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Chapter 3

The Compressor Interface

Presets Window

The Presets window has two tabs: Settings and Destinations. Settings allows you to
centrally manage Apple and custom settings. Destinations allows you to create, modify,
or remove destination settings, set a default destination, and add file identifiers to your
output media filename.

Settings Tab

You use the Settings tab in the Presets window together with the Inspector window to
create and modify settings, decide exactly which settings you want to use to transcode
your source media file, and which output format you want the transcoded file
converted to.

To open the Settings tab,

1

Do one of the following:

 Choose Window > Presets.
 Press Command-2.

2

Click the Settings tab.

The Settings tab contains the Settings table (which displays existing settings), and
buttons to create, remove, and duplicate settings and groups (folders), as well as a
button to create Droplets.

Settings table