Work smarter overview

This chapter covers information and techniques to help you work more efficiently in Compressor, including how to:

• Customize application preferences

• Use keyboard shortcuts

• Create and use droplets—standalone applications that let you transcode media files in the Finder, by dragging and dropping

• Use Compressor with Final Cut Pro X and Motion

• Use distributed processing to transcode files with a network of shared computers

• Enable one or more instances of Compressor to increase processing power on a single computer