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Table Of Contents
- Compressor User Manual
- Contents
- An Introduction to Compressor
- Getting Started Quickly
- The Basic Transcoding Workflow
- The Compressor Interface
- Importing Source Media Files
- Creating, Previewing, and Modifying Settings
- Creating Jobs and Submitting Batches
- Assigning Settings to Source Media Files
- Assigning Destinations to Source Media Files
- Submitting a Batch
- About the History Drawer
- Resubmitting a Batch
- Saving and Opening a Batch File
- Submitting a Final Cut Pro Project for Transcoding
- Resubmitting a Final Cut Pro Project
- Transcoding Different Clips From One Source Media File
- Creating Dolby Digital Professional Output Files
- Creating H.264 DVD Output Files
- Creating MPEG-1 Output Files
- Creating MPEG-2 Output Files
- Creating MPEG-4 Output Files
- Creating QuickTime Movie Output Files
- Creating QuickTime Export Component, AIFF, and TIFF Files
- Adding Filters to a Setting
- Adding Frame Controls, Geometry, and Actions to a Setting
- Using the Preview Window
- Creating and Changing Destinations
- Using Droplets
- Customer Support
- Command-Line Usage
- Index
Chapter 14 Adding Filters to a Setting 187
Because interlacing creates two fields for each frame, areas with fast movement within
the field become separated into alternating jagged lines. You can view your source
media one frame at a time and check for horizontal stripes along the leading and
trailing edges of moving objects. If you find these, you need to deinterlace your source
media to convert it to a frame-based format.
Note: For deinterlacing, the Frame Controls feature is recommended over the
Deinterlacing filter (a legacy filter) as it will always provide much higher quality. See
“Working With Frame Controls” on page 195 for more information.
Removing Video Noise
You can improve image quality and spatially compress your material more efficiently
by reducing its fine detail. Video noise is any sort of excessive detail which can make
compression more difficult. The noise reduction filter allows you to blur areas of low
contrast while leaving high-contrast edges sharp. This is known as adaptive noise
reduction. The results are imperceptible to the human eye, but improve the final
compression of the source media. It is especially important to use this filter with
live video.
Color Spaces
Compressor supports the following color spaces—YUV (R408), 2VUY, RGBA, ARGB, and
YUV (v210). Some filters require a color space conversion and some filters can handle
various color spaces. For each media file, Compressor chooses the most suitable color
space to provide the best output and performance results based on the color space of
three attributes: the source media format, the output file format, and chosen filters.
Interlacing creates
a “comb” effect that
should be removed.