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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
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Contents
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Adding Source Media Files to a Batch
Chapter 5 61 Creating, Previewing, and Modifying Settings
62
About the Settings Tab
65
About the Inspector
67
Choosing a Pre-Existing Setting
68
Creating a Setting
70
Modifying a Setting
72
Previewing a Setting
74
Duplicating and Deleting Settings
75
Creating Groups of Settings
75
Distributing and Sharing Settings
Chapter 6 77 Creating Jobs and Submitting Batches
78
Assigning Settings to Source Media Files
81
Assigning Destinations to Source Media Files
83
Submitting a Batch
84
About the History Drawer
85
Resubmitting a Batch
86
Saving and Opening a Batch File
87
Submitting a Final Cut Pro Project for Transcoding
89
Resubmitting a Final Cut Pro Project
90
Transcoding Different Clips From One Source Media File
Chapter 7 93 Creating Dolby Digital Professional
Output Files
94
About the Dolby Digital Professional Encoder Pane
100
Converting Audio Files to Dolby Digital Professional Format
101
Creating Surround Files
106
Options for Spatial Mixing
Chapter 8 109 Creating H.264 DVD Output Files
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About the H.264 Encoder Pane
11 2
Job Segmenting and Multi-pass
11 3
H.264 Workflows for DVD
Chapter 9 115 Creating MPEG-1 Output Files
11 5
Common Uses for MPEG-1
11 6
MPEG-1 Specifications
11 7
About the MPEG-1 Encoder Pane
12 0
About System and Elementary Streams
121
MPEG-1 Transcoding Workflow
12 2
Configuring the MPEG-1 File Format for Web Use
12 3
Configuring the MPEG-1 File Format for DVD Use