SparkFX Deck — turn your phone into a control surface for DaVinci Resolve
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SparkFX Deck

A visual control surface for video editors, built on the tablet or phone you already own. Fast access to DaVinci Resolve — and to the files, links, documents and resources the edit runs on.

Windows and macOS. Resolve-specific tiles require DaVinci Resolve Studio.

33 tile types No hardware Best on a tablet
An editor at a Resolve edit bay reaching over to tap a tile on a tablet propped beside the keyboard, the tablet showing a page of SparkFX Deck Action Tiles and the Marker Navigator

The problem

Editing is a memory game you keep losing.

Resolve has hundreds of commands. You use maybe thirty regularly and can reliably recall twelve. The rest live in menus, and every trip to a menu is a break in flow. Meanwhile the things you reach for constantly — a logo sting, a lower third, the client's brand colour, a stock SFX folder, the render queue — are not commands at all. They are stuff, scattered across folders, bins and apps.

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Action Tiles

Build it your way.

Design the deck on the desktop. The exact same deck appears on your phone, your tablet and any second browser on the network.

Spark Action Tiles deck: Resolve and Activate Resolve tiles, a Local Time tile, a wide In/Out slider, Loop Playback, a Timeline Scrubber, app shortcuts for YT Studio, Discord, Pixabay, Pexels and ChatGPT, a Media Gallery, Marker Navigator, a live render-status tile at 79 percent, transport controls, and a SparkFX tile, in a mix of tile sizes

Any grid up to 12×12

Tiles span any rectangular footprint. Mix compact 1×1 controls with a 2×2 feature tile or a full-width strip.

Drag, resize, edit

Drag to move, drag edges to resize, right-click to edit. A footprint picker previews the new size, highlights anything it would overwrite in red, and asks before it commits. Undo and redo throughout.

Style every tile

Label, text colour, font, solid fill, gradient, a Material Symbols icon or your own image. Pick an app and the deck grabs its real icon automatically.

Button Editor dialog for an Open Link tile: Action fields for the browser link and tags, Appearance controls with a gradient colour picker and icon image type, a Grid Footprint picker with width and height fields, and a live preview of the finished tile with a checkmark icon and the label Your Link
A tablet and phone on stands beside a desktop editing monitor, all three showing the same SparkFX Deck: coloured Action Tiles for Resolve, local time, In/Out, Loop Playback, a Timeline Scrubber, Media Gallery, Insert Media, Markers, a render queue and Spark Viz, with the Resolve timeline visible on the desktop behind them

The catalog

33 tile types.

Resolve control, SparkFX tools, system actions and utilities. Every one of them assignable to any footprint on the grid. The Resolve tiles work with DaVinci Resolve Studio; the rest run on their own.

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The difference

These tiles are alive.

A physical deck can fire a hotkey. It knows nothing about your project. SparkFX Deck tiles are live readouts and interactive controls — they read your timeline and drive it back.

A hotkey pad can send a keystroke. It cannot show you your markers.

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A phone held up showing a SparkFX Deck page with Local Time, Loop Playback, Resolve and Media Gallery tiles, an In/Out tile and a render-queue readout, with the Resolve timeline visible on the desktop monitor behind it
The SparkFX Deck window: Action Tiles on the left with playback control, Resolve Scripts and a countdown, and the Marker Navigator on the right listing colour-coded markers as cards with timecode and thumbnails
A SparkFX Deck navigation page: a full-width Timeline Scrubber tile showing timecode 01:00:50:11 with marker pips, a 5s Loop Playback tile, transport controls with 1x, 2x and 4x shuttle, and a Marker Navigator tile showing four markers
Spark Notify open in the browser: a Render Monitor card showing Job 17 at 72 percent with elapsed and remaining time, resolution and frame rate, a Last Render card with playback and folder actions, and a history list of completed render jobs with render stats
Spark Marks open in the browser: a Save Location button followed by a grid of saved timeline positions, each a thumbnail card with its project, timeline and timecode, ready to jump back to
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Shared tiles stay in sync across every screen viewing the same deck. A countdown started on the phone shows the same time on the desktop.

In the edit

The trips you stop making.

Most of what slows an edit down is navigation and fetching. These tiles remove the trip entirely.

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Media folder

One tap to insert.

Point a tile at a folder and the Deck shows you what is in it — photos, video and audio, laid out to look at rather than listed by filename.

Tap a file and it drops onto the timeline at the playhead. No bin, no import dialog, no hunting through folders on the desktop.

Insert Media dialog showing a folder of 13 items in grid view, with filters for All, Video, Audio and Images, a search field, and a grid of photo and video thumbnails including stock footage, a drone shot and B-roll stills
Spark Review in the browser: a cut playing with a note track of coloured pins beneath it, a field to add a note at the current frame, and a panel of timecoded notes tagged General, VFX, Edit and Audio with Done and Agree actions

Spark CutNotes

Watch it back where you are.

Pull up your videos and play them on the device in your hand. Sit back from the desk and watch the cut the way it will actually be watched.

Add a note at the current frame and it pins to the exact timecode, tagged as edit, VFX or audio. Draw boxes and arrows right on the frame to call out exactly what you mean, then mark it done or agreed, so the pass you made on the sofa is waiting for you on the timeline and in your renders.

The surface

Your phone becomes the surface.

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A tablet and phone on stands in front of a desktop editing monitor, all showing the same SparkFX Deck of Action Tiles for Resolve, local time, In/Out, Loop Playback, app shortcuts and a render queue, with the Resolve timeline visible on the desktop behind them
SparkFX Deck pairing dialog: a six-digit connection code to enter on the new device, IP address redacted, with a note the code expires in five minutes and a Deny/Cancel button
SparkFX Deck paired confirmation: a green checkmark, Paired, Windows PC is connected, IP address redacted, stays paired for 30 days

More than tiles

The whole studio comes with it.

The Deck's home screen gives the device a dashboard of your most-used actions, Quick Links for saved media, folders and links you can insert straight into Resolve, and visual timeline bookmarks with thumbnails.

Eight SparkFX tools run directly in the phone browser

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Plus a launcher

Other eligible SparkFX tools open back on the computer, launched from the device in your hand.

Set up in 60 seconds.

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Start fast

Start from a ready-made deck.

SparkFX ships system tile sets — designed decks that work out of the box on desktop and phone, and update automatically.

Copy any system set into your own sets to customize it.

Export and import tile sets as .spxtiles packages, images included — hand a deck to an editor on another machine.

A shipped Dashboard system tile set: a full-width Local Time tile with an animated starfield, tiles for Insert notify1 sound, local time and Insert circle-check, and a row of folder tiles for Downloads, Your Project Folder and the SmartEditTutorials media gallery

Power features.

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SparkFX Deck works on every install. Most tile types are free and unlimited, and the free deck is a real deck — not a demo. A handful of tile types and the larger multi-set, multi-page layouts unlock with a SparkFX subscription.

See plans and products

Questions.

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A control surface you already own, that can actually see inside your timeline.

Put that old tablet back to work and start editing faster.

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Windows and macOS. Resolve-specific tiles require DaVinci Resolve Studio.