 If you work with audio files, video files, or PDFs, or any other files for that matter on the Mac, then this video is for you. Hello and welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec, and it's another one of those pretty broad introductions really, because yeah, if you're a Mac user, then this is really a great little app that I'm gonna tell you about today. And without further ado, it is an app called Permute, and I'll tell you how you can get it. It comes as part of the Set Up Bundle, which is part of a theme that I'm doing this week, because I think it really is a great way to get access to lots of fantastic little apps. So this one that I'm talking about today, though, is for specifically converting files, so converting movie files from one type to another, or audio files from one type to another, or maybe you want to strip out the different tracks of a movie file to separate the audio or things like that, or maybe manipulate PDFs and things like that. There is lots and lots of things that you can do with it. And I did a video about another application called Downey that allows you to download video from the internet, and I'll leave a link to that video up in the top corner, and also down in the description as well. But that is actually by the same developer as makes this app. So if you remember that video, if you did watch that video, you'll remember how very complex the user interface was, and I'm being sarcastic there. Well, this one is very similar. If I show you what it looks like, there you go. That is the user interface for the app, and all you do is you simply grab a video file or an audio file, and you drag it on. So in fact, here is the video file from the video that I did yesterday about Downey. So if I just simply drop that onto there, there we go, it's appeared there. And all I can do in here, all I need to do rather is I can just click on here and choose any other video format, and you can see I can change it to a different video format, or I could also just extract the audio from it or even make it an iPhone ringtone out of it. So that is how you do that, and then you simply click the little play button to start, and it will start the conversion. I won't do it now while I'm in the middle of recording because I don't want it to suddenly start making this conversion while I'm trying to do all of this, but you do have other options in here, so you can actually crop the video. So if you wanted to change the size of it, maybe make it more suitable for, there we go, well, that's a bit of a large picture on the screen, sorry about that. But you can, as I say, crop the size of the picture, scrubbing forward to a different point in it, and then you can change the crop, the height, so instead of 1920 by 1080, maybe we might want it a square, and then you can move this over, so you just can just crop out that middle bit. So for example, if you wanted to take one of your videos and just quickly and easily crop it to use it for Instagram or something like that, then this would be a way to do that. And then there are some presets that you can set for this as well, but one other thing that you can do on here is there is some slightly more advanced features. So as with, was the case with Downey, it looks very simple as an interface, but if you really want to dig into it, there are some, as I say, some advanced features. So what I'll do is I'll go into the preferences and give you a little idea of what those are, just come after that for a moment. So in the general settings, this is all pretty basic really, the transparency, so there is a slight transparency on it, so you can change that. Then also change some default formats, so NTSC or Pell. And then also what to do when the processing finishes, either player sound, quick permute, bounce icon in the dock, or automatically clear the list. So this list in here, you can have them all disappear once they've converted. Again, these are all pretty much personal preference really, it's just up to you how you want to have them. Automatically detect external subtitles and you can change the encoding of that to the type of text it is. I'm guessing most people can pretty much leave those things as they are. You've got another option as well to add them to an iTunes library or Apple Music library or whatever it happens to be and even put them into a specific playlist if you want. So that is how you would do that. And then you've got the thing here, if you want to clear your history. And then there's some presets in here. I won't go through all of these because these are basically, if you remember where I could choose the type of video. So we've got all these different types of video output here and the audio output. Well here for each one of those in that list, you have the options in here to go through and just tweak the settings. As I say, most people I'm guessing can pretty much leave these as they are. But you can just go in through each one and just have a look at the video quality where they use hardware acceleration in order to improve the performance of the conversion and the speed of the conversion I suppose and so on and so on and so on. I'll leave you to look through all of those because as I say for most people they can pretty much leave those as they are, I would guess. Back into the presets and I'll leave this workshop just for a moment. But we've also got some different groups. So the way that you group the different conversions, things like that, you can change those in there. Personally, I don't bother with that if I just come back out. Some more advanced features. Again, I don't want to get bogged down in these but they're just simple things like the sub folder hierarchy and the directories. So this is to do with how it's actually going to save these files once it saves them to your disk. Again, most people can leave these as they are. Do we want to move the original file to the trash? Well, I don't want to do that because usually I'm dragging something from my hard drive to this to do a conversion to use somewhere else. So I do definitely want to keep the original. I haven't actually changed any of these settings, by the way, just so that you know, this is all the default settings. We've also got automatically start conversions from external sources. So you can actually have it so that if you have an external source, such as Downey or something like that, then it will start converting automatically. So that is on because if you have Downey, other app that I talked about, then these two work quite well together. So that's why you would have that on and so on. But again, these are all pretty just standard procedures, really, standard settings that we don't need to change. And the debug is just for obviously, if you have any issues. But this other area here is one that I wanted to focus a little bit on. This is an area called workshop. And this is where you can add some extra functionality that isn't included as a sort of simple drag and drop into the main interface. So this is really for audio and video. But if you come over to this workshop, we have actually got some other functions that you can add in and I'll tell you how to access these a little bit later. But here we can do all of this other stuff. So for example, it's worth running through these actually one by one just because some of these I think you're gonna think that is really useful. So first of all, we've got, if I just activate my promiles for a moment, apply PDF filter. So this applies a filter to a PDF file, including size reduction. So if you've ever wanted to sort of batch reduce PDF files or a single PDF file to make it smaller, then you can do that with this. There are other ways of doing it as well, but this just has got this simple drag and drop interface which I do quite like. Color replacement. So I can replace a certain color in a video with another color. So if you've got certain color correction that you need to do, you can do that with this. Q and EDL cutter. I'll be perfectly honest. I'm not entirely sure what that is, but I don't use it. But maybe it means something to you, but it doesn't to me. So I've got to move swiftly on and act like I know what I'm talking about. But I'm not sure what an EDL cutter is. I'll have to go and research that on a little bit. A little bit more. I can't even speak now. And then there's a few others in there that similarly, I don't really use for IP cameras, things like that, MP4 web optimization. It's not something that I've ever encountered. So it's something that I haven't realized that I need yet. So, but that's something to do with allowing MP4 files to be able to be played from the web when they're only partially downloaded. So again, not something I've run into. However, metadata editor, I can talk about that. That's quite useful. Being able to edit the metadata of MP4s and so on and MP3 files quite easily and add sort of batch editing to it. Multi preset. So you saw where I could convert a file into a cropped file for Instagram or something like that. Well, this now allows you to do a batch editing where you drop one file and then it will convert it into multiple different files. So that is quite useful. PDF merge, this is one of those things that's like really simple and you wouldn't necessarily get the app for just that. But when it's built in, it is very useful. So that basically allows you to drop multiple PDFs into the interface and then it will just merge them all together into one single PDF, which is quite useful. Another one is to PDF to images. So if you've ever wanted a particular image or a page as an image out of a PDF, this simply splits the PDF into a series of images, one for each page. Next one, text encoding conversion. So converts files from one encoding to another. And this is quite handy because it is specifically related to things like closed captions for YouTube. So you can convert them from SRT files, which is the standard captioning file format into text and so on. Next one, text to speech. I've got it highlighted here as active. And by the way, I should just point out that any of these that you want, you simply put a little check next to them and I'll show you the interface for using them afterwards. I haven't actually tried this one, but this converts text files into a speech file. So I need to just play around with that one, but I've just noticed that today and I've just activated it. So I'll let you know how I get on with that. And the next one is track export. So this allows exporting of individual tracks of a video file. So for example, if you wanted to extract the audio, maybe there's multiple different tracks in there or just whatever the tracks may be, then you can export those from there. Now in terms of using these sort of extra functions, that is done from, if I just move this preferences window out of the way, what you'll see is where we've got the main window here. Then just down at the bottom, we've also got this other thing which says permute workshop. And all of those things that I just showed you are classed as sort of workshop modules. So if I click on that, then that brings up, I'll put it on another screen. It brings up this and it's basically the same sort of interface, the same simple drag and drop. And all you do is you just drag your files on there. So this was the PDF filter. So you can see you can change the black and white, reduce the file size, reduce the brightness, the darkness and so on. And then this one was for the color replacement of the video. So you can, for example, change a green to a target color. You could change that to a transparency. So if you wanted to change a green screen to a transparency, you can just do that by dragging it and dropping the file in here for a video. So that's quite powerful. Just let that sink in for a moment. If you've ever tried to get rid of a green screen without any software, then yeah, I mean, sometimes I create overlays in keynote for video, but it's very difficult to get a green screen removed from the middle of a keynote animation to be used as a video, but this can just do it. So that's quite handy. Metadata editor, basically all of those things that we've just looked at in the workshop. So that is as simple as it gets. It's just drag and drop and it performs those actions. And so as you can see, it's quite powerful considering what a small little application it looks and how unassuming it looks from the initial screen that loads up when you load up the app. And once again, this is part of my series this week all about great little apps that you can get as part of the SetApp bundle. And SetApp is just $9.99 a month, and yet you get access to over 200 different apps. And so if you head over to takeonetech.io slash setapp, then you can get a two week free trial where you can download this and all of the other apps if you want and try them all out for two weeks and see if you like them and see if combined they're all worth to you more than $9.99 a month. And if you do actually sign up using my link, then you will get an extra free month once you sign up and I will also get a free month once you sign up as well. So everybody wins out of that. But as I say, it's just such a useful little app and there are plenty more useful apps as part of the SetApp bundle as well. And so that's what I'm gonna be focusing on this week. So if you found that useful, please go ahead and like the video, leave any comments or feedback that you've got. I'd love to hear them. If you're using this app or any other apps that are similar or any of the other SetApp apps, then do mention them down below as well. And in the meantime, until the next one, I will leave a link to my SetApp playlist over on the bottom right and another great video on the top right. So until then, have a great day.