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job.
In the Settings pane, select a custom setting from the
Custom group. (If the Settings pane is hidden, press Shift-
Command-1.) With this method, the modifications you
make will be saved to the custom setting for future use.
2. In the inspector pane, click Video to open the Video inspector.
If the inspector pane is not visible, click the Inspector button
in the upper-right corner of the Compressor window.
3. In the Cropping & Padding section of the Video inspector, do
one of the following:
In the Cropping property, manually type a number in the
Top, Bottom, Left, and Right fields to crop the source
image by that many pixels.
Choose a preset aspect ratio from the Cropping pop-up
menu.
Note: If the you choose does not match the
aspect ratio selected in the “Frame size” pop-up menu (in
the Video Properties section), you may see black bars
around the edges of your picture after the file is
transcoded.
Choose Letterbox Area of Source from the Cropping pop-
up menu. This instructs Compressor to detect the black
edges around the image in your source file and
automatically enter crop values to match them. This option
is useful if you want to remove the letterbox area (the black
bars above and below a widescreen image) of a source
media file.
In the , click the Comparison button and
aspect ratio
preview area