Submit a job to Compressor in Terminal
If you’re accustomed to doing your work from Terminal shells, you can run the Compressor application from the command line using the Compressor command. There are a number of command-line options for submitting jobs.
Below is a synopsis of the Compressor command for submitting a job for transcoding. Angle brackets < > indicate a mandatory argument in a command, and brackets [ ] indicate an optional argument. The Compressor command is located in <PATH>/Compressor.app/Contents/MacOS.
Important: The command below must be executed on one line.
Compressor [-computergroup <name>] [-batchname <name>] [-priority <value>] -jobpath <file>[?frameRate=<frame rate> |?audio=<file>|?frameRate=<frame rate>\&audio=<file>] -settingpath <path> -locationpath <file> [-info <xml>] [-scc <file>] [-startoffset <hh:mm:ss:ff>] [-in <hh:mm:ss:ff> [-out <hh:mm:ss:ff> [-annotations <file>] [-chapters <file>]Compressor -checkstream <file>Compressor -findletterbox <file>Compressor -helpCompressor [-resetBackgroundProcessing [cancelJobs]] [-sharing <on|off>] [[-requiresPassword <password>] | [-noPassword]] [-instances <value>] [-networkInterface <bsd name>] [-portRange <starting port> <count>]These three arguments are the minimum required to submit a job:
Compressor ‑jobpath <path> ‑settingpath <path> ‑locationpath <path>Important: If you’re using an image sequence as a source file, you must use a URL for the path in -jobpath.
Here’s an example of code you would use to submit a Compressor job:
/Applications/Compressor.app/Contents/MacOS/Compressor -batchname "My First Batch" -jobpath ~/Movies/ MySource.mov -settingpath ~/Library/Application\ Support/Compressor/Settings/Apple\ Devices\ HD\ \ (Custom\).cmprstng -locationpath ~/Movies/MyOutput.m4vWhat this command does:
Identifies where Compressor is located
Assigns the batch name “My First Batch” (The quotation marks are used because of the spaces.)
Finds the file “MySource.mov” for the job at ~/Movies
Uses the “Apple Devices HD (Custom)” preset at ~/Library/Application\ Support/Compressor/Presets (The “\” character is used to retain the space in “Application Support.”)
Writes the output file, “MyOutput.m4v,” to the ~/Movies folder
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