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Introduction

CommandPost is a free and open source Mac application that allows you to seriously speed up your creative editing process through powerful and customisable automation tools. Think Apple's Automator, with a little bit of BetterTouchTool and Keyboard Maestro thrown in, but specifically designed for creative professionals.

CommandPost has over 3300 active monthly users and over 1507 users in our Facebook Group.

Built on-top of a powerful and flexible plugin architecture, CommandPost provides an open platform where editors worldwide can easily create and share useful tools to make their editing lives easier - allowing them to spend less time worrying about keystrokes, and more time doing creative things. We want to remove boring workflow obstacles so that everyone can get home earlier and spend less time in front of a computer.

For those that know how to do basic coding, building plugins for CommandPost will also be a breeze, as they're created using the powerful, fast, and easy-to-learn Lua - the same scripting language used by Blackmagic Fusion, Adobe Lightroom and even parts of Apple iOS. It's also fully compatible with Hammerspoon.

It's currently focussed on Apple's Final Cut Pro, however the road-map is to add useful functionality for other tools we use on a daily basis, like Adobe After Effects, mocha Pro and DaVinci Resolve.

You can listen to Chris explain CommandPost on Final Cut Pro Radio Episode #57 and Episode #43.

Sponsor

To help continue CommandPost to grow, evolve, and stay completely free and open-source, we offer the ability to sponsor CommandPost directly through GitHub.

GitHub will kindly match user contributions up to USD$5,000 until November 2020.

GitHub also covers all the transaction costs, so 100% of your contribution hits our bank account.

If we can raise $5K for both Chris & David, this means GitHub will double the amount, and we can dedicate a couple of months to CommandPost development.

  • You can sponsor Chris on GitHub here.
  • You can sponsor David on GitHub here.

GitHub Sponsors works on a monthly subscription model, but you can cancel at any time, so you can just make one big donation and cancel after a month, or do smaller monthly contributions.

If you're new to GitHub you may be presented with a "Your GitHub Sponsors contribution will not be matched at this time" warning. This is just temporary, as GitHub needs to verify brand new accounts internally to prevent fraud and abuse. Once verified your contributions will be matched.

Alternatively, you can also make a donation via PayPal (but would prefer you did a one-off payment through GitHub instead so they match your donation).

You can read the GitHub Sponsors FAQ here.

Custom Tools

If you have a specific post production workflow problem you need to solve or automate, we can help.

We've developed custom plugins and solutions for post production studios, production companies, and individual editors all over the world.

For example, we developed a transcription plugin for Apollo: Missions to the Moon (edited by David Tillman) as well as specific CommandPost features for Denmark's second largest production company, Metronome Productions.

The FCPXML Titles Processor in CommandPost is another example of a commissioned tool.

[Email us](mailto:[email protected]?subject="Custom Tools") to discuss your specific requirements.

Videos

Here's some awesome videos made by members of our community:

Features

CommandPost has hundreds of useful professional features. Here are some of our favourites:

Final Cut Pro

  • Scrolling Timeline
  • Save & Restore Browser Layouts
  • Batch Export from Timeline
  • Highlight Browser Playhead
  • Pasteboard Buffer
  • Color Inspector controls on the MacBook Pro Touch Bar (or using Duet)
  • Watch Folders
  • Shared Clipboard & Clipboard History
  • Timeline Zooming with Mouse Scroll & Modifier Key (includes Magic Mouse)
  • Mobile Notifications (Prowl, Pushover & iMessage)
  • Apple Watch & Android Wear notifications (via Pushover)
  • Enable Rendering During Playback
  • Ignore Inserted Camera Cards
  • Advanced HUD with FCPXML & Pasteboard Editor

Finder

  • Make Pasteboard Contents Uppercase/Lowercase, etc.
  • Windows Management/Resize Tools
  • Shortcut for Un-mounting External Drives
  • Enable/disable chime sound when laptop power is connected

For more information check out our User Guide.

Control Surface Support

CommandPost has native support for the following devices:

Download

You can download the latest release here.

We also post regular pre-release and beta builds in our Facebook Group.

You can review the release notes and download previous versions here.

Please review our license agreement and privacy policy before downloading.

System Requirements

CommandPost requires macOS Sierra 10.12.1 or later (including macOS Mojave & Catalina).

It supports Final Cut Pro 10.4.4 or later (including Final Cut Pro 10.4.8).

It requires Accessibility Permissions, so you'll need your computer's Administrator Password.

macOS Catalina also requires Screen Recording permission. Some features may now require Full Disk Access.

Customisable & Virtual Touch Bar support currently doesn't work on the new 16-inch MacBook Pro. This is fixed in the beta releases and will ship soon.

Support

The best way to get support is via the CommandPost > Provide Feedback button in the CommandPost menu.

You can also post issues and feature requests on the CommandPost GitHub Page. Registering with GitHub is free, and we actively monitor these requests.

Alternatively, you can always email us via [email protected].

Authors

CommandPost was originally created by Chris Hocking as a proof-of-concept to make finding the Final Cut Pro browser playhead easier for Scott Simmons (you can read the origin story here).

It's now developed and maintained by Chris Hocking & David Peterson through GitHub.

Special Thanks

  • Our family for putting up with us, especially Karen, Erica & Nigel the dog.
  • Kevin Luk, Daniel Daperis, Nicholas Colla and our entire team at LateNite Films.
  • The CommandPost logo was designed by the very generous and talented Sam Woodhall.
  • The Stream Deck icons were created by Daniele Di Tuccio.
  • The CommandPost-App is a fork of Hammerspoon. Thank you to EVERYONE in the Hammerspoon Community for all their help!
  • Aaron Magill and Chris Jones for all their on-going help and support with Hammerspoon – they’re both truly awesome people. CommandPost wouldn't be remotely possible if it wasn't for their brains and constant help and support. Thank you, thank you.
  • Andrew Madsen for all his help and support with MIKMIDI.
  • Andy Knox and the team at Tangent for all their ongoing help and support.
  • The INCREDIBLE Andrew Kramer at Video Copilot for giving the world FX Console for FREE – and also inspiring me to rip off his genius idea and include a “console” feature in CommandPost!
  • Bill Cheeseman at PFiddlesoft, for all his help with UI Browser and his very generous GUI Scripting advice.
  • Andreas Verhoeven & Robbert Klarenbeek for the work they’ve done with Touch Bar Demo App - which Aaron Magill very kindly ported to Hammerspoon.
  • Julien Chichignoud for all his amazing coding advice, maths problem solving and support.
  • Iain Anderson & Sarah Kimberly Euschen for their beta testing, encouragement and general awesomeness.
  • Vigneswaran Rajkumar for all his detailed bug reports and testing.
  • Cail Young for all his knowledge, advice and wisdom.
  • Roger Bolton for all his help and advice.
  • Alex Gollner, Scott Simmons, Isaac J. Terronez, Tim Webb, Андрей Смирнов, Michael Matzdorff, Shahin Shokoui, Ilyas Akhmedov and everyone in the FCPX Editors InSync & FINAL CUT PRO X EDITORS Facebook Groups for all their ideas and advice!
  • Thanks also to all our awesome Facebook Community!