> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://withbeckon.app/docs/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Drop actions > Convert, compress, edit, zip or send files on the way, by dropping them on the ring. Drag files to the ring and it has two more slots, after the Trash: * **Convert** shows the format you're dragging, such as **HEIC →**. Point at it and the formats it can become fan out. * **Actions**, the tools, has everything else: compress, crop, trim, redact, zip, send and more. Drop the files on one and it's done on your Mac in a moment, while you carry on. ![A HEIC photo dragged to the ring: Convert fans out JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, GIF, WebP, AVIF and PDF](https://mintcdn.com/beckon/MXIZljtnJiPCi970/images/convert-light.jpg?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=MXIZljtnJiPCi970\&q=85\&s=2facbc83f89e15a461f5dbbca8cd6172) **1. Start dragging files** From Finder, the desktop, Photos, Mail, or any app that lets you drag files. **2. Press the shortcut** The ring opens around the pointer with **Convert** and **Actions** after the Trash. It stays open while you drag, even if you let go of the shortcut. **3. Point at a slot, then drop on what you want** What fits the files fans out beyond the ring. Drop them on one. A note where you dropped them says how it's going, then where the result went; **Show** selects it in the Finder. ![Actions fanned out for a photo: Compress, Remove location, Remove background, Copy the text, Markup, Redact, Zip, AirDrop, Mail and Messages](https://mintcdn.com/beckon/MXIZljtnJiPCi970/images/actions-light.jpg?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=MXIZljtnJiPCi970\&q=85\&s=27f167603d9b1cd156491b6fe6fee5e0) ## Convert | Dragging | Can become | | - | - | | **Images** | JPEG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, BMP, GIF, WebP, AVIF, or a PDF (a page each) | | **Video** | MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV, AVI, WMV, a GIF (15 seconds at most), or its sound alone as M4A or MP3 | | **Audio** | M4A, WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3, OGG, Opus, WMA | | **PDFs** | PNG or JPG (a page each), plain text, Markdown | | **Documents** (Word, RTF, OpenDocument, HTML, text, Markdown) and **EPUBs** | Word, RTF, OpenDocument, HTML, plain text, Markdown, PDF; Word files to Pages or EPUB too | | **Pages** | Word, PDF, EPUB, RTF, plain text | | **Keynote and PowerPoint** | PDF, PowerPoint or Keynote, PNG (a slide each), a video | | **Numbers and Excel** | PDF, Excel or Numbers, CSV, TSV | | **CSV and TSV** | each other, Excel, Numbers, PDF | | **Subtitles** (SRT, WebVTT) | each other, plain text (what's said) | The format the files are already in isn't offered. ## Actions | Dragging | Actions | | - | - | | **Images** | **Compress** · Remove location · Remove background · Copy the text · Markup · **Redact** | | **Video** | **Compress** · Remove audio · Remove metadata · **Trim** · **Split** · **Speed** · **Crop** · **Snapshots** · **Redact** | | **Audio** | Smaller · Normalize · Make mono · **Trim** | | **PDFs** | Smaller · Combine into one · Split into pages · Remove metadata · Copy the text · Markup | | **Anything** | Zip · AirDrop · Mail · Messages | The ones in bold open a window (below); the rest are done straight away. Windows take one file at a time, except Compress, which takes several. * **Remove location** takes the GPS position out of a photo's details. Where the format allows, the picture isn't re-encoded, so it looks exactly the same. * **Remove background** lifts the subject (a person, a pet, an object) off its background into a transparent PNG. * **Copy the text** reads the text in images and scanned PDFs and puts it on the clipboard. A PDF that already has text gives you that text. * **Markup** opens a copy in Preview, with its Markup tools: draw, shapes, text, signatures, crop and rotate. * **Smaller** (PDFs) saves a PDF's images as JPEG at screen resolution. A PDF that's mostly text is often as small as it gets; then nothing is saved and the note says so. * **Zip** makes one archive of a file or folder, as the Finder's Compress does, or of several. * **AirDrop, Mail and Messages** open macOS's own windows with the files in them. ## The windows * **Compress** (images and video): choose a **Preset** (High, Medium or Small), a **File size** ("about 25 MB", for an email limit) or a **Percentage**. It shows the original size and what it'll come to; Return compresses with the size it opened on. Images come out as JPEG or HEIC, video as MP4. A size asked for is met with the best quality that fits; simple footage often comes out smaller still. * **Trim**: QuickTime's trim bar: drag its ends and click Trim. * **Split**: play, or click the strip of frames, to a moment, then **Add Split Here**. Each mark has an × to take it off. Save makes a clip of each part, copied as they are. * **Speed**: 0.25× to 4×, playing as you choose; the sound keeps its pitch. * **Crop** (video): drag the box or its handles, choose a shape (1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3, 3:4) or type the size. * **Snapshots**: play or scrub to a moment, **Add Frame**, and save each as a full-size PNG. * **Redact** (images): **Draw** boxes over what should be hidden; **Select** to move, resize or delete them; **Find Faces** and **Find Text** box them for you. Solid, Blur or Pixelate, strong enough that nothing under them can be read. ⌘Z undoes. The copy has none of the original's details (where and when it was taken). * **Redact** (video): draw a box on the video; it's on from that moment to the end. Drag its range on the strip beneath, or use **Start Here** and **End Here**. Solid or Blur. While a window saves, its bar shows how far it's got, with **Cancel**. ## Where results go **In the Beckon folder** (Downloads → Beckon), unless you choose **Next to the original** in **Settings → Actions**. Either way the original is never changed or replaced: a result is named after it (`photo (compressed).jpg`, `clip (trimmed).mov`, `doc page 1.png`), and numbered rather than replacing a file that's already there. Files dragged from Photos, Mail and other apps that hand over a copy as you drop always go in the Beckon folder, since they have no folder of their own. ### The Beckon folder on the ring Once it has something in it, the Beckon folder sits on the ring with your other folders. Point at it and your newest results fan out: drag one straight into Mail, Slack or a Finder window, or open it. Don't want it there? Turn off **Show the Beckon folder on the ring** in Settings → Actions. ## Choose which actions show **Settings → Actions** lists every action by what it works on. Switch off the ones you don't use and they won't fan out; drag to put the ones you use most first. **Show All in Order** puts them back. See [Settings](https://withbeckon.app/docs/guides/settings.md#actions). ## While it works * A long job (a big video, a long PDF) shows its progress in the note. Point at the note and click its **×** to cancel; what it was making is removed. * **Formats macOS can't write** (WebP, AVIF, MP3, OGG, Opus, WMA, WebM, MKV, AVI, WMV) need a converter, which Beckon downloads from withbeckon.app the first time you choose one (about 7 MB) and keeps. It sends nothing about your files. * **Pages, Keynote and Numbers** do the office conversions; macOS asks once whether Beckon may control each of them. They need to be installed (they're free in the App Store). * Everything happens on your Mac, in a separate, short-lived copy of Beckon, so a big job never adds to Beckon's memory. ## Free and Pro **Free:** Zip, AirDrop, and converting images to another format. Everything else is in [Beckon Pro](https://withbeckon.app/docs/guides/pro.md). Without Pro the other actions still fan out, so you can see what's there; pointing at one says it's in Pro. This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.