Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1793)

This chapter covers the following:
• About Compressor (p. 1793)
• Using Compressor with Final Cut Pro (p. 1794)
• Using Compressor as a Standalone Application (p. 1795)
• Sending from Final Cut Pro to Compressor (p. 1797)
• About Color Space Conversion in Compressor (p. 1798)
Compressor is a high-quality MPEG and QuickTime video encoder you can use to create
a variety of formats for DVD or web distribution.
About Compressor
Compressor is a video and audio encoding application that you can use to create media
files for online and DVD distribution. The main features in Compressor are described in
the following sections.
Video and Audio Encoding
Compressor can convert QuickTime movies to the following formats:
• For DVD: MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (both SD and HD), H.264, and AC-3 (for audio)
• For the web: MPEG-1, MPEG-4, and H.264
• For iPod: H.264
Note: The H.264 format is stored as a QuickTime movie containing an H.264 video track.
Performing Standards Conversion
Compressor includes a high-quality standards and format conversion feature that can be
used to:
• Convert a video from NTSC to PAL or vice versa with minimal frame rate artifacts.
• Create both standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) versions of a project. For
example, you can export an HD sequence in Final Cut Pro to both HD and SD MPEG
files for HD and SD DVD releases.
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