4.5
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
134Compressor User Guide
Conform video to a frame size
When you set a frame size in the Video inspector, the frame fills until it reaches the lowest
bound of the frame size you specified. For example, if you set a source video that's a
720 x 1280 vertical frame to transcode to a horizontal frame that’s 1280 x 720 (with no
additional cropping or padding), the result is a video that’s 480 x 720. To create a video
with an exact frame size, constrain the frame size and crop or pad the video.
1. In Compressor, do one of the following:
• In the batch area, click an output row to select a setting that’s been applied to a
job. With this method, the modifications you make will be used for outputting only
that 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 are 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 Video Properties section of the Video inspector, choose an aspect ration from the
Constrained section of the Frame size pop-up menu.
4. Type the dimensions of the conforming video frame.
5. In the Cropping & Padding section of the Video inspector do one of the following:
• Fill the frame: Choose Custom from the Cropping and Padding pop-up menus, then
type “0” in all the fields. Compressor will stretch your source video to fill the frame.
• Crop the frame: Choose a preset that matches your frame size from the Cropping
pop-up menu. Compressor will be crop to the center of your video to fill the frame.
To reposition the crop, choose Custom from the Cropping pop-up menu, then drag
the crop box in the Viewer.
• Pad the frame: Choose Preserve Source Aspect Ration from the Padding pop-up
menu. Compressor will pad your source video to fill the frame.
Tip: Set duration points to export a single frame until you find the settings for
your destination.