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Note: You can also create hierarchies of groups (groups within groups). Just drag a group
folder into another group folder.
This custom group
contains three other
custom groups, each
with its own settings.
The Description field displays the number of settings your group contains. Once you have
at least one setting inside the group folder, you can click the disclosure triangle next to
the group folder to show or hide the setting group details. You can also see full details
of the settings in any group by selecting the group and then looking at the Summary
pane in the Inspector window.
Note: You can also drag settings from one group to another group.
To add the same setting to more than one group
1 Select the setting.
2 Click the Duplicate button to create a copy.
3 Drag the duplicated setting to another group folder.
You can choose to rename the setting, for example, removing the word “copy” from it.
Distributing and Sharing Settings
Newly created settings are stored in the home folder at
/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Compressor/Settings as XML files, with the
file extension .setting. You can distribute and share any of your custom settings by placing
them into the same location within the home folder of whatever computer you distributed
the settings to. You can also transfer these files the same way that you would distribute
any other file, by emailing them as an attachment or placing them on a server.
Note: Settings created using Compressor 4 or later are not compatible with earlier versions
of Compressor.
107Chapter 7 Creating, Previewing, and Modifying Settings