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A job consists of a source media file with at least one target, composed of a setting and
a destination, assigned to it. You created the jobs by importing the source media files.
Adding targets makes them ready to be submitted for transcoding.
For a job to be complete, and thus ready to be submitted for transcoding, you need to
add one or more targets to it. Each target contains a setting, which defines everything
about what the file is to be transcoded into, and a destination, which defines where the
transcoded file is saved and how its name is generated. Each target also allows you to
manually enter the name for the output file.
Compressor gives you a number of different options for assigning settings and destinations
to your targets and submitting and resubmitting batches.
Note: See About the Settings Tab and About the Destinations Tab for more information
about creating presets in these windows.
This chapter covers the following:
• Assigning Settings (p. 109)
• Assigning Destinations (p. 114)
• General Job and Target Information (p. 116)
• General Batch Information (p. 119)
• Using Final Cut Pro with Compressor (p. 126)
• Using Distributed Processing with Compressor (p. 131)
Assigning Settings
This section describes how you can assign settings to source media files and replace or
modify assigned settings.
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Finalizing Jobs and Submitting
Batches
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