Apple Compressor (4.1.2) - Manual (Page 61)

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Advanced tasks overview
You can customize your workflow by making specific adjustments to applied settings. This
chapter covers practical information and techniques you can use to do the following:
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Create a source file that contains a set of image sequence files
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Create a source file that contains surround sound files
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Modifiy an ouput file’s frame size
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Modify an output file’s frame rate
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Learn about audio channels
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Add effects to video or audio
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Add metadata to an ouput file
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Set a poster frame or add markers
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Transcode a portion of a source file
This chapter also provides examples of three common transcoding workflows:
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How to create a file with burned-in timecode
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How to convert NTSC or PAL footage to 24p HD
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How to create daily review copies of footage
Work with image sequence files
You can import a sequence of still images into Compressor as an image sequence source file.
Each image in the image sequence represents a single video frame.
Import a set of image sequence files
1 Do one of the following:
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At the bottom of the batch area, choose Add Image Sequence from the Add pop-up menu
, select a folder of image sequence files, and then click Add.
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Drag all of the image sequence files (not a folder that contains the files) from the Finder into
the batch area.
A new source media file appears in a job in the batch area.
2 Click the Add Outputs button under the source media file, and then choose a transcode setting
and save location in the window that appears.
The job now contains a source file made of sequential images and output instructions (a setting,
a save location, and an output filename).
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