Archive for the ‘OSX’ Category
OSX: How to trim a AVCHD, AVCLite (MTS or M2TS) on Mac without loss (i.e. rewrap vs transcoding)
Saturday, January 1st, 2011It can be tricky, especially on Mac, to trim AVCHD videos (.MTS or .M2TS) without transcoding the videos. Most tools, such as Adobe Premiere, Adobe Media Encoder, Apple Final Cut Pro, and most sharewares, will require to convert before trimming, which is a slow and loss-full process.
On Windows, Canon provides a tool to directly trim .M2TS files without any re-encoding. However, on Mac it is more tricky, and I had to do some digging and spend some $ to accomplish about the same thing.
After much research, I found a way with two softwares:
- ClipWrap ($50): This allow you to convert your .MTS to .MOV without any re-encoding (just a “rewrap” as it is called). In short, it’s super fast (almost as fast a coping the file), completely loss-less, and you can play the new .MOV file with Quicktime.
- MPEG Streamclip (fully free): This free software allow to open video files (.mov, .mp4), trim them, and just save them (without transcoding). Make sure to use the “Save As,” as the “Export…” will do the transcoding. I wish it would support AVCHD format so that we would not need ClipWrap.
Anyway, it interesting that despite the perception that Mac is more for Media friendly, such basic tasks require so much work (and research). Also, iMovie ‘11 AVCHD support is very poor, as you cannot just drag and drop them in the tool and require an import (i.e. transcoding). Luckily, I am using Adobe Premiere CS5, which works seemlessly.
Hope this help. Feel free to add comment or email me if you have any comment or suggestion.
OSX: Managing multiple iPhoto Library
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010- Moving Your iPhoto Library to an External Drive
- iPhoto Library Manager (free & paid). Allow to manage multiple iPhoto Libraries
OSX: Mac Color Picker as an App and HTML HEXA color extension
Friday, September 10th, 2010- Start AppleScript Editor (Applications -> AppleScript Editor)
- Enter text “choose color” in the script
- Save file as “ColorChooser.app” (select “Application” as file format)
- Installa HexColorPicker from LuckySoftware
- Double click on the ColorChooser.app
Note: while this is a nice little trick, go to Utilities > DigitalColor Meter (very cool tool which makes this little trick useless)
OSX: Install mysql on Mac
Wednesday, September 8th, 20101) Download and install the .dmg image
2) Fix the permission
sudo chgrp -R mysql /usr/local/mysql
You might need to do the following:
sudo chown -Rf :mysql /usr/local/mysql-5.1.50-osx10.6-x86_64/
This will set the _mysql group owner for all the subfolders of mysql
3) Start the MYSQL
sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql &
4) Create the supersecure root password
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root password supersecurepassword
5) symlink mysql
sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql /usr/bin/mysql
6) login via mysql
msyql -u root -p
7) Download and install Sequel Pro (the SQLyog for Mac)
OSX: Set Mac hostname (i.e. avoid perforce workspace issues)
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010To set the hostname of your Mac, do:
sudo scutil --set HostName myhostname.local
To check your hostname:
hostname
Source: Change the hostname in a Mac
This is particularly useful when using perforce from different location. Perforce link a hostname to a workspace, and OSX seems to take the hostname based on the network (in some occasions). So, you can end up with an error like:
Client ‘jeremy_MBPro_4′ can only be used from host ‘dyn105.sm1.corp.agkn.net’.
OSX: Add autocomplete for git on Mac
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010in the home folder (~), edit (or create) the .profile file with the following
# Set git autocompletion and PS1 integration
if [ -f /usr/local/git/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash ]; then
. /usr/local/git/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
fi
GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=true
if [ -f /opt/local/etc/bash_completion ]; then
. /opt/local/etc/bash_completion
fi
PS1='\[\033[32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[34m\]\w\[\033[31m\]$(__git_ps1)\[\033[00m\]\$'
OSX: Mac keyboard Shortcuts
Monday, August 16th, 2010- Shift + CMD + / : Show application help menu with search for all the application menu.
OSX: Java FAQ for Mac
Monday, August 16th, 2010OSX: TermHere to open terminal from finder
Saturday, August 14th, 2010