#AERIAL SCREEN SAVER FOR MAC#
#AERIAL SCREEN SAVER MAC OS#
#AERIAL SCREEN SAVER MP4#
#AERIAL SCREEN SAVER INSTALL#

Your tab should look like the one in this screenshot:Īnd that’s pretty much it, now your screensaver is going to be the list of custom videos you will have checked in the folder you gave to Aerial. Also, set the “Check for new videos” to “Never”. Navigate to the “Updates” tab of your Screen Saver Options and untick every box.

#AERIAL SCREEN SAVER MAC OS#

Otherwise your screensaver will only display your video in Full HD.īefore I let you wander around in the profusion of settings Aerial offers, there is one last thing we need to do to ensure no conflicts with Mac OS Catalina will arise in the future. If your video is a 4K clip, you need to specify it on the right side of the list of videos as shown here. So if you only want to display one video, just check the video you want to display. This will tell Aerial to include this video in the list of screensavers to display once your computer will enter this mode. Now that you found your video, check the tickbox on the left of the name of your video.

#AERIAL SCREEN SAVER MP4#

mp4 so make sure your videos are in the right format or they won’t show up there. Once that is done, you should be able to find the name of your folders and the compatible videos it found in the list of videos of the Aerial screensaver. Now you can just paste your pathname in the required textbox that you opened a few seconds ago within the Screen Saver Options of Aerial. If you can not see the “Copy the Pathname” option, you may want to head over to this section of our article about various tips and tricks that will definitely improve your productivity while using Mac OS. Using your Finder, find where you stored the video(s) you want to use as a screensaver and either drag and drop the folder in the list of folders of your Screen Saver Options window or Copy the Pathname of the directory where your video is located. You can also drag a folder in this window if you do not feel like playing around with pathnames. This will open a dialog box asking you to enter a pathname. Find the “+ Add Folder” at the top left corner of this newly opened window and click on it. You will find yourself within a big window. Once these videos have been unchecked, click on the cog again and then on “Custom Videos…”. This will save you the hassle of turning off manually all of the videos that come pre installed with Aerial. Press it once and click on “Uncheck all”. In the Videos tab (The first one that opens after having clicked on “Screen Saver Options…” you will find a cog at the bottom left. Now, some things needs to be configured in order to have the best experience. Once you found it, select it and click on “Screen Saver Options…” located underneath the Preview window of your screensaver. For me, it was located at the bottom of the list. In order to access the Configuration dashboard of Aerial, we need to head over to the “Desktop and Screen Saver” window of our “System Preferences” application.Īfter that, head over the “Screen Saver” tab of your window Now that you have it, it is time for us to configure Aerial so it can display the video(s) of your choice. Simply double-click on it and follow the instructions in order to add it to your collection of screensavers. Once the file extracted, you should find a. We personally really like Keka, that provides a more secure solution over the native one provided with Mac OS. Now that you have the zip file, you can open it with the unzipping software provided with mac OS or with your own file archive.

#AERIAL SCREEN SAVER INSTALL#

In order to install the required software, head over to the releases link here and download the latest release available.Īt the time of writing, the release we are looking to install is 1.6.4 and you can download it by clicking on the link that you can find like shown on this screenshot:

#AERIAL SCREEN SAVER FOR MAC#

Aerial is a custom screensaver for Mac that brings you the Apple TV screensavers of Aerial movies that Apple shot over multiple cities around the world.

Aerial screen saver