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
8Compressor User Guide
High-dynamic-range video
• Deliver high-dynamic-range (HDR) video in HDR10 and hybrid log-gamma (HLG)
formats. See Intro to wide color gamut and HDR in Compressor.
• Create HDR packages for submission to the iTunes Store in Dolby Vision and HDR10
formats. See Submit HDR content to the iTunes Store in Compressor.
HEVC encoding
Encode with the new HEVC format (High-Efficiency Video Coding, also known as H.265) for
high-quality video with smaller file sizes. Several built-in settings in Compressor allow you
to encode video files in the HEVC format, including Apple Devices settings in Compressor,
MPEG-4 settings in Compressor, and QuickTime Movie settings in Compressor.
Enhanced MXF export
Create MXF (Material eXchange Format) files using a variety of compression types,
including AVC-Intra, D-10/IMX, Apple ProRes, and XDCAM HD. See MXF settings in
Compressor.