Glimpses requires Mac OS X Yosemite and costs just $24.99 (Mac App Store link). They were extremely pleased with the quality and speed with which I was able to put it together. I’ve already used Glimpses to create a video greeting card for family, and a product intro video for a client. I really love this little app, it works as advertised and doesn’t try to do too much. I’ve been in touch with Matthias Gansrigler at Eternal Storms and he tells me that he’s well aware of this limitation, and hopes to address it in a future release if possible.
It’s a bit of a pain, but not too difficult to work with. So if you have your photo duration set to half a second, but you want the first one to stay on screen for five seconds, you simply have to have 10 copies of the photo set to appear in a row. You can get around this by placing duplicate photos in the editing window. For instance, it would be cool to have the first photo stay up for a second or two while leaving the rest of them set to half a second (or whatever). I almost hesitate to call it shortcoming, but the one thing that bothered me was the inability to set any particular photo duration independently of the rest of them. But the coolest thing is that Glimpses recognizes faces, and moves the photos to keep them in the frame. You can also have Glimpses remove any pillars and letter-boxing.
When you’re done, you simply export the video at the resolution you want, ranging from 240p all the way up to 4K. If your soundtrack is too short for the number of photos you have, you can add additional soundtracks, or loop it. If you set the duration yourself, the soundtrack will fade out when all the photos have been displayed (like the video above). You can choose anywhere from 0.1 to 4 seconds, or you can let Glimpses figure it out based on the length of your soundtrack. Once your photos are in order, you choose a soundtrack and set the duration you wish your photos to appear. Once the photos are in the editing window, you can re-order them any way you wish, including: manually, by date, title or color (a very slick feature). You simply add a whole bunch of photos to the main window by selecting them from your Photos app collection, dragging from the Finder, or importing them from Flickr or Instagram. Now keep in mind that I paid no attention to the size, shape or resolution of the photos I chose-so don’t judge Glimpses by what you see in the video. Glimpses’ sole purpose is to quickly and easily create high-quality video montages-dozens, or even hundreds of photos flashing by for fractions of a second, set to music-like the one you see above. That’s why I appreciate simple little apps like Glimpses (formerly known as Briefly) from Eternal Storms Software. Sometimes editing in iMovie, as simple as it is, is overkill for my needs. Do you have any inside info on whether that will happen? I can contact the developer, but thought I’d check in case you already know.I don’t do a whole lot of video work, but I do throw together quick videos for friends and family. I’d love to try Yasu, but it’s not been updated for Mojave/10.14. It can even perform a search as the root user to go inside all folders, and the fast search works with modern APFS-formatted drives.
It’s fast (uses the magic that allows searching a whole volume extremely quick), offers lots of options to add criteria, has a great results browser, and importantly will search everywhere.
It is like the classic Mac OS search function (pre-Sherlock), which was really my favourite ever. I absolutely love this utility, and have remapped ⌘-F in the Finder to launch FAF instead of the Finder’s spotlight search (which I’ve remapped to ⌘-⌥-F). Hey Randy, great site, and thanks as always for being so generous with your encyclopaedic knowledge of Mac software! Two things:Ĭan I recommend that you include Find Any File? It can be used free, but asks you to register for $6 (well worth it in my opinion).