Chris Hocking - From Open Source to Mac App Store (2023)

Chris Hocking, filmmaker and co-owner of Late Night Films, shares his journey from open-source macOS tooling to publishing on the Mac App Store. He walks through CommandPost — a Lua-powered Final Cut Pro automation tool with over 150,000 downloads — then demos BRAW Toolbox and Gyroflow Toolbox, Final Cut Pro extensions that let filmmakers work natively with Blackmagic RAW footage and gyroscope-based video stabilisation without transcoding. Chris closes with practical lessons from Mac App Store sandboxing, FxPlug APIs, and negotiating open-source licence changes to enable App Store distribution. From Melbourne CocoaHeads No. 162    • Melbourne CocoaHeads No. 162   Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:41 CommandPost 4:08 BRAW Toolbox 7:59 FxPlug & Workflow Extensions 9:10 Live Demo 12:36 Gyroflow Toolbox 14:04 App Store Experience 19:38 Q&A 30:42 Outro --- Melbourne CocoaHeads — a community of iOS & macOS developers in Melbourne, Australia. https://www.melbournecocoaheads.com/