Discover how to compress video and get it ready for publishing in Compressor, and learn about key compression concepts, from transcoding to codec types.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Introduction
- What is Compressor?
- Understanding data rates, with little to no math
- The Preview and Batch windows
- Overview of settings, jobs, and destinations
- Understanding the Inspector
- 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
- 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
- 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
- What is HTTP streaming?
- Examining the HTTP streaming settings
- Audio podcasting
- Video podcasting
- Transcoding to ProRes
- Doing an SD-to-HD upconversion
- Building a PowerPoint or Keynote output
- Building an AIFF converter
- Creating an email setting
- Adding a fade-in or fade-out
- Using noise reduction
- Adding a text overlay
- Adding a timecode generator
- Adding a watermark
- 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
- Building a droplet
- Customizing droplets
- Goodbye
Taught by
Jeff I. Greenberg