Make apps, solve problems
A future blog post about using AI tools in production is coming up soon, but in the meantime building apps to solve everyday problems continues in my post-production video creation creative world. I’m the storage, workflow, backups, Mac management, techno healer. My clients are the creatives. They make cool stuff, so we have to safeguard it.
And while I don’t archive often, when I do, I use Archiware P5 🤩
And yes, that’s a joke because my clients backup and archive everyday and restore just as much. So keeping the P5 servers healthy is my job. And to help with this I made a P5 Health Check menu bar app (as well as mac app and bash script). To check drive cleaning status and uptime and a few things. In case anyone wants to be alerted of these things in the Menu bar. I know I want to know.
And for the fancy new Media List restore feature in P5 v.8 (which is very useful!) I created a FCPXMLD to FCPXML converter because the File -> Export menu in Final Cut Pro will give you a directory with XML inside of it, but I wanted to find those and rename them for use in P5 Archive, So yeah another app. Useful tools I use, my clients use, and now you can too.
You can check them out here: https://code.matx.ca/