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
22Compressor User Guide
• Click the Zoom pop-up menu (in the upper-right corner of the preview area), then
choose a zoom level.
• Press Shift-Z to resize the preview area to fit the current available window space.
Tip: To increase the available preview area space, resize the Compressor window, or
drag the divider bar between the preview area and the batch area down.
View different areas of a zoomed-in preview area
When the preview area is zoomed to a level greater than 100%, you can’t view the entire
image at once. However, you can scroll the preview area to see more of the image.
In Compressor, do one of the following:
• Swipe the trackpad using two fingers.
• Drag the inner box of the navigation control (in the upper-right corner of the zoomed-in
preview area).
View caption text in the preview area
If you’ve added captions to your job, you can view that text in the preview area.
1. In the Compressor batch area, select the output row for the job containing closed-
caption data.
2. In the preview area, click the Captions button
,
then choose On.
3. To stop displaying closed captions, click the Caption button again, then choose Off.
For iTunes Store packages, choose audio tracks, view closed-caption text, or view
subtitle text
iTunes Store packages are special types of batches that can include closed-caption data,
subtitles (in multiple languages), and alternative audio tracks. In the preview area, you can
view any of that text and choose which audio track to hear.
1. In the Compressor batch area, select the Feature video.
2. In the preview area, click the "Show closed captions, subtitles, and audio language”
button
,
then choose the audio track you want to hear and the subtitle text you want
to display.
See Intro to iTunes Store packages in Compressor.
Built-in destinations in Compressor
Built-in destinations, available in the Settings pane in Compressor, combine one or more
settings and a post-encode job action, which automates tasks such as emailing, copying,
and moving transcoded files.
Built-in destination Contains Use to
Add to TV Home Videos Settings: Apple Devices HD (Best
Quality)
Job action: Add to TV Home Videos
Create an Apple device–compatible
H.264 file, then automatically add
the file to your Home Videos library
on Apple TV.