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Become a sponsor to Chris Hocking

I’m Chris Hocking, the original creator of FCPX Hacks which later evolved into CommandPost, a tool that adds automation and additional features to post-production tools such as Final Cut Pro X.

My day job is one of the founders of LateNite Films - a film and television production studio based in Melbourne, Australia. I take care of all the business and technical side of things, including overseeing a lot of our post production - which means I spend a huge amount of time inside Final Cut Pro X.

I definitely don’t consider myself a proper programmer - but I love solving problems using code. In addition to working on CommandPost, I also spend a lot of time working on Hammerspoon, which serves as the “engine” behind CommandPost, as well as maintaining FCP Cafe, Resolve Cafe and very commercial apps sold on the Mac App Store.


Why Sponsor?

CommandPost has been downloaded over 168K times, and has over 2.6 thousand users in our Facebook Group. Every day I get several emails, and social media messages from CommandPost users asking questions and/or requesting new features. Between running a small creative business, and supporting a young family, the amount of time I can devote to CommandPost is fairly limited. Being sponsored would mean I can set more time aside to focus on improving CommandPost.


Goals

Whilst David Peterson focusses on a lot of the big engineering challenges in CommandPost (such as improving test coverage, performance and simpler and improved internal APIs) I tend to focus on new features and pushing the boundaries of what CommandPost can do. As such, some of the areas I’d love to dig into include:

  • Adding deeper support for 3rd party applications we use daily such as Adobe After Effects, DaVinci Resolve & mocha Pro.
  • Adding support for “universal pasteboard translation” so that you can copy something in FCPX and paste it in Adobe After Effects or Resolve.
  • Adding support for new control surfaces
  • Ticking off the hundreds of existing things on our to-do list.

If you want to chat about any of things, join us in the CommandPost Facebook Group or email me directly at [email protected]. If you feel my work is valuable, your sponsorship will help me do more of it. Either way, I’m looking forward to hearing from you!

Current sponsors 4

@NigelRios
@Yuvalorr
@ivandepaz-editor
@funwithstuff

Past sponsors 22

@thjperry
Private Sponsor
@studiobelvedere
@narimangafurov
@knurrrrrrt
@nceberhart
@jchichignoud
@tonytangcom
@Fle4k
@Lydilove
Private Sponsor
@StephenLuksic
@slider38arg
@vadandra
@tangent-ak
@kwansheungchi
@guairao
@NikolajHviid

Featured work

  1. CommandPost/CommandPost

    Workflow Enhancements for Creatives

    Lua 392
  2. Hammerspoon/hammerspoon

    Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

    Objective-C 11,530
  3. latenitefilms/BRAWToolbox

    Help & Support for BRAW Toolbox

  4. latenitefilms/GyroflowToolbox

    Allows you to import Gyroflow Projects into Apple's Final Cut Pro

    Objective-C 22
  5. latenitefilms/MarkerToolbox

    Import Vimeo Markers into Final Cut Pro

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$1 a month

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Spare Change

You value the work we're doing with CommandPost, and are willing to throw us a $1 coin you find under your couch each month. This tier receives:

  • A sponsor badge on your profile 🏅

$2 a month

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Gold Coin Donation

You value the work we're doing with CommandPost, and are willing to throw us a $2 coin each month. This tier receives:

  • A sponsor badge on your profile 🏅

$5 a month

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Individual Sponsor

You value the work we're doing with CommandPost, and you value it as much as your Apple TV+ subscription. This tier receives:

  • A sponsor badge on your profile 🏅

$10 a month

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Fan

You're a big fan of the work we're doing with CommandPost, and you value it as much as your Netflix subscription. This tier receives:

  • A sponsor badge on your profile 🏅
  • A shoutout on social media 📱

$25 a month

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Devoted Fan

You're a really big fan of the work we're doing with CommandPost and you value it as much as your Netflix & Hulu subscriptions combined. This tier receives:

  • A sponsor badge on your profile 🏅
  • A shoutout on social media 📱
  • Access to the developers via email 📧

$50 a month

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Legendary Fan

You love and value CommandPost so much that you're willing to pay for it as much as for your mobile phone plan! This tier receives:

  • A sponsor badge on your profile 🏅
  • A shoutout on social media 📱
  • Access to the developers via email & Facebook Messenger 💌

$100 a month

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Bronze Sponsor

You represent a company/organisation that uses CommandPost, and finds it valuable enough to fund it. This tier receives:

  • A sponsor badge on your profile 🏅
  • A shoutout on social media 📱
  • Access to the developers via email & Facebook Messenger 💌

$500 a month

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Silver Sponsor

You represent a company/organisation that uses CommandPost, and finds it valuable enough to fund it. This tier receives:

  • A sponsor badge on your profile 🏅
  • A shoutout on social media 📱
  • 2 hours of technical support 👾
  • Mention on the CommandPost.io website 🖥

$1,000 a month

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Gold Sponsor

A company that's deriving a lot of value from CommandPost and is willing to fund it. This tier receives:

  • A sponsor badge on your profile 🏅
  • A shoutout on social media 📱
  • 4 hours of technical support 👾
  • Priority bug and feature requests 🎁
  • Mention on the CommandPost.io website 🖥

$5,000 a month

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Titanium Sponsor

Your company derives so much value from CommandPost that you're willing to invest substantially in it. This tier receives:

  • A sponsor badge on your profile 🏅
  • A shoutout on social media 📱
  • 20 hours of technical support 👾
  • High priority bug and feature requests 🎁
  • Mention on the CommandPost.io website 🖥
  • Mention in the CommandPost application 🎉