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174Compressor User Guide
1. Choose Compressor > Preferences (or press Command-Comma).
2. Select My Computer.
3. If necessary, turn on “Allow other computers to process batches on my computer.”
4. To control access to your computer, select the Require Password checkbox and enter a
password in the text field.
The password is required by other computers to use your computer for transcoding.
5. To add Compressor to your list of login items, do the following:
a. In the macOS Finder, choose Apple menu > System Preferences.
b. Click Users & Groups, then click Login Items.
c. At the bottom of the list of login items, click the Add button
,
navigate to
Compressor, then click Add.
Create a group of shared computers
You can create a group of shared computers to use to transcode your batches.
1. Choose Compressor > Preferences (or press Command-Comma).
2. Select Shared Computers.
3. At the bottom of the list of shared computers (on the left), click the Add button
.
A new “Untitled” group is added to the list.
4. Double-click the “Untitled” group to select it, type a new name for the group, then
press Return.
5. In the list of available computers (on the right), select the checkbox next to each
computer that you want to add to the set.
If a computer doesn’t appear in your list of computers, you can add it to the list using
the computer’s IP address (described in the next task).
If you’re using an Xsan storage area network, be sure to turn automatic file sharing off. See
Manually configure file sharing using Compressor.
If you need to remove a group of shared computers, select the group and click the
Remove button
.
Manually add a computer to a group of shared computers
If a computer doesn’t appear in your list of available computers, you can add it manually.
1. In the Shared Computers pane of Compressor Preferences, select the shared computer
group (in the list on the left) to which you want to add a computer.
2. Click the Add button at the bottom of the list of networked computers (on the right).
3. In the window that appears, enter the computer’s host name or IP address, and
click Add.
The new computer appears in the selected shared computer group.
To temporarily disable the computer that you manually added to the group, deselect the
computer’s checkbox.
To remove the computer that you manually added to the group, select the computer (in the
list on the right) and then click the Remove button
.