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Work with settings
View and modify a setting’s properties
When you select a built-in setting in the Settings pane, or an applied setting in the batch area, its
properties are shown in the inspector. General properties are displayed in the General inspector,
and video and audio properties are displayed in the Video inspector and the Audio inspector.
View a setting’s general, video, and audio properties
1 Select a setting by doing one of the following:
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For a setting that has not been applied, click a built-in setting in the Settings pane. (If the
Settings pane is hidden, click the Settings & Locations button at the top-left corner of the
Compressor window, and then click Settings at the top of the pane.)
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For a setting that has already been applied to a source le, select the output row of a job in
the batch area.
2 If necessary, click the Inspector button in the upper-right corner of the Compressor window
to reveal the inspector pane.
The inspector pane is divided into three subpanes: General, Video, and Audio. At the top of each
subpane is a summary of the transcoding instructions of the selected setting, including the
name of the setting, the transcoding format, and the estimated size of the output le.
Setting name
The setting is based
on this format.
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