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
177Compressor User Guide
Use the command line to submit Compressor jobs
Intro to shell commands in Compressor
If you’re accustomed to doing your work from Terminal shells, you can run the Compressor
application from the command line using the Compressor command. There are a number
of command-line options for submitting jobs.
In the command-line descriptions in this section, angle brackets < > indicate a mandatory
argument in a command, and brackets [ ] indicate an optional argument.
Job command syntax in Compressor
Below is a synopsis of the Compressor command for submitting a job to a cluster. The
Compressor command is located in <PATH>/Compressor.app/Contents/MacOS.
Important: The command below must be executed on one line.
Compressor [-computergroup <name>] [-batchname <name>]
[-priority <value>] -jobpath <file>[?frameRate=<frame rate>
|?audio=<file>|?frameRate=<frame rate>\&audio=<file>]
-settingpath <setting> -locationpath <file>
[-info <xml>] [-scc <file>] [-startoffset <hh:mm:ss:ff>]
[-in <hh:mm:ss:ff> [-out <hh:mm:ss:ff> [-annotations <file>]
[-chapters <file>]
Compressor -checkstream <file>
Compressor -findletterbox <file>
Compressor -help
Compressor [-resetBackgroundProcessing [cancelJobs]]
[-sharing <on|off>] [[-requiresPassword <password>]
| [-noPassword]] [-instances <value>]
[-networkInterface <bsd name>] [-portRange <starting port>
<count>]
These three arguments are the minimum required to submit a batch:
Compressor -jobpath <path> -settingpath <path> -locationpath <path>
Common command options used with Compressor
This table shows the most used command options for submitting jobs in Compressor:
Submission command option Description
-computergroup <name> Specifies the name of the group of shared computers.
-batchname <name> Specifies the name of the batch.
-priority <value> Specifies the priority level for a job.
-jobpath <url> Specifies the location of the source file.