Apple Compressor (4.0) - Manual (Page 103)

Chapter 5 Custom settings and output formats 103
Create Common Audio Formats settings
When you choose Common Audio Formats as your output format, you can only create audio
settings (because it’s an audio-only format).
Create a Common Audio Formats setting
1 In the Settings tab, select a setting or create a new setting by choosing Common Audio Formats
from the Create a New Setting (+) pop-up menu.
2 Choose an audio format from the "File type" pop-up menu in the Common Audio Formats
Encoder pane of the Inspector window.
3 Do one of the following:
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To configure settings automatically: Automatic mode is on by default, so do nothing. In automatic
mode, Compressor determines the number of channels, the sample rate, and the sample size
based on the source file, and the “Channel layout,” “Sample rate,” and “Sample size” pop-up
menus are dimmed. When the automatic mode is off, you can manually configure these settings.
Automatic button
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To configure settings manually: Click the Automatic button to turn automatic mode off, and
then choose from the following options:
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Extension: This field displays the file extension after you choose an audio format from the
“File type” pop-up menu.
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Allow Job Segmenting: This checkbox allows you to turn off job segmenting. Because job
segmenting isn’t used for audio-only encodes, this checkbox is dimmed with the Common
Audio Formats. For more information, see
Job segmenting and two-pass or multi-pass
encoding on page 249.
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Channel layout: Choose the number of channels (Mono, Stereo, or 5.1).
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Sample rate: Choose from the available sample rates (32000, 44100, 48000, 96000, 176400,
or 192000).
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Sample size: Choose from the available sample sizes (16, 24, or 32).
4 Click Save.