Apple Compressor 3 - Manual (Page 9)

Compressor is an essential part of the video compression process. It makes compression
fast, efficient, and convenient, giving you more options in your choices of compression
settings and output formats.
This preface covers the following:
• About Compressor (p. 9)
• About the Compressor Documentation (p. 9)
• Additional Resources (p. 10)
About Compressor
Compressor is targeted at video postproduction professionals and compressionists who
require high performance and maximum control over the final digital content for DVD
authoring, streaming media servers, and wireless devices.
Compressor gives you resizing, cropping, image processing, encoding, and delivery
options, and offers batch processing, VBR options, and H.264 encoding. You can also use
Droplets and AppleScript, specify and save transcode settings, use filters, specify
destinations, and more. Compressor also provides a variety of output formats for Apple
Devices, DVD, web, CD, and kiosk.
About the Compressor Documentation
Compressor comes with various documents that will help you get started as well as
provide detailed information about the application. (To access onscreen help for
Compressor, open Compressor and choose Help > Compressor Help.)
• Compressor User Manual: This is a comprehensive document that describes the
Compressor interface, commands, and menus and gives step-by-step instructions for
using Compressor and accomplishing specific tasks. It is written for users of all levels
of experience.
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