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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:

  • Create a source file that contains a set of image sequence files

  • Create a source file that contains surround sound files

  • Create a media package for submission to the iTunes Store

  • Modify an output file’s frame size

  • Modify an output file’s frame rate

  • View or modify audio tracks associated with a source file

  • Add effects to video or audio

  • Add metadata to an output file

  • Set a poster frame or add markers

  • Transcode a portion of a source file

This chapter also provides examples of three common transcoding workflows:

  • How to create a file with burned-in timecode

  • How to convert NTSC or PAL footage to 24p HD

  • How to create daily review copies of footage

  • Compressor basics
    • What is Compressor?
    • Compressor workflow
    • Interface overview
  • Simple transcoding
    • Overview
    • Transcode files
    • Preview jobs
    • Built-in settings
    • Built-in destinations
    • Built-in locations
  • Advanced adjustments
    • Overview
    • Work with settings
      • Modify setting properties
      • Create custom settings
      • About formats and settings
      • Setting properties
        • Common Audio Formats
        • Dolby Digital
        • H.264 for Apple Devices
        • H.264 for Blu-ray
        • Image Sequence
        • MP3
        • MPEG-2
        • MPEG-4
        • QuickTime Export Components
        • QuickTime Movie
    • Work with destinations
      • Modify destination properties
      • Create custom destinations
    • Work with locations
    • Work with jobs
      • Overview
      • Modify job properties
      • Job properties
        • Standard media
        • Image sequence
        • Surround sound
      • Work with job actions
        • Add and modify job actions
        • Job action properties
    • Work with batches
  • Advanced tasks
    • Overview
    • Work with image sequence files
    • Work with surround sound files
      • Import and modify surround sound files
      • About audio channels
    • Create iTunes Store packages
      • Overview
      • About short names and vendor IDs
      • Build iTunes Store packages
      • About submitting to the iTunes Store
    • Modify frame size
      • Overview
      • Crop or pad the video frame
    • Modify frame rate
      • Overview
      • Retime video and audio
      • Modify timing and frame rate
      • About deinterlacing
      • About reverse telecine
    • View and modify source audio channels
    • Add video and audio effects
      • Add and remove effects
      • Video effects
      • Audio effects
    • Add metadata
    • Set a poster frame
    • Add markers
    • Transcode time ranges
    • Common transcoding workflows
      • Example: Add timecode
      • Example: Convert to 24p HD
      • Example: Create dailies
  • Work smarter
    • Overview
    • Compressor preferences
      • Overview
      • General
      • My Computer
      • Shared Computers
      • Advanced
    • Keyboard shortcuts
      • Built-in keyboard shortcuts
      • Customize keyboard shortcuts
        • View keyboard shortcuts
        • Modify keyboard shortcuts
        • Export and import command sets
    • Create and use droplets
    • Create Compressor instances
    • Transcode Final Cut Pro and Motion projects
    • Use distributed processing
      • Transcode with multiple computers
      • Manually configure file sharing
      • Use the command line
        • Overview
        • Synopsis
        • Command options
        • Example: Compressor commands
  • Glossary
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