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157Compressor User Guide
Note: If your system doesn’t have enough memory or processor cores, this option is
dimmed and not available.
• Use GPU to process Final Cut Pro content sent to Compressor: This checkbox
instructs Compressor to use the computer’s graphics processing engine to
display or transcode a Final Cut Pro project sent to Compressor for processing.
If you’re running both Compressor and Final Cut Pro at the same time,
enabling this setting may degrade Final Cut Pro performance. See Transcode
Final Cut Pro and Motion projects in Compressor.
• Use network interfaces: When you’ve allowed others to share your computer, you can
restrict distributed processing activity to the network interface that you specify in the
pop-up menu.
• Enable Port Range: When you’ve allowed others to share your computer, you can select
this checkbox to set the ports on which distributed processing is run. After selecting
the checkbox, enter the number at which you want to start the port range and the
number of ports you want the range to contain.
• Reset Queue: Click to reset the queue of Compressor jobs. After you click this button,
you can choose to reset the queue and cancel all pending jobs, or reset the queue and
then restart any pending jobs.
• Update Droplets: Click to update all droplets on the local computer to be compatible
with the current version of Compressor. Outdated droplets that are not updated may not
function properly. After droplets are updated, they’ll no longer work on computers using
older versions of Compressor. See Create and use droplets in Compressor.
Keyboard shortcuts
Built-in keyboard shortcuts in Compressor
You can use keyboard shortcuts to quickly accomplish many tasks in Compressor. To use a
keyboard shortcut, press all the keys in the shortcut at the same time.
Keyboard shortcuts for common commands are listed in the table below.
Compressor general keyboard shortcuts
Action Shortcut
Add a file Command-I
Add a set of image sequence files Option-Command-I
Add a set of surround sound files Control-Command-I
Navigate up the list of jobs (in the batch area) Up Arrow
Navigate down the list of jobs (in the batch area) Down Arrow
Play/Pause the video Space Bar
Play the video in reverse J
Stop playback K