Apple Compressor 2 - Manual (Page 183)

Chapter 13 Creating QuickTime Export Component, AIFF, and TIFF Files 183
Creating TIFF Output Files
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) is one of the most common and flexible still-image
formats, and was developed to create a standard file format for storing and exchanging
digital graphics used in desktop publishing. It is compatible with a wide range of
compositing and image processing applications. Use this encoder to convert a video
clip to an image sequence for use with compositing applications that aren’t compatible
with QuickTime.
About the TIFF Encoder Pane
The TIFF Encoder pane contains the following items to help you create your TIFF
output file:
 File Extension: This field displays the TIFF file extension (tiff ) automatically after TIFF
output format is selected from the File Format pop-up menu or the ( + ) pop-up
menu in the Settings tab of the Presets window. Don’t alter this field.
 Allow Job segmenting: This checkbox allows you to turn off job segmenting. It is only
relevant if you are using Compressor with distributed processing and with two pass
or multi-pass encoding. (The Compressor 2 distributed processing feature is limited
to computers that have either Final Cut Studio or DVD Studio Pro 4 installed.) For
more information, see “
Job Segmenting and Two Pass VBR ” on page 136.
 Frame Rate (fps): Use this field and pop-up menu to enter the frame rate at which you
want the TIFF still images to be created. The higher the frame rate, the greater the
number of still images created and the larger the output file. For example, if you
choose 30 fps, Compressor creates 30 still images for every second of the video clip you
are transcoding. If you choose 8 fps, Compressor only creates 8 still images per second.
File Format pop-up
menu
Choose a frame rate
from the Frame Rate
pop-up menu.