Apple Compressor (4.0) User Manual

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Chapter 4

Assign settings and preview media

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Choose Edit from the Marker pop-up menu (or press Command-E).

A dialog for editing the marker appears.

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Choose Compression or Podcast from the Type pop-up menu.

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in the Name field, enter a name for the marker.

Note: Podcast marker names do not appear in the output.

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To add a link, enter an Internet address in the URL field.

When viewing the output, you can click the URL to open a web browser and view the URL’s
website.

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To assign an image to the chapter marker, choose one of the following from the Image

pop-up menu:

Frame in source: By default, the frame displayed is the frame on which the marker is placed. To
use a different frame as the image, enter a different timecode value.

From File: Drag an image to the image well. You can also click Choose to open a file-selection
dialog and select a still-image file to assign to the marker.

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Click OK.

The marker in the timeline changes to blue if it’s a compression marker, or red if it’s a podcast
marker. You can use the Move to Previous Marker and Move to Next Marker buttons to select
other markers in the timeline to edit.
You can also import a chapter marker list. These lists can be in either the QuickTime TeXML format
(an XML-based format for constructing 3GPP-compliant timed text tracks in a QuickTime movie file)
or a plain text chapter list file. For information, see

Plain text chapter marker lists

on page 51.

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