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Category: Tricks And Tips

  • Screen recording and other tricks

    QuickTime has a neat little trick that some may not know about, it can record your screen.

    QT-ScreenRecord

    Use it to record a how-to video how to navigate System Preferences, or how to use Final Cut Pro, or record a MacDevOps:YVR talk.

    The first two MacDevOps:YVR conferences needed to be converted to a suitable format for YouTube and using QuickTime screen recording + Soundflower is the way I chose to do it.

    Note: Soundflower is needed to redirect the audio to QuickTime. Screenrecording with QuickTime does not capture the audio without Soundflower.

    MacDevOps Screen recording steps

    1. Install Soundflower (Soundflower-2.0b2.dmg)

    https://github.com/mattingalls/Soundflower/releases/tag/2.0b2

    1. Set audio output to SoundFlower 2chSoundFlower
    2. Set QT screen recording to Soundflower audio QT-ScreenRecord-SoundFlower-2ch
    3. Start screen recording (select screen area)
    4. Play website audio / video (Safari / Other )
    5. Stop both. Edit and trim QT video as needed
    6. Upload to YouTube
    7. Tag video (mdoyvr, yvr, MacDevOps, MacAdmin, MacIT), put in proper playlist
    8. Publish

    Addendum:

    I own Rogue Amoeba’s excellent Audio Hijack application and have used this app for audio capture (podcast interviews, etc), but I couldn’t get it to work in this case. It might have also required their Rogue Amoeba’s Loopback app which I did not own. Since I’ve used Soundflower previously I used it here in this case.

     

  • Umask fixes in Yosemite aka OS X 10.10.3 and shared storage

    Finally!

    Yes, Apple has restored the ability to set a user and system umask in OS X 10.10.3. This is a huge fix for users of shared storage. Xsan and all SANs where users want to be able to share files, projects and all things without using ACLs or any LDAP directory. This is great. I am jumping up and down. So happy. So many people wanted this. Anyone using shared storage have been demanding this since the upgrade to Yosemite. 10.10.3 is out today and we will be happy.

    Reference: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201684

    tl;dr

    sudo launchctl config user umask nnn

    and

    sudo launchctl config system umask nnn