MalibuReview is a full professional video player — JKL shuttle, frame-accurate scrubbing, A/B loop review, real-time audio meters — built around streaming Final Cut Pro's output live to a director, under 50 ms latency, with frame-accurate markers. No screen share. No cloud upload. No Frame.io.
CMIO Extension · LiveKit WebRTC · AES-256-CTR · PocketBase · Apple TV
MalibuReview activates the CMIO Extension as a virtual camera directly in FCP.
6-digit code. Director opens MalibuReview on iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV and connects.
H.264 hardware-encoded over LiveKit WebRTC. Latency under 50 ms. Director sees exactly what the editor plays.
Reviewers set frame-accurate markers at the critical frame. Markers appear instantly at the editor. Export as FCPXML, EDL, CSV, or PDF.
Frame.io, Vimeo Review, Wipster — all upload-based. MalibuReview streams live from Final Cut Pro, without a single file leaving the production infrastructure.
The CMIO Extension taps FCP directly — hardware-encoded H.264, no screen capture. The director sees exactly what's in the FCP output, in broadcast quality.
Markers are tied to real SMPTE timecodes — including drop-frame (29.97DF). Not frame indexes, not timestamps. When exported as FCPXML they land pixel-accurately on the frame.
AES-256-CTR, in-memory decryption — footage never lands unencrypted on any storage. For productions with NDAs, screener approvals, and piracy prevention.
The director sits at the living room TV or screening room and watches the live stream on Apple TV — with biometric proxy auth via iPhone. No laptop, no meeting link.
Multiple videos side by side with a synchronized playhead — for A/B comparisons, grading reviews, alternate cuts. Frame-accurate sync, unlimited streams.
Built-in mini-DAW for music supervision: audition candidates directly against the live edit stream, set Q-point markers, export cue sheets — without leaving the app.
Set voice markers straight from an iPhone — on-device speech recognition turns spoken notes into text markers, no tablet or keyboard required for directors.
Draw directly on the live picture — for framing notes, compositing comments, or VFX callouts, with full Apple Pencil support on iPad.
Screen-recording blackout prevents capture, forensic watermarks make every session traceable, and access expires automatically — built for festival screeners and awards reviews.
Full professional transport control — JKL shuttle, single-frame stepping, and slow-motion scrub — the same muscle memory editors already use in Final Cut Pro, now for reviewers too.
Set in and out points and loop a section on repeat — for scrutinizing a single cut, transition, or VFX shot frame by frame.
A live, repositionable audio meter sidebar shows true peak levels as the stream plays — catch clipping, silence, or sync issues before they reach the mix.
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Other review tools require an export or a screen-share link. MalibuReview reads the FCP A/V output directly — no intermediate step, no waiting.
What runs in the editor's FCP output is encrypted and ephemeral. No cloud server stores footage. Ideal for screener reviews, NDA productions, unreleased cuts.
After the session: FCPXML export, import into FCP once — and all markers are frame-accurate on the clips. No manual transfer, no lists to type.
Directors watch on the big screen in the living room or screening room. No video call platform, no shared window — just the MalibuReview tvOS app.
FCPXML for a direct reimport, EDL and CSV for Premiere workflows, PDF for note distribution, plus Frame.io export for teams that work there.
MalibuReview is a B2B platform for production companies and post-production studios. Write to us — we'll set up your access.