Path Flip — Mac ⇄ Windows

Convert paths between macOS smb:// and Windows UNC format, save reusable prompts, and crop images to any aspect ratio.

Path Flip bridges the gap between macOS and Windows network file shares for VFX artists, 3D animators, video editors, designers, and system administrators. Stop manually reformatting server paths in chat messages, emails, and production tickets. Path Flip converts file and folder paths between macOS Finder (smb://, /Volumes/) and Windows Explorer UNC (\\server\share\) automatically, with intelligent path splitting, clipboard integration, a dedicated Image Crop Studio, and an interactive 3D Camera Angle prompt generator. 100% OFFLINE & STUDIO PRIVATE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Operates completely on your local machine. • Zero telemetry, zero analytics, zero external network requests. • Ideal for studio environments with strict IP, NDA, and security policies. CORE FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. ⚡ SMART PATH CONVERTER (Mac ⇄ Windows) • Automatic Direction Detection: Paste an smb:// link or a \\server\share UNC path — Path Flip detects the source OS automatically. No switches or toggles needed. • Intelligent Path & Filename Split: When a path points to a file, the output formats the parent directory on one line and the filename on the next line for fast copy-pasting into file dialogs. Folder-only paths return just the directory. • Space & Special Character Handling: Cleanly resolves %20 URL encodings, escaped spaces from macOS Terminal, and spaces in filenames. • Robust Edge-Case Support: Intelligently handles quoted paths ("...", “...”), brackets in folder names (e.g., "Shots [v2]"), versioning folders (e.g., "V1.0", "Project.2024"), and paths wrapped in email or chat formatting. • One-Key Workflow: Press Enter to convert and copy immediately to your clipboard. 2. 🪟 WINDOWS DUAL OUTPUT TAB • Dual Preview: Paste any network path and view both the split Windows UNC path and the single-line macOS smb:// path simultaneously. • Dedicated One-Click Copy: Click "Copy Windows" to copy the split folder + filename, or "Copy Mac" to copy the full smb:// URL for macOS users. • Multi-Line Batch Conversion: Paste multiple paths line-by-line; Path Flip converts every line in parallel. 3. 🖼️ STANDALONE IMAGE CROP STUDIO • Full-Featured Photos-Style Cropper: Drop an image onto the Crop tab or press Ctrl+V to open a dedicated cropping window. • 16+ Standard Aspect Ratios: Freeform, 1:1 (Square), 16:9, 9:16, 4:5, 3:2, 2:3, 4:3, 3:4, 21:9 (Ultrawide), and more. • Precise Framing: Drag handles, rule-of-thirds grid, live W × H pixel dimensions badge, and 1px nudge with keyboard arrow keys (Shift for 10px). • Transform & Canvas Tools: Rotate 90° clockwise/counter-clockwise, flip horizontal/vertical, mouse-wheel zoom, and pan image beneath the crop frame. • Lossless Export: Save as copy in PNG, JPG, or WebP format with custom dimensions, or copy directly to clipboard (Ctrl+C). The original file is never overwritten. 4. 🎥 3D CAMERA ANGLE & AI PROMPT STUDIO • Interactive 3D Camera Staging: Position a virtual camera around a 3D subject card in real time. • Visual Gizmos: Intuitive handles for camera rotation (azimuth), height (elevation), and distance, with Shift-snap for cinematography angles. • Real-Time CAM Viewport: Bottom-right picture-in-picture viewport displays exactly what the virtual camera sees, simulating 24mm, 35mm, 50mm, 85mm, and 135mm focal lengths. • AI Prompt Generation: Automatically formats camera position into prompt syntax for Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Dall-E: - Standard terminology ("three-quarter low angle shot") - Comma-separated tags - Natural descriptive sentences - AI parameter format with aspect ratios (--ar 16:9) • Custom Subjects: Drop your own reference character or image onto the 3D card. 5. 🕒 SEARCHABLE HISTORY & REUSABLE PROMPTS • 200-Item History: Remembers your last 200 path conversions locally. Search by project name, filename, or server, with instant one-click re-copy. • Reusable Snippets: Save, edit, and organize frequently used render parameters, review notes, pipeline commands, or prompt templates. SUPPORTED PATH FORMATS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • macOS smb://: smb://SERVER.local/share/path/file.ext • macOS /Volumes/: /Volumes/share/path/file.ext (Finder "Copy as Pathname") • Windows UNC: \\server\share\path\file.ext • Windows Forward-Slash: //server/share/path/file.ext • Authentication URLs: smb://user@SERVER:445/share/... • Deep Network Paths: Arbitrary folder depths, unicode characters, and studio server configurations. KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Enter: Convert and copy output to clipboard • Ctrl+V / Cmd+V: Paste path or image from clipboard • Ctrl+S: Save cropped image • Ctrl+C: Copy active crop / prompt to clipboard • Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y: Undo / Redo crop transformations • Arrow Keys: Nudge crop 1px (Shift + Arrow Keys = 10px) PERMISSIONS DISCLOSURE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • clipboardRead: Used strictly on-demand when the popup opens to detect if a network path or image is on the clipboard for immediate conversion. No clipboard data is ever sent off your device. • storage: Uses chrome.storage.local to save your conversion history (last 200 items), prompt snippets, and preferred tab locally in your browser profile.