since there is now a Davinci Resolve for iPads I see no reason why there shouldn't be a Davinci Resolve for selected Android devices.
It is strange BMD went with iPads, thought Resolve will be desktop app, regardless, now since BMD had enough resources to make it run on iOS and iPads, would be interesting to see the magic happen on Android as well. Of course with Android BMD would have to be picky and select the devices they support, like Samsung Tab S series or some other manufacturer, that has at least 4 or 5 years OS support for their tablets. But things are possible.

(Samsung comes to mind because they now are serious with at least 4 year OS support on their devices, their tablets and Fold series phones are very capable and I see a very powerful market there, heck, their fold phone/tablet actually brings mobile productivity to a whole new level. I really can see creatives travel and work on big projects with these devices).

Would BMD take a challenge to pioneer market though? Or will BMD be so fanatically focused on Apple ecosystem boundaries?

I suspect BMD could make things run well on iPads because the new Macs are running the M1 chip which is essentially the iPad CPU. Once they had Resolve working well on an m1 Mac they had a lot of the iPad version already done. Especially the GPU. Don’t know what GPUs are in Android devices but if they’re very varied then this might be a heavy ask - and likely for not that much gain for them. Just my thoughts.


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Good points, Joe.

I think, Danas, that considering that Blackmagic has extensive support for Windows, MacOS, and Linux, it wouldn’t be fair or accurate to say that they’re at all “fanatically focused on Apple ecosystem boundaries.”

While a LOT of work must have been put in by BMD developers to create the User Interface for iPad, as Joe points out, much of the underlying code must have been in place for the M1 and M2 processors in common between MacOS and iPad OS.

Whether their team develops Resolve for Android tablets too, I expect will largely depend on market share of the tablet market.

My $0.02
Android OS and the way it handles audio and video is incredibly limited compared to apple portable products hardware and software ecosystem. You can see that already with the very limited features offered by any app on android. Its not because noone wants to make fancy stuff, its because its not possible.

The variation in audio and video hardware acceleration is huge for android devices, and it would be a massive task to port something very very limited to android. The hardware and the OS are so limited and plain suck in comparison. I develop for both and android is not fun for high end audio or complex video. Let alone the fact that so much of the code is re-usable between apple computers and portables so the task is not that crazy, especially with the m1 chips. It is a no brainer that there will not be an android version in the foreseeable future, the hardware and OS are just not up to it. If you really dont like apple and want a tablet version look at some of the windows based convertibles. Realistically if you want a tablet version though buy an iPad.

I suspect BMD could make things run well on iPads because the new Macs are running the M1 chip which is essentially the iPad CPU. Once they had Resolve working well on an m1 Mac they had a lot of the iPad version already done. Especially the GPU. Don’t know what GPUs are in Android devices but if they’re very varied then this might be a heavy ask - and likely for not that much gain for them. Just my thoughts.


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kind of, I tried on my Ipad Pro pre M1 and it still run.

however, this will become a slippery slope very soon: " why resolve does not start on my iphone 6 anymore???? WHAAAAA"

Apologies, didn't have intentions to offend regarding “fanatically focused on Apple ecosystem boundaries.” thing.
I am keeping an eye on Resolve and use it from time to time on Linux since Resovle 8 or which ever version that became publicly very accessible, but didn;t have had any NLE capabilities yet. Ever since then all the marketing looked very much Apple products centric. This tendention seems to be very much still on. But this is my personal point of view and as I am not very much into nor favoring Apple ecosystem, I notice this. However it is my own personal problem and am just glad that BMD still has Linux and Windows support next to Apple operating systems.

Thank you very much for clarifying on technical details why Android version might be difficult to implement. As I am not a developer, there seems to be so many great android devices that appear to be extremely amazing technology and makes the one wonder why things doesn;t move there. For a regular person latest iPad or Samsung's top of the line tablet doesn;t seem to differ much in capabilities. But when knowing internal components matters and that whatever hardware is used in Android devices is actually not designed to handle pro-grade multimedia tasks makes sense why. This is kind a sad situation then. But who knows, things might change. Just a matter of chips. And people might be for a treat.