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Table of Contents

  • Welcome
  • What’s new
    • What is Compressor?
    • Compressor workflow
    • Compressor interface
    • Set up a simple transcoding job
    • Intro to importing media
    • Import video and audio
    • Import an image sequence
    • Import surround sound audio
      • Import third-party formats with media extensions
      • Import Canon Cinema RAW Light video
      • Import and adjust RAW video in Compressor
    • View and modify job properties
    • Job properties
    • Intro to applying transcoding instructions
      • Add and remove presets
      • View and modify a preset’s properties
      • Built-in presets
      • Create custom presets
      • Save and share custom presets
      • Preset formats
        • General properties
        • Video properties
        • Audio properties
      • Add and modify job actions
      • Job actions
      • Add a destination to a job
      • View destination properties
      • Built-in destinations
      • Create a custom destination
      • Change an output’s filename
      • Change an output’s save location
      • Built-in locations
      • Create custom locations and filename formats
      • Modify timing and timecode
      • Transcode a specific time range
      • Modify frame size
      • Modify frame rate and duration
      • Set retiming and resizing quality
      • Modify color space and HDR metadata
        • Add and remove effects
        • Video effects
        • Audio effects
    • Add markers
    • Marker types
    • Set a poster frame
    • Work with metadata
    • Intro to previewing and transcoding
    • Preview jobs
    • Review batch details
    • Review errors and warnings
    • Transcode a batch
    • Transcode Final Cut Pro and Motion projects
    • Create a preset group
    • Chain jobs in a batch
    • Create and use watch folders
    • Create and use droplets
      • Encode spatial video for Apple Vision Pro
      • Modify stereoscopic and spatial properties in Compressor
    • Work with 360-degree video
      • Modify audio tracks
      • Audio channel layouts
      • Add descriptive audio
      • Import captions
      • Edit caption properties
      • Adjust caption timing
      • Export captions
      • Use deinterlacing
      • Use reverse telecine
      • Build an iTunes Store package
      • Build an HDR package
      • Build a stereo-3D package
      • Work with burned-in text
      • Build an IMF package
      • Build an HDR package
      • Create Compressor instances
      • Transcode with multiple computers
      • Configure file sharing
      • Submit a job to Compressor in Terminal
      • Common command options
      • Change 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
  • Glossary
  • Copyright and trademarks

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