Compressor 4.1 Essential Training

Discover how to compress video and get it ready for publishing in Compressor, and learn about key compression concepts, from transcoding to codec types.

Introduction

• Introduction
• What is Compressor?
• Understanding data rates, with little to no math

1. Interface Overview

• The Preview and Batch windows
• Overview of settings, jobs, and destinations
• Understanding the Inspector

2. Basic Workflows

• Send to Compressor from Final Cut Pro X
• Dragging and dropping, and importing QuickTime files
• Adding a setting to a batch
• Adding a job to a batch

3. Understanding and Customizing the Apple Hardware Templates

• Building a DVD
• Customizing the DVD setting
• Building a Blu-ray or AVCHD disc
• Customizing the Blu-ray setting
• Adding chapter markers for optical devices
• Using the Apple preset for iPads, iPhones, and Apple TVs
• Custom output for Android devices

4. Online Publishing

• Publishing using the YouTube preset
• Publishing using the Vimeo preset
• Publishing using the Facebook preset
• Creating custom publishing for CNN iReport, Tudou, or Youku
• Improving the online presets by matching sequence dimensions

5. HTTP Streaming

• What is HTTP streaming?
• Examining the HTTP streaming settings

6. Podcasting

• Audio podcasting
• Video podcasting

7. Other Useful Outputs

• Transcoding to ProRes
• Doing an SD-to-HD upconversion
• Building a PowerPoint or Keynote output
• Building an AIFF converter
• Creating an email setting

8. Basic Video Effects

• Adding a fade-in or fade-out
• Using noise reduction
• Adding a text overlay
• Adding a timecode generator
• Adding a watermark

9. Automating and Customizing Compressor

• Adjusting the preferences for a default setting and location
• Adding custom locations
• Using in and out marks
• Saving presets
• Customizing and saving job templates along with custom metadata
• Viewing the history and recycling completed outputs
• Using instances to speed up Compressor

10. Droplets

• Building a droplet
• Customizing droplets

Conclusion

• Goodbye