Opus 4.8 and earlier use a 1M token context window (on any paid plan, at least). So it’s surprising that Anthropic quietly reduced this by 80% with Opus 5. You can get the 1M token context window back, though – you just have to enable Usage Credits. You don’t have to pay for any usage… Read more
When you drop a Cross Dissolve transition onto a clip in Final Cut Pro it applies the transition to both video and audio. That’s great – typically that’s what you want – but sometimes you don’t want that. Contrary to what you might read online or what the dumb robots might tell you (because they… Read more
It is possible to use the Tascam Portacapture X8 as an ADC, input converter, and mixing board for an iPhone, but there’s a few things you’ll need to know. Thankfully, any USB-C or USB-C-to-Lightning cable will do You just connect one end of the USB-C cable to the Portacapture X8 (to its built-in USB port)… Read more
It appears that each time tethering is enabled or disabled on the iPhone, it disconnects Image Capture. So if you have spotty cellular service – because perhaps you live in the United States, where that’s the only kind of cellular service on offer – you might find that happens so often that you can’t complete… Read more
This is basically a short written set of instructions derived from Cody Wanner‘s YouTube video on the topic, refined a little for simplicity and updated for the newer GUI in more recent versions of Final Cut Pro. So feel free to view that video if you prefer that medium. I just find I need to… Read more
Surprisingly, the best way (that I’ve found) to do this is to use The Unarchiver, a free app from MacPaw (the folks behind SetApp and many other things). It seems to faithfully extract the images as-is, including ICC profiles (which might technically be separate from the image within the PDF, but nonetheless are crucial to… Read more
AVPlayer doesn’t provide a built-in way to fade in or out. I previously described how you achieve a video fade-in (or out) using general CoreAnimation layer animation, as part of making a macOS screen saver. Now let’s tackle the audio. I’m not certain what curve this implements, but to my ears it doesn’t sound quite… Read more