Apple Compressor 3 - Manual (Page 270)

Important: Frame Controls settings cannot be previewed in the Preview window. To
preview Frame Controls settings, do a test transcode of a small section of your source
media file. (See
Transcoding a Portion of the Clip with the Preview Window for more
information.)
Use the following features in the Frame Controls pane of the Inspector to select and
adjust frame controls attributes that you want to assign to your settings.
Resizing controls
Retiming controls
Frame Controls pop-up
menu
Automatic button
Frame Controls Area
Use this pop-up menu to enable or disable the Frame Controls feature. Use the
corresponding Automatic button to enable or disable automatic mode.
Frame Controls
Automatic button
• Frame Controls pop-up menu: Use this pop-up menu to enable or disable the Frame
Controls pane.
• Off: The default setting for most Apple presets. Choose Off if your Compressor project
does not involve changes to the frame size, frame rate, or field dominance.
• On: Allows you to manually adjust all the attributes in the Frame Controls pane.
• Automatic button: When this button is selected, Compressor analyzes the transcoding
job (the source media file and the applied setting), and then automatically determines
the appropriate Frame Controls attributes. For more information, see
About the
Automatic Settings .
In Automatic mode, Frame Controls technology is engaged in the following two types
of transcodes only:
• Transcoding from high definition (HD) sources to standard definition (SD) MPEG-2
output files
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