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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
Index 263
settings 10, 155
two pass 135–138
VCDs
bit rates 119
MPEG-1 output and 115
video
compression. See transcoding
deinterlacing 186–187
enabling tracks 165
interlacing 128, 186–187
minutes of, on DVDs 134
noise 187
non-interlaced 115
progressive 115, 128, 138
streaming 128, 154
video CDs. See VCDs
video codecs
See also codecs, names of specific codecs
considerations 174
lossless 175
lossy 175
Video Encoder setting 42
Video Format pop-up menu 111, 130
Video Format tab 130–133, 145
Video pane 155, 158, 160
video settings
MPEG-2 files 130–133, 146–147
MPEG-4 files 155, 158, 160
QuickTime 166
Video tab 118
voice levels 176
voiceovers 101
volume, normalizing 97
W
WANs (wide area networks) 36
warnings, destination 230
watermark filter 192
WAVE format 102
web
frame rates and sizes 116
MPEG-1 output on 116, 121, 122–123
resolution for 118
streaming media files over 164
Web option 118
websites
Apple 14
AppleCare Support 243, 244
AppleScripts 244
Apple Service and Support 14
Apple Store 15
Apple websites 14–15
Compressor 14, 243
Dolby Laboratories 107
FireWire 14
QuickTime 14
white balance 189
wide area networks 36
workflows
3:2 pull-downs 133
basic transcoding 25–33
Compressor windows and workflow 38
H.264 output 113
MPEG-1 121
MPEG-2 145–151
MPEG-4 158–162
quick-and-easy 18–23
QuickTime 171–174
surround sound encoding 101–102
X
XML code 248