Compressor 3.5 - Technical Specifications

Minimum System Requirements

  • Mac computer with an Intel processor

  • 1GB of RAM (2GB of RAM recommended when working with compressed HD and uncompressed SD sources; 4GB of RAM recommended when working with uncompressed HD sources)

  • ATI or NVIDIA graphics processor. Integrated Intel graphics processors are not supported except the Intel HD Graphics 3000.

  • 128MB of VRAM

  • Display with 1280-by-800 resolution or higher

  • Mac OS X v10.5.6 or later

  • QuickTime 7.6 or later

  • DVD drive for installation

  • For burning Blu-ray discs: a Blu-ray recorder

High-Performance Encoding

  • H.264 multi-pass encoding for Blu-ray discs and files

  • Support for red laser burning of AVCHD discs for playback in compatible Blu-ray players

  • H.264 for Apple devices, web, mobile devices

  • HD DVD encoding for DVD Studio Pro authoring

  • Support for image sequence sources: TIFF, Targa, DPX, JPEG, and OpenEXR

  • Support for encoding to TIFF, Targa, DPX, JPEG, and OpenEXR image sequences

    • Full QuickTime support

    • MPEG-2 encoding

    • MPEG-1 encoding

    • MPEG-4 encoding

    • Distributed encoding with segmentation options

    • Two-pass VBR encoding for MPEG-2

    • Provides 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

  • 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

    • Run Automator Workflow

    • Publish to YouTube

  • 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

    • 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

    • Four audio filters: dynamic range; peak limiter; Apple: AUGraphicEQ and fade in/out

    • Automatic post to FTP

    • Reverse telecine

    • Deinterlacing

  • Enhanced droplets for easy desktop encoding

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 sound

  • Automatically creates 2.0 or 5.1 based on 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