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Table Of Contents
- Final Cut Studio Workflows
- Contents
- Introduction
- Developing a Post-Production Strategy
- Ingesting and Organizing Your Media
- Integration During Editorial Development
- Client Review
- Finishing
- What Is Finishing?
- Finishing Using Compressed Versus Uncompressed Media
- Format Conversion When Finishing Mixed-Format Sequences
- Reconforming Media to Online Quality
- Creating Final Broadcast Design Elements and Effects
- Color Correction
- Final Sound Editing, Design, and Mixing
- Mastering
- Output and Delivery
Compressor can work with an Apple Qmaster cluster to use multiple processing cores on
a single computer and multiple computers on a network to process a single batch of
media files. This can speed up your compression workflow substantially. For more
information about setting up a cluster for distributed processing, see the
Distributed Processing Setup Guide, available in Compressor Help or Apple Qmaster Help.
You can send an edited program or QuickTime movie to Compressor in one of two ways:
• Using the Share command in Final Cut Pro or Motion
• Exporting a QuickTime movie (either self-contained or reference) from any application
and adding it to Compressor manually
When one or more media files are queued up, Compressor takes the following steps to
prepare your program for the web:
• Changing the frame rate, removing 3:2 pull-down, and deinterlacing programs for
optimal onscreen web playback
• Applying video filters for color adjustments, noise removal and sharpening, and
watermarking
• Resizing and cropping the frame dimensions as appropriate for your presentation and
bandwidth requirements
There are a variety of presets available in the Settings window that are appropriate for
creating web media. You can use these settings as they are or customize them for your
own particular needs.
To make web sharing even easier, Compressor also has built-in templates (similar to the
Sharing options found in other Final Cut Studio applications) for publishing compressed
H.264 media files to MobileMe and YouTube for automated video hosting. The Publish
to MobileMe and Publish to YouTube templates have post-transcoding actions that
facilitate automatic uploading, as long as you already have accounts set up.
A third template, called Create Web Reference Movie, automatically creates three
compressed versions of your program for the web (small, medium, and large), along with
an accompanying reference movie that’s linked to each version. Whenever a viewer goes
to a webpage that contains the embedded reference movie, the appropriately sized
movie for a given device and connection speed is displayed automatically.
For more information about creating movies for the web, see the Compressor
documentation.
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