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
88Compressor User Guide
Surround sound properties
Displays the names of the files assigned to surround sound channels.
You can modify these file assignments using the following controls in the Surround Sound
Properties area:
• Remove button: Click a Remove button to remove a file assigned to a channel.
• Channel icon: Click the channel icon (a speaker icon or subwoofer icon) to assign a
different file to a channel.
• Add Video: Click the Add Video button to assign a video file to the surround sound
source audio file. (If a video file has already been assigned, its filename replaces the
Add Video button, as shown in the image above.)
• Clear All: Click the Clear All button to clear all the audio files assigned to the audio
channels and to remove the video file assigned to the surround sound source file.
Job annotation
The Job Annotation area of the Job inspector in Compressor contains the Field pop-up
menu, which lets you include annotation metadata in your output file. See Work with
metadata annotations in Compressor.
Action
The following properties are available in the Action area of the Job inspector in
Compressor:
• When done: Use this pop-up menu to assign an automated job action to be performed
after transcoding. See Job action properties in Compressor.
• Save captions to disk: Available for transcode settings that support captions. Select this
checkbox to save a separate captions text file to your computer when you transcode a
job that has captions. See Export captions in Compressor.










