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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
169Compressor User Guide
However, transcoding a wide-gamut video to a standard-gamut color space may result in
a more faded-looking, drab image (because the wide-gamut colors will be discarded). And
transcoding a 10-bit video to 8-bit color will result in reduced resolution and potential
banding in areas of the image with color gradients.
Change video color space in Compressor
When you add a source video to Compressor, the app identifies the file’s native color space
and displays a badge (either SDR or HDR) in the Job inspector’s summary area.
Some transcode settings let you change that color space in the output video. Settings with
10-bit color allow you to choose a wide-gamut HDR color space for the output file.
Note: Although Compressor doesn’t display HDR or wide-gamut color in the preview area,
files are encoded correctly upon export.
Review or override the native color space assigned by Compressor
1. After you add a source file to a batch in Compressor, open the Job inspector and review
the option shown in the “Color space” pop-up menu.
If the source file has metadata identifying its native color space, Compressor adds
an asterisk next to the color space shown in the pop-up menu. If the source file is
untagged or tagged with an unrecognized color space, Compressor assigns a color
space based on its assessment of the media and then adds a dagger (†) next to the
item the pop-up menu.
2. If you think Compressor inaccurately interpreted the color data in the source file,
change the assigned color space by choosing a different option from the pop-up menu.
Note: Changing this property to another option doesn’t convert the exported file to a
different color space. To transcode to a different color space, see "Transcode a video
file to a different color space,” next.
Transcode a video file to a different color space
Some transcode settings let you change the color space in the output video.
Note: If you transcode a standard-gamut source file to a wide-gamut color space, you
won’t improve the video’s appearance. Similarly, if you transcode an 8-bit, standard-
dynamic-range file using a 10-bit HDR option, you won’t change the video’s appearance
(because Compressor can’t create additional resolution that wasn’t there to begin with).