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
31Compressor User Guide
Platform or use Use video settings based on these
formats
Use audio settings based on these
formats
Apple TV, i Pad, i Phone, i Pod touch,
the Apple Music app, and the Apple
TV app
Apple Devices settings in
Compressor
• AAC (see MPEG-4 settings in
Compressor)
• WAVE (see Common Audio
Formats settings in Compressor)
Web delivery, including Facebook,
You Tube, and Vimeo
Quick Time Movie settings in
Compressor
Quick Time Movie settings in
Compressor
Blu-ray discs H.264 for Blu-ray setting in
Compressor
AC-3 (see Dolby Digital settings in
Compressor)
High-definition (HD) DVD MPEG-2 setting in Compressor AC-3 (see Dolby Digital settings in
Compressor)
Standard-definition (SD) DVD MPEG-2 setting in Compressor AC-3 (see Dolby Digital settings in
Compressor)
Audio CDs
• AIFF (see Common Audio Formats
settings in Compressor)
• FLAC (see Common Audio
Formats settings in Compressor)
• MP3 settings in Compressor
• WAVE (see Common Audio
Formats settings in Compressor)
HTTP Live Streaming MPEG-4 settings in Compressor
Motion graphics applications
• Quick Time Movie settings in
Compressor
• Image Sequence settings in
Compressor
Properties of settings
Apple Devices settings in Compressor
The built-in settings in Compressor based on the Apple Devices format offer a choice of
two codecs: H.264 and HEVC (High-Efficiency Video Coding, also known as H.265). Two of
the Apple Devices settings—Apple Devices 4K (HEVC 8-bit) and Apple Devices 4K (HEVC
10-bit)—automatically apply the HEVC codec to your output file.
The other Apple Devices settings use H.264 as the default codec, but you can change the
codec to HEVC in the Video inspector if your computer is running macOS 10.13 or later.
HEVC is a recently established compression standard that supports larger frame sizes
(including 8K), HDR10, and Dolby Vision 8.4 metadata for high-dynamic-range video. Dolby
Vision 8.4 is a format designed to optimize HDR content for Apple devices. HEVC playback
requires a recent-generation Apple device running macOS 10.13 or later, iOS 11 or later,
iPadOS 13 or later, or tvOS 11 or later.
Note: You can also create custom settings in Compressor that use the Apple Devices
transcoding format. However, keep in mind that the built-in Apple Devices settings (in the
Settings pane) analyze your source media and assign optimal properties to ensure the best
possible transcoding results.