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
155Compressor User Guide
• After starting a new batch: This section of the General pane has two controls:
• Clear batch in the Current tab: Select this checkbox to automatically remove batch
information from the Current view after a batch is transcoded.
• Switch to the Active tab: Select this checkbox to have Compressor switch to Active
view when a batch is transcoding.
• Reset all dialog warnings: Some warnings contain a checkbox for suppressing future
instances of the same error. Click this button to reset any suppressed warnings so they
will appear (when triggered by applicable conditions).
My Computer preferences in Compressor
Use the controls in the My Computer pane in Compressor to allow other computers to use
your computer to process batches:
• Allow other computers to process batches on my computer: Click the switch to On to
make your computer available to other computers for distributed processing. Switching
this on automatically enables the “When sharing my computer” controls in the
Advanced pane. See Advanced preferences in Compressor.
• Require Password: Select this checkbox and then type a password in the text field to
make other people enter a password before using your computer for encoding.










