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11Compressor User Guide
Compressor also provides a number of preconfigured destinations, which combine settings
and a post-transcoding action, such as burning a Blu-ray disc.
Choose an output location
Designate a location on your computer or on a connected storage device where you want
to save the transcoded media file. You can choose any of several preconfigured locations,
including your computer desktop, your Movies folder, or the source folder of the original
media. You can also choose a custom location.
Submit your media for transcoding
After you assign settings or a destination and specify an output location in Compressor,
click the Start Batch button to begin the transcoding process. You can monitor the
progress of the transcoding in Active view. After transcoding is complete, you can see
information about the settings or destinations you used in Completed view.
See Transcode files in Compressor to view a list of detailed instructions.
Compressor interface
The Compressor window has three views: Current, Active, and Completed. You can switch
between these views by clicking a view button at the top of the window.
Current view
Current view is the default view in Compressor, where you prepare transcoding jobs
and then submit your batch. When you open Compressor for the first time, Current view
displays two basic areas, one for previewing your media files and the other for displaying
the transcoding batches to be processed in a given session.