Compressor 4 - Technical Specifications

Minimum System Requirements
  • Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor or better
  • 2GB of RAM (4GB of RAM recommended)
  • OpenCL-capable graphics card or Intel HD Graphics 3000 or later
  • 256MB of VRAM
  • Display with 1280-by-768 resolution or higher
  • Mac OS X v10.6.7 or later
  • 685MB of disk space

High- Performance Encoding
  • H.264 multipass encoding for Blu-ray discs and files
  • Support for red laser burning of AVCHD discs for playback in compatible Blu‑ray players
  • H.264 encoding for Apple devices, web, and mobile devices
  • Support for image sequence sources: TIFF, Targa, DPX, JPEG, and OpenEXR
  • Support for encoding HTTP live streaming
  • Support for encoding to TIFF, Targa, DPX, JPEG, and OpenEXR image sequences
  • Full QuickTime support
  • MPEG-2 encoding
  • MPEG-1 encoding
  • MPEG-4 encoding
  • Two-pass VBR encoding for MPEG-2
  • Dolby-certified encoding to Dolby Digital Professional AC-3 format
  • Accepts QuickTime (single-channel or multichannel), AIFF, Sound Designer, and WAV files
  • Advanced chaptering for Apple TV and podcasting
  • Closed-caption support for Apple devices, QuickTime, and MPEG-2
  • Automatic setting creation via drag and drop of a QuickTime file
  • Scaling and down-converting
  • Standards conversions
  • Retiming
  • Preview with split-screen comparison
  • High-quality image processing
  • Batch templates with job actions for automating workflows from encoding to delivery, including:
    • Add to iTunes Library
    • Create DVD
    • Create Blu-ray Disc*
    • Create Web Reference Movie
    • Open with Application
    • Prepare for HTTP Live Streaming
    • Run Automator Workflow
    • Publish to YouTube
    • Publish to Facebook
    • Publish to Vimeo
    • Publish to CNN iReport
    • Send Email
    • Podcast Producer Workflow
  • More than 100 presets included
  • Automated encoding with droplets
  • Automatic and custom cropping
  • Automatic and custom padding
  • Automatic copying of source media for reference media to encoding nodes
  • Automatic FTP
  • Reverse telecine
  • Deinterlacing
  • Enhanced droplets for easy desktop encoding

Built-in Distributed Encoding
  • Built-in setup for distributed encoding, including This Computer sharing options as well as the ability to create rendering jobs and administer clusters
  • Create Rendering Jobs option to run third-party process on available clusters
  • Full cluster administration tools including maximum number of jobs to be run, email notifications, and security permissions

Dolby Digital Professional Encoding
  • Dolby-certified encoding to Dolby Digital Professional AC-3 format
  • Accepts QuickTime (single-channel or multichannel), AIFF, Sound Designer, and WAV format sound files for encoding
  • Support for all channel formats from mono to 5.1 surround
  • Automatically creates 2.0 or 5.1 based on the number of channels in the source media file
  • Confidence decoding for preview of AC‑3 files

Video Filters
  • BlackWhite Restore
  • Brightness and Contrast
  • Color Correct Highlights
  • Color Correct Midtones
  • Color Correct Shadows
  • Deinterlacing
  • Fade In/Out
  • Gamma Correction
  • Letterbox
  • Noise Removal
  • Sharpen Edge
  • Text Overlay
  • Timecode Generator
  • Watermark (Image, animated with QuickTime or Motion files)

Audio Filters
  • Dynamic Range
  • Peak Limiter
  • Apple: AUGraphicEQ
  • Fade In/Out

 

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