Jan 27, 2007 Recently purchased a mac for the first time. Is there a plugin for Finder to display folder contents as video thumbnails? Otherwise, is there a Finder-like (or Windows Explorer-like) program that can show thumbnails of videos? Cost does not matter - I really miss this feature from XP. I am a recent Mac convert (about 3 months). I like everything about Mac OSX - everything but one thing: there are no previews in icon view for movie files. I have over 1000 home videos taken with various digital cameras over the years (.avi,.mpg,.wmv) and it is next to impossible to find the movie I am looking for.
Lossless rotation of JPG images and thumbnails | 10 comments | Create New Account
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If you're looking for a cross-platform, command-line way to losslessly rotate jpegs and their thumbnails, there's my 'rotimg' perl script: http://www.jwz.org/hacks/rotimg
I tried your script out and it threw up a whole slew of errors, but started with this:
This is Intel 10.5.2 with Developer Tools installed. Should something else be installed to make this work?
This is Intel 10.5.2 with Developer Tools installed. Should something else be installed to make this work?
I know almost nothing about Perl but you might try adding this as the second line to the script:
BEGIN { unshift @INC, '/usr/bin/lib/' }
You may need to install EXIF Tools http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
I have a script that worked in Leopard and it quit working in Snow Leopard. I suspect some things have moved. I found the missing files in the location in the added line. And based on some answers to similar problem found via Google.
Xee has done lossless jpg rotation for some time now. The relevant features are pasted here:BEGIN { unshift @INC, '/usr/bin/lib/' }
You may need to install EXIF Tools http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
I have a script that worked in Leopard and it quit working in Snow Leopard. I suspect some things have moved. I found the missing files in the location in the added line. And based on some answers to similar problem found via Google.
• Losslessy rotate and crop JPEG images. This lets you edit your digital photographs without losing quality by re-compressing them like most other editors do.
• View more EXIF data for JPEG files than Preview.
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In /dev/null, no one can hear you scream
In /dev/null, no one can hear you scream
Preview is actually able to apply the rotation correctly. The key is to use File > Save As... and uncheck the checkbox named something like 'Use EXIF direction' (I'm not sure of the precise text since my system is using danish as the main language).
'Use EXIF Orientation Tag' here.
The omnipresent GraphicConverter also does lossless JPEG rotation.
I'd rather use an easier way to rotate images, without the need to download an extra freeware. Open Terminal
and simply enter the following command :sips -r 90
(press space) drag and drop your image (whatever format) to the terminal window and press Enter
The end result should look something like this :
This will rotate the image 90° clockwise. Do do the opposite, enter 270 instead. It only turns CW, so you have to do the math...sips -r 90 /Users/youraccount/Desktop/Image 1.png
You can see all related options of
By the way you can do the same with a batch of images by simply applying the rotation to all images contained in a folder. The command is the following :sips
by entering sips --help
in the Terminal
. sips -r 90
(drag and drop your folder to the Terminal, remove the ending space) /*.png
The end result should be pretty similar to this :
sips -r 90 /Users/youraccount/Desktop/Folder/*.png
sips
can convert jpeg (Jfif & Xiff), TIFF, GIF, PNG
according to this Apple technical note. I haven't tested them all ;) How do you know sips is lossless? I haven't found that mentioned anywhere in Apple's Technote, the sips man page, or even its Image Events AppleScript interface.
I just created an Automator Workflow to rotate an image using sips on the command line, and it changes file sizes after rotation. It doesn't seem to be lossless at all.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
samrod
I just created an Automator Workflow to rotate an image using sips on the command line, and it changes file sizes after rotation. It doesn't seem to be lossless at all.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
samrod
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10.5: Strip icon previews for better Cover Flow view
I recently found this fix solved a similar issue for me. When I upgraded to 10.5 my music and documents icons were the old tiger variety and looked odd among the 10.5 subtle icons. Just deleting the icons in a get info window regenerated the proper icons.
10.5: Strip icon previews for better Cover Flow view
Great hint. I'd no clue it would be that simple. Dur! Thanks!
10.5: Strip icon previews for better Cover Flow view
To speed things up you can use CocoThumbX (freeware) http://www.stalkingwolf.net/software/cocothumbx/ to batch delete the icons of several files at once.
10.5: Strip icon previews for better Cover Flow view
Regarding the tip added by fds- I'm trying this method of deleting multiple preview icons at once, and it seems not to work at first. The ctrl-command-I opens a single info window (so does command-I if more than 10 items are selected), but when I select the icon and hit command-x, nothing happens. Interestingly, though, if I do a paste (with any icon in the clipboard) and THEN delete, it does work. Great!
10.5: Strip icon previews for better Cover Flow view
Why would you hit Command-X? Just hit the Delete button. :)
(That's the Backspace key for PC converts.)
(That's the Backspace key for PC converts.)
10.5: Strip icon previews for better Cover Flow view
I tried Delete. It doesn't work for me. So I hit Command-X. Why does it matter?
10.5: Strip icon previews for better Cover Flow view
10.5: Strip icon previews for better Cover Flow view
I had the same problem... the copy/paste worked, but I still could not see the images in cover flow. Relaunching Finder fixed the problem.
10.5: Strip icon previews for better Cover Flow view
Question is, is there a command tool utility that allows you to strip the preview image? (kind of a non-GUI CocoThumbX)?
10.5: Strip icon previews for better Cover Flow view
QuickImage will batch remove thumbnails or add thumbnails to image files.
Though some say that they can't get it to work in Leopard (maybe Intel related?) I've been using it on a G5 with 10.5.1 with no problems.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19253
Though some say that they can't get it to work in Leopard (maybe Intel related?) I've been using it on a G5 with 10.5.1 with no problems.
10.5: Strip icon previews for better Cover Flow view
tell application 'Finder'
set sels to selection
end tell
repeat with sel in sels
tell application 'Finder'
activate
set odate to modification date of sel
open information window of sel
tell front information window
set current panel to General Information panel
activate
tell application 'System Events' to tell process 'Finder'
keystroke tab
keystroke (ASCII character 8)
end tell
close
end tell
set modification date of sel to odate
end tell
end repeat