Apple Compressor 3 - Manual (Page 317)

• Click the Batch Item selection buttons until the clip with a setting appears in the pop-up
menu.
• Select the clip’s setting in its job in the Batch window.
Both Source and Setting (Output) View buttons are active so you can switch between
these two views. Because you selected a setting, you can use the split screen slider and
cropping boundary in the Preview window.
3 Click the Setting view button in the upper-right corner of the Preview window.
4 Choose a Preview screen size from the Preview Scale pop-up menu, or drag the Preview
window handle to a size you like.
This does not affect the display frame size of the actual output media file. That can only
be set from the Geometry pane in the Inspector window.
Note: When you adjust the frame size of a setting (in the Geometry pane) while you are
viewing it in the Preview window, the frame size may not resize accordingly. If this occurs,
select Sample Movie or a different target from the Batch Item pop-up menu and then
select this target again. It will display the correct frame size.
5 Drag the split screen slider left or right across the top of the screen to move the split
screen divider over more or less of the transcoded portion of the clip.
6 Use the cropping boundary to adjust the display frame size of your output media file.
Cropping boundary
and handles
Split screen slider
Split screen divider
Cropping dimensions
(also seen in Source
Inset fields in the
Geometry pane)
Source and Setting
View buttons
Batch Item
pop-up menu
7 Check the results of your cropping by clicking the Source and Setting View buttons.
317 Chapter 26 Using the Preview Window