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
180Compressor User Guide
• Uses the “Apple Devices HD (Custom)” setting at ~/Library/Application\ Support/
Compressor/Settings (The “\” character is used in this case to retain the space in
“Application Support.”)
• Writes the output file, named “MyOutput.m4v,” to the ~/Movies folder
Configure a shared computer
The following command configures a computer to allow other computers to process
Compressor batches on it.
Important: The command below must be executed on one line.
/Applications/Compressor.app/Contents/MacOS/Compressor
-sharing on -instances 1 -networkInterface en0
-portRange 30000 1000
What this command does:
• Identifies where Compressor is located
• Turns on sharing
• Enables one extra Compressor instance
• Sets processing to occur on a specific network interface
• Sets network communication to a predefined port range