Last week I posted my craziest Mac experiment in a while — a script that handles adding and updating myriad BetterTouchTool Touch Bar (and menu bar) widgets. A couple of days after I posted it, I ended up adding some widgets for Zoom that may actually be the most useful of the bunch.

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My day job requires a lot of Zoom meetings. A lot for me, at least, coming from an indie dev world where Zoom meetings were mostly for occasional pandemic gatherings of friends and family. Now I’m in Zoom every day, multiple times a day.

I wanted easy buttons for controlling mic, camera, and sharing without having to focus the Zoom app. Keyboard shortcuts are ok, but they don’t provide visual feedback. So I found a plugin for my Stream Deck that did the trick nicely, letting me control Zoom functions outside the app with indicators for mute, camera, sharing, and even a Leave button for getting out of a meeting in one tap.

Having more to do with my Stream Deck than with the plugin, though, I kept getting communication errors that rendered the buttons useless at inopportune times. It always worked perfectly in testing, but then in an actual Zoom meeting I’d frequently be met with the yellow triangle that indicates plugin communication failure. So I decided to replicate the plugin in my Touch Bar.

Borrowing heavily from the code by Martijn Smit, I created mic, camera, sharing, and leave widgets for BetterTouchTool. These can all be installed and operated by the btt_stats.rb script I posted about last week. And all of the installation and usage information is in the README.

The widgets all show current status of their respective feature, toggle its state, and disappear when no meeting is active. You can even set them up to refresh their display within 1 second, instead of the 4-5 seconds the Stream Deck plugin takes to catch up with changes (owing to BetterTouchTool’s scriptability, not any shortcoming in the original code).

The scripts use Accessibility scripting to click the menu items, so you don’t have to assign shortcut keys. That also means that menu titles are hardcoded, and English-specific. However, I added a whole section to the config file where you can enter the menu titles for a different language and get the buttons to work with just a little translation.

Anyway, just a brief addendum to the craziness. See the original post for more details, and find the whole shebang on GitHub.

Effortlessly edit clips, videos, and movies with the help of this user-friendly and efficient Windows-only movie and slideshow creator

Finding a basic, free video editor is not something particularly difficult, even though it does require a lot of invested time since there are so many out there. If, however, you are looking for a simple video editor for Windows 10 specifically, then you give FilmForth a quick try out.

FilmForth markets itself as a free video editor/slideshow maker, and it has a wide range of tools to help basically any user, regardless of his or her experience, make nice videos by combining video clips, photos, music, transitions, and even text captions.

FilmForth’s primary features explained

For starters, it’s worth noting that the app supports the app supports a wide range of media formats such as JPG, BMP, GIF, WEBP, MP4, WMW, AVI, WEBM, TS, 3GPP, M4V, MOV, MKV, MTS, M2TS, WMV, M4A, AND MP3.

In terms of video editing, it is safe to say that FilmForth has the basics covered. It allows you to make movies from photos and video clips, split, trim, rotate, flip, and join videos, add transition effects, detach the audio, freeze frames, and even enhance them with the help of a few effects such as Clarendon, Gingham, Moon, and Lark.

Improve the overall quality of your videos with various secondary tools

Additionally, you can add and edit text captions. The text itself can be formatted in various ways as the app allows you to change the font, the font’s size, as well as add various effects such as bold, italic, and color. As mentioned before, adding background music to your videos is also something this app can help you with.

You can add samples from a built-in library, or import music from your personal collection. You can also add voiceover effects, split, trim, and adjust the volume of the audio, as well as add various fade-in or face-out effects. There’s also something called picture-in-picture. It allows you to split, trim, rotate, flip, join, and combine videos and add smooth transition effects.

Conclusion

Taking everything into account, FilmForth is a decent video editor/slideshow maker that has enough features to make it worth your while. It may not be the most feature packed video editor out there, and its interface is definitely not what you could call top-notch, but if you’re looking for a simple video editor for your Windows 10 PC, then you should give this app a chance.

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