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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- What’s new
- Compressor basics
- Simple transcoding
- Advanced adjustments
- Intro to advanced adjustments in Compressor
- Work with settings
- View and modify a setting’s properties in Compressor
- Create custom settings in Compressor
- Formats and settings in Compressor
- Properties of settings
- Apple Devices settings in Compressor
- Common Audio Formats settings in Compressor
- Dolby Digital settings in Compressor
- H.264 for Blu-ray setting in Compressor
- Image Sequence settings in Compressor
- MP3 settings in Compressor
- MPEG-2 setting in Compressor
- MPEG-4 settings in Compressor
- MXF settings in Compressor
- QuickTime Export Components setting in Compressor
- QuickTime Movie settings in Compressor
- Work with destinations
- Work with locations in Compressor
- Work with jobs
- Work with batches in Compressor
- Advanced tasks
- Import an image sequence in Compressor
- Work with surround sound files
- Work with 360-degree video
- Work with captions
- Create iTunes Store packages
- Create IMF packages
- Modify frame size
- Modify playback speed
- View and modify audio tracks in Compressor
- Add video and audio effects
- Work with metadata annotations in Compressor
- Add descriptive audio tracks in Compressor
- Set a poster frame in Compressor
- Add markers using Compressor
- Transcode time ranges in Compressor
- Modify starting timecode in Compressor
- Work smarter
- Compressor preferences
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Wide color gamut and HDR
- Create and use droplets in Compressor
- Create additional instances of Compressor
- Transcode Final Cut Pro and Motion projects in Compressor
- Use distributed processing
- Glossary
104Compressor User Guide
• Spherical Video V1: The 360° metadata format most commonly used by sharing sites,
including YouTube and Vimeo.
• Spherical Video V2: A less common but more up-to-date 360° metadata format used
by YouTube and Vimeo.
3. Click Start Batch to export your file and its 360° metadata.
If you applied a YouTube or Vimeo destination to the source file, the metadata will be
parsed by the sharing website so that your 360° video displays correctly.
360º image © 2015 Jaunt, Inc.
Work with captions
Intro to supporting captions in Compressor
Captions are lines of text superimposed over a video program and synchronized to the
program’s video and audio. Compressor lets you combine captions with video (and
optionally edit them) in either of two industry-standard caption formats:
• CEA-608 closed captions: Originally developed for people who are deaf or hard of
hearing, CEA-608 closed captions (also known as Line 21 text) are frequently used on
televisions in loud environments (such as bars and airports). CEA-608 closed captions,
which use the .scc filename extension, offer numerous formatting options. Viewers can
turn closed captions on or off while watching television shows, movies, web videos, and
other programs. In Compressor, CEA-608 captions are compatible with iTunes Store
packages and many transcode settings.
• iTT (iTunes Timed Text) subtitles: The caption format for subtitles in iTunes Store
content and in YouTube and Vimeo videos, iTT subtitles can be used to deliver foreign-
language translations or a transcript of dialog, narration, or audio descriptions to people
who are deaf or hard of hearing. iTT subtitles, which use the .itt filename extension,
offer more limited formatting options than CEA-608 captions. In Compressor, you can
specify whether to let viewers turn iTT subtitles on or off (for example, for full foreign-
language translations) or force subtitles to appear onscreen (for example, for specific
characters in a movie who speak a different language). In Compressor, iTT subtitles
are compatible with iTunes Store packages, but are of limited use in other transcode
settings because iTT subtitles can’t be directly embedded into a video file.