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
146Compressor User Guide
2. In the Job Annotations area of the Job inspector, click the Fields pop-up menu, choose
Import, select a QuickTime movie or XML property list file that contains annotations,
then click Open.
Metadata values in the QuickTime movie or XML file that correspond to the metadata
categories in Compressor are added to the fields below the pop-up menu, overwriting
any existing metadata values.
Compressor recognizes the following metadata categories in QuickTime movie files and
XML property list files:
com.apple.quicktime.album
com.apple.quicktime.artist
com.apple.quicktime.author
com.apple.quicktime.comment
com.apple.quicktime.copyright
com.apple.quicktime.creationdate
com.apple.quicktime.description
com.apple.quicktime.director
com.apple.quicktime.displayname
com.apple.quicktime.genre
com.apple.quicktime.information
com.apple.quicktime.keywords
com.apple.quicktime.location.ISO6709
com.apple.quicktime.producer
com.apple.quicktime.publisher
com.apple.proapps.reel
com.apple.quicktime.software
com.apple.quicktime.title
com.apple.quicktime.collection.user
com.apple.quicktime.rating.user
com.apple.quicktime.year
Note: If you see the message “Some source file annotations cannot be displayed,” your job
contains metadata—lyrics, for example—that Compressor cannot display. See Modify pass-
through metadata.
Modify pass-through metadata
You can choose how to handle metadata in your trancodes.
1. In the Compressor batch area, select an applied setting.
2. In the General inspector, choose an option:
• Use Job Annotations: Includes the metadata from the Job Annotations listed in the
Job Inspector. This is the default setting.
• Pass through source file metadata: Passes the existing metadata from the source file
to the transcode. Ignores Job Annotations listed in the Job Inspector.