Permute
Everything you need to work with media files
309 followers
Everything you need to work with media files
309 followers
A powerful yet easy-to-use media converter for macOS. Convert video, audio, images, PDFs and more — in just a few clicks.
This is the 4th launch from Permute. View more
Permute 4.0
Launched this week
Permute is a quick image, audio, and video converter. You can use it for files of all formats because Permute can convert anything into anything (almost). For water to water-to-wine conversion, you’d have to refer to other authorities, but media files can become whatever format you need them to. Plus, Permute also has some additional goodies like merging two videos into one or adding a subtitle track.
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I’ve used @Permute forever (I hunted Permute 3.0 seven years ago!!), so I was nervous but hopeful about @charlie_monroe's promise that “everything changed but you’ll still feel at home”.
After beta testing it for a while leading up to launch, I can confirm that he was right.
This isn’t a shiny-new-app launch so much as a deep refactor of a Mac workhorse: rewritten UI using Apple’s newer frameworks, better presets for modern hardware, cleaner cropping, stronger metadata handling, and Workshop folded back into the main window as file actions.
Also: RIP DVD authoring. 📀😅
I don't even remember the last Mac I bought with an optical disk drive — which is why I'm glad that Charlie's still maintaining this app — now there's less tech debt, fewer weird legacy branches, and a much more comfortable home for the stuff people actually use Permute for now.
@charlie_monroe Thanks for sharing your work!
The @Permute tool will be useful on my design projects. Will it be able to handle conversion to and from SVG format vector graphics?
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@underuncertainty SVG -> bitmap yes. Bitmap to vector no.
Have never had one clean tool for all my media conversions on Mac, usually I juggle three. A full rebuild that still feels at home is the hard kind to pull off, nice work. For batch jobs, can you save a conversion preset and just drop files onto it later, or do you set it up fresh each time?
the preset layer is the part i'd sweat most — abstracting formats is easy, but hiding whether a job hits videotoolbox or falls back to software is where the speed/quality surprises come from.
the water to wine bit in the description is the kind of copy that tells you this was written by someone who actually enjoys their work. four launches on the same product over multiple years suggests a user base that keeps coming back and recommending it. that kind of quiet loyalty is harder to build than a viral launch
Can I create a batch job and apply another audio track to all files in the batch?