Apple Compressor 3 - Manual (Page 293)

You can create automatic post-transcoding actions and apply them to jobs and settings
(and thereby also individual targets). Post-transcoding actions simplify and accelerate
your day-to-day workflow and make it easy to share your work with others. You can
quickly create and deliver output media files for the iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, MobileMe,
DVD, Blu-ray Disc, the web, and YouTube without having to open any additional
applications. You can also automatically send emails giving notice of when individual
output media files are completed. And you can trigger Automator workflows for individual
jobs and trigger AppleScript documents for individual targets.
This chapter covers the following:
• Working with Post-Transcoding Actions (p. 293)
• Adding Setting Actions (p. 293)
• Adding Job Actions (p. 297)
Working with Post-Transcoding Actions
Compressor supports both job actions and setting actions. Job actions apply to entire jobs.
Job actions are often associated with batch templates. (For more information about batch
templates, see
Quick and Easy Compressor Workflow: Batch Template Method .) Setting
actions apply to individual settings (and thereby, also individual targets). You can save
settings that have setting actions applied as custom settings for future use.
Adding Setting Actions
Compressor can send an email to one recipient per applied preset setting, giving notice
of when a transcode is complete. You can also add one AppleScript script per applied
setting. This gives you some post-transcoding options for your output media file, such
as creating a script in AppleScript for adding metadata to a QuickTime file, or creating a
watched folder and having the transcoding process start automatically whenever new
source media files are dropped into the folder.
You apply script actions with the Actions pane in the Inspector.
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