October 10, 2023

Working with videos using Fast Video Browser

Another tool in the DummyApps lineup is Fast Video Browser, which as the name implies, is a fast view browser. This is a tool I use on a regular basis to help me find videos, remember what a video is about so I give it a better name, help search for duplicates, and delete videos I no longer need. Fast Video Browser has a couple of features that make it more efficient and capable than more expensive video catalog tools. Fast Video Browser is an easy, but powerful way of going through a series of videos. Do you have multiple resolutions? Is the video out of date? Can you delete it to save space? Is the entire video playable? Fast Video Browser is great for reviewing files on an external drive, or in archive folders. It’s great for comparing files, such as which is the trimmed video file and which is the completed one? I use this all the time […]

October 8, 2023

Viewing images with iSee Image Browser

Another tool from DummyApps, this time for images, is iSee Image Browser, which I use for quickly finding, sorting, and deleting images. But, with so many image viewers what makes this one different? I prefer iSee because of the cost, browsing layout, it doesn’t make a catalog, and the image sorting. There are lots of other features, like zoom, rotate, side by side layout, top vs bottom layout, search, and adding files from multiple locations into a single view, and slideshow. I’ve used iSee to review, move, and delete thousands of images. I can pick my images, drag them to Retrobatch, move them to another folder, remove them from the “catalog” or delete them off the drive. iSee is also smart enough to read selected files, a folder, or folder and subfolder. And no need to worry about other file formats, if it’s not an image type, iSee skips it, no errors or throwing up. Another very handy feature of […]

October 5, 2023

✂️ Trimming Video with Video Cut, Crop and Join

As part of making ambience compilations I need to trim a lot of videos. And that means I want to trim them not process or re-encode them. After looking at dozens of choices, Video Cut, Crop and Join handles this task in mere seconds. I admit, the UI is pretty minimalist, the documentation even more so, so it can come across as confusing. However, it’s quite easy and there are only a couple fields to fill in: The tasks are added to the queue at the bottom. You can then play the finished file, delete it if something went wrong, or select multiple processed files and join them together into a new file. If you want to convert between formats, change the Convert Rule. Options for the Convert Rules can be found in Preferences. I don’t use the Crop, Join, or Convert features, and mainly focus on trimming video. So many tools want to recode the video or cost a […]

October 3, 2023

The Halloween Ambience Project

As I mentioned before, I’m working on a Halloween Ambience project using the Mac Pro 2013. This is a good project for that machine since it involves video and audio. If you haven’t tried, go to YouTube and put in a search for “Halloween Ambience,” there are some fun videos out there with fun soundtracks you can use at Halloween. My goal is to take some/most of those videos, split them into smaller clips, and play them on my machine as a Halloween compilation. It makes for a nice loop full of Halloween goodness. Since these are YouTube videos, the first task is to download them locally using Downie. Once downloaded, depending on audio, I extract it using Permute and store it as MP3. I can play that as background music or maybe an audio loop. Now that I have the file and the full audio, it’s time to trim it down since I only want 20 minutes for my […]

October 1, 2023

Downloading Video and Audio using Downie and Permute

Once you find the right keyword, topic, or channel, YouTube is a rich source of content, and tools for downloading videos are commonplace. In fact, you can’t turn around without running into a YouTube downloader. There are dozens of similar looking and sound apps like YT-Saver, VideoDuke, Wondershare Uniconverter, Wondershare AllMyTube, Allavsoft, Bigasoft, Cisdem Video Converter, VideoPro, not to mention all the browser extensions. There are so many of them they all start to look alike. They’re made by different companies, right? So, with all these “free” tools, do you need a standalone video downloading app? If you want one or two videos, then no, but if you’re looking to download a series of tutorials, an entire channel, or extract some audio so you can listen to it offline, then yes you do, and you should look at Downie and Permute combo from Charlie Monroe. Downie handles the downloads and audio extraction for new files, while Permute handles conversion between […]

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