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
59Compressor User Guide
Captions
This area contains a single property, the “Embed closed captions” checkbox. Select the
checkbox if you’ve added CEA-608 closed captions to a job and you want Compressor
to insert the captions into the output video file. See Intro to supporting captions
in Compressor.
Metadata
Specifies how metadata is embedded in the transcode. See Work with metadata
annotations in Compressor.
• Use Job Annotations: Includes the metadata from the Job Annotations listed in the Job
Inspector. This is the default setting.
• Pass through source file metadata: Passes the existing metadata from the source file to
the transcode. Ignores Job Annotations listed in the Job Inspector.
• Remove all metadata and annotations: Passes no metadata to the source file.
• Include metadata from the source file that cannot be displayed as a job annotation:
Available when Use Job Annotations is selected. Includes the metadata from the Job
Annotations listed in the Job Inspector and passes the existing metadata from the
source file to the transcode.
Video properties
Some video properties are enabled only for codecs that support them. If a video property
is disabled in Compressor, it’s not supported by the selected codec.
• Frame size: Use this pop-up menu to set the frame size (resolution) for the output file.
There are four categories to choose from:
• Automatic: Adjusts the output based on the size of the input, and can be constrained
“up to” a maximum resolution.
• Percentage: Adjusts the output based on a percentage of the input’s size.
• Manual: Forces the output to a specific resolution.
• Constrained: Constrains the output to a specific aspect ratio.
• Pixel aspect ratio: Use this pop-up menu to set the pixel aspect ratio (the ratio between
the encoded width and the display width).
• Frame rate: Use this pop-up menu to set the playback rate (the number of images
displayed per second) for the output file. See Retiming options in Compressor.
• Field order: Use the pop-up menu to set the output scanning method (either the field
dominance or a conversion to progressive scanning). There are four options:
• Automatic: Selects the most appropriate field order, based on the field order of the
source and the capabilities of the selected codec.
• Progressive: The video is displayed in complete frames with all lines sampled at the
same instant in time.