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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
42 Chapter 3 The Compressor Interface
Inspector Window
The Inspector window has easy access to common transcoding controls (for creating
and modifying settings and destinations) and a full summary table containing all the
details of each setting.
Summary Pane
The Summary pane contains the Summary table, which describes all the settings (video
and audio settings, geometry, and filter settings) associated with the setting selected in
the Settings tab of the Presets window. Information in the Summary table is updated
automatically whenever any setting is modified.
The Summary table includes the following details:
 Name: The name of the setting selected in the Settings tab.
 Description: A description of the setting selected in the Settings tab.
 File Extension: The extension assigned to the transcoded media file. This identifies
which format your source media file is being converted to.
 Audio Encoder: Details of the audio output file format and other transcoding settings,
such as sample rate, channels, bits per sample, and codec type.
 Video Encoder: Details of the video output file format and other transcoding settings
such as frame width and height, crop amount (in pixels), frame rate, aspect ratio,
codec type, pixel depth, spatial quality, minimum spatial quality, keyframe interval,
temporal quality, minimum temporal quality, and data rate (in bits per second).
 Filter: Details of all, some, or none (depending on how many filters you selected in
the Filters pane) of the available Compressor filters.