Apple Compressor 2 - Manual (Page 47)

Chapter 3 The Compressor Interface 47
Geometry Pane
You use the options in the Geometry pane to crop and size the media file being
compressed, and set its aspect ratio.
 Source inset (Cropping): Use any of the four fields to enter the number of pixels by
which you want to reduce the source media file size.
 Frame size: Use this pop-up menu or these fields to create an appropriate output
frame size and aspect ratio for your output media file.
 Pixel aspect: Use this pop-up menu to set width and height values to conform to a
designated pixel aspect ratio.
 Constrain to display aspect: Use this pop-up menu to calculate the output height or
width values.
For more information about the Geometry pane, see “ About the Geometry Pane ” on
page 201.