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Converting file formats on macOS

Converting file formats on macOS

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Converting file formats on macOS

- If you need to batch export several files there's a way to do that on your Mac using the tool called Automator. Now Automator taps into other tools on your Mac and lets you script them or set up a batch process which is again, processing multiple files. Let me show you how this works. You'll need to go to the finder here, navigate to your applications folder and launch Automator. Now you need to load in a workflow. So if there's anything in here on the right, just clear it out. What we need to do is a few options here. So we'll start off by typing in the word, Get. I'm going to choose Get Specified Finder Items and drop it in. And now I just need to add what I want to work with. So I can navigate to a folder of images. Let's go ahead here and choose the Native Convert, and you see it loaded up the path. Now I'm going to type in the word, Image. And I see some options here such as changing, change type of images. Now…

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