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Table of Contents

  • Welcome
  • What’s New
    • What is Compressor?
    • Compressor workflow
    • Compressor interface
    • Intro to simple transcoding
    • Transcode files
    • Preview jobs
    • Built-in destinations
    • Built-in presets
    • Built-in locations
    • Work with watch folders
    • Add a watch folder
    • Activate a watch folder
    • Access watch folder settings and properties
    • Add and remove transcode presets from watch folders
    • Intro to advanced adjustments
      • Modify a preset’s properties
      • Create custom presets
      • Formats and presets
        • Apple Devices
        • Common Audio Formats
        • Dolby Digital
        • H.264 for Blu-ray/AVCHD
        • Image Sequence
        • MP3
        • MPEG-2
        • MPEG-4
        • MXF
        • QuickTime Movie
      • View destination properties
      • Create a custom destination
    • Work with locations
      • Intro to jobs
      • Modify job properties
        • Standard media
        • Image sequence
        • Surround sound
        • Add and modify job actions
        • Job action properties
    • Work with batches
    • Import an image sequence
      • Create a surround sound job
      • Audio channel layouts
    • Encode spatial video for Apple Vision Pro
      • Intro to 360-degree video
      • View 360-degree video metadata
      • Intro to captions
      • Import and preview captions
      • Edit caption properties
      • Adjust caption timing
      • Export captions
      • Intro to iTunes Store packages
      • iTunes store package fields
      • Build iTunes Store packages
      • Work with burned-in text
      • Submit HDR content
      • Submitting to the iTunes Store
      • Intro to IMF packages
      • IMF package fields
      • Build IMF packages
      • Prepare an HDR package
      • Intro to modifying frame size
      • Modify a video frame
      • Conform to a video frame
      • Retiming options
      • Retime video and audio
      • Modify timing and frame rate
      • Use deinterlacing
      • Use reverse telecine
    • Modify audio tracks
      • Add and remove effects
      • Video effects
      • Audio effects
    • Work with metadata
    • Add descriptive audio
    • Set a poster frame
    • Add markers
    • Transcode time ranges
    • Modify starting timecode
      • Import third-party formats with media extensions
      • Import Canon Cinema RAW Light video
      • Intro to Compressor settings
      • General settings
      • My Computer settings
      • Shared Computers settings
      • Advanced settings
      • Built-in keyboard shortcuts
        • View keyboard shortcuts
        • Modify keyboard shortcuts
        • Export and import command sets
      • Touch Bar shortcuts
      • Intro to wide color gamut and HDR
      • Change video color space
    • Create and use droplets
    • Create Compressor instances
    • Transcode Final Cut Pro and Motion projects
      • Intro to shell commands
      • Syntax
      • Common command options
      • Code examples
      • Transcode with multiple computers
      • Configure file sharing
  • Glossary
  • Copyright

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