Document Outline

• Compressor User Guide
• Contents
• Chapter 1:  Compressor basics
  • What is Compressor?
  • Compressor workflow overview
  • Compressor window overview
  • Manage Compressor windows
  • Compressor terms
• Chapter 2:  Compressor workflows
  • Quick and easy batch template workflow
  • Manual batch processing workflow
  • Custom transcoding workflow
• Chapter 3:  Import source media
  • Importing overview
  • Create a batch
  • Add source media files
    • Add standard source media files to batches
    • Add surround sound source media files to batches
    • Add image sequences to batches
    • Add metadata to source media files
    • Inspector window
  • Batch window
• Chapter 4:  Assign settings and preview media
  • Settings overview
  • Assign settings
    • Assign settings to source media
    • Replace an assigned setting with a different setting
    • Modify an assigned setting
  • Create custom settings
    • Create and modify settings
    • Share settings
    • About the Automatic settings
    • Example: Create custom groups and settings for DVD
    • Inspector panes
  • Use markers and poster frames
    • Markers and poster frames overview
    • Manually add and remove markers
    • Add compression or podcast markers
    • Plain text chapter marker lists
    • Set the poster frame
  • Preview media
    • Previewing overview
    • Preview media as source or with settings applied
    • Transcode a portion of a clip
    • Preview window
• Chapter 5:  Custom settings and output formats
  • Custom settings and output formats overview
  • iTunes and Apple device output
    • iTunes and Apple device output overview
    • Create H.264 settings
  • Create Blu-ray discs
  • Dolby Digital Professional files
    • Dolby Digital overview
    • Convert stereo audio to Dolby Digital Professional format
    • Assign files to surround sound channels
    • Dolby Digital Professional Encoder pane
    • Spatial mixing options
  • MPEG-2 files
    • MPEG-2 overview
    • Create MPEG-2 files
    • MPEG-2 Encoder pane
    • MPEG-2 bit rates and formats
    • About GOPs (groups of pictures)
  • AIFF files
    • AIFF overview
    • Create AIFF settings
  • Common Audio Formats files
    • Common Audio Formats overview
    • Create Common Audio Formats settings
  • MP3 files
    • MP3 overview
    • MP3 transcoding workflow
    • Create MP3 settings
  • MPEG-1 files
    • MPEG-1 overview
    • About system and elementary streams
    • MPEG-1 specifications
    • Create MPEG-1 files for the web
    • Create MPEG-1 video for DVD
    • Create MPEG-1 audio for DVD
    • MPEG-1 Encoder pane
  • MPEG-4 files
    • MPEG-4 Part 2 overview
    • MPEG-4 Part 2 default settings
    • Create MPEG-4 Part 2 settings
    • Create settings for an audio podcast
  • QuickTime movie files
    • QuickTime movie overview
    • QuickTime video codecs
    • QuickTime audio codecs
    • Create QuickTime media files
  • QuickTime Export Components files
    • QuickTime Export Components overview
    • Create QuickTime Export Components settings
  • DV Stream files
    • DV overview
    • Create DV Stream settings
  • Create image sequence files
• Chapter 6:  Assign destinations and submit batches
  • Jobs, targets, and batches overview
  • Work with destinations
    • Destinations overview
    • Assign destinations
    • Create and modify destinations
    • If a warning triangle appears
    • Destinations tab and Inspector
  • Set up targets and jobs
    • Set up targets
    • Add and copy jobs
    • Chain jobs
  • Submit batches
    • Submit a batch
    • View batch information in the History window
• Chapter 7:  Advanced functions
  • Add filters
    • Filters overview
    • Add and adjust filters
    • Video filters
    • Audio filters
    • Color output
  • Work with frame controls
    • Frame controls overview
    • Apply frame controls to a setting
    • Frame Controls pane
    • About deinterlacing
    • About reverse telecine
    • About retiming
  • Modify geometry settings
    • Geometry overview
    • Crop, scale, and change frame dimensions
    • Geometry pane
  • Add post-transcoding actions
    • Post-transcoding actions overview
    • Add setting actions
    • Add job actions
    • Job Action tab
  • Use Droplets
    • Create Droplets
    • Use Droplets for transcoding media
    • Droplet window
  • Use Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5 with Compressor
  • Use the command line to submit Compressor jobs
    • Shell commands overview
    • Synopsis
    • Command options
    • Example: Compressor commands
  • Compressor preferences
    • Set Compressor preferences
    • Preferences window
• Chapter 8:  Use Apple Qmaster to set up a distributed processing system
  • What is Apple Qmaster?
  • Distributed processing systems
    • Distributed processing overview
    • Distributed processing basics
    • Distributed processing setup guidelines
    • Examples of distributed processing systems
    • Additional components of a distributed processing network
    • How the Apple Qmaster system distributes batches
  • Create service nodes and cluster controllers
    • Creating service nodes and cluster controllers overview
    • Quickly set up a service node using This Computer Plus
    • Set up a cluster controller using QuickClusters
  • Advanced service node and cluster controller information
    • Use nodes without Compressor installed
    • Enable managed and unmanaged services
    • Schedule service availability
    • Use virtual clusters to make the most of multicore computers
    • Turn cluster controller services on or off
    • Set a service password for including a computer in a cluster
    • Use cluster storage
    • Rendering services and shared storage setup
    • Use distributed processing with Shake
    • Recovery and failure notifications
  • Process a batch
    • Batch processing overview
    • Submit a batch of files from Compressor
    • Submit a batch of Shake files using Apple Qmaster
    • Submit a batch of Maya files using Apple Qmaster
    • Submit a batch of files using the Generic Render command in Apple Qmaster
  • Advanced rendering information
    • Set environment variables in Apple Qmaster
    • Manage Shake media files on a shared volume
    • Shake plug-in dialog
    • Generic Render dialog
    • Use Mental Ray for Maya
    • Use Apple Qmaster to submit UNIX commands
    • Job segmenting and two-pass or multi-pass encoding
    • Example: Submit After Effects batches with the Generic Render command
  • Apple Qmaster window
    • Apple Qmaster window
  • Apple Qmaster Sharing window
    • Setup pane of the Apple Qmaster Sharing window
    • Advanced pane of the Apple Qmaster Sharing window
  • Set Apple Qmaster preferences
• Chapter 9:  Use Apple Qadministrator to create and modify clusters
  • What is Apple Qadministrator?
  • Open Apple Qadministrator
  • Create and modify a cluster
  • Monitor cluster activity
  • Set Apple Qadministrator preferences
• Chapter 10:  Keyboard shortcuts
  • Compressor keyboard shortcuts