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2 Control-click one of the selected jobs and choose New Target With Setting from the
shortcut menu.
The shortcut menu lists the settings based on their groups. You cannot directly choose
a group to be assigned, but each group contains an “All” item that selects all the group’s
settings.
Note: You cannot select multiple individual settings with this method.
3 Choose a setting or All to choose all settings in a group.
The settings are applied to all selected jobs.
To assign a setting from the Finder
Do one of the following:
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Drag one or more settings from the Finder to an empty space in the Batch window.
A new job appears with one or more target rows populated with the settings.
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Drag one or more settings from the Finder to an empty space on a job tile in the Batch
window.
One or more new target rows appear on the job, populated with the settings.
For more information, see Distributing and Sharing Settings
You can also add settings to Compressor using Droplets. For more information, see Using
Droplets to Create Jobs and Settings in Compressor.
Replacing an Assigned Setting with a Different Setting
After you have assigned a setting to a job, you might find a more suitable setting and
decide to change the target’s setting to the new one. You can use several methods to
change a target’s setting. All of these methods leave the destination and output filename
settings as they are.
112 Chapter 8 Finalizing Jobs and Submitting Batches